Core Competencies

• Experienced innovation manager, R&D executive and generalist.
• Innovator and inventor who understands and reconciles new technologies and services, economic constraints, the resource requirements and customer benefits.
• Pragmatic and situational leadership style.
• Experience in patent valuation and the IP licensing business.
• Successful completion of the certificate program "Essentials of Management" at the HSG.
• Training as QM Representative and Patent Engineer.
• Extensive knowledge of eligibility conditions, application procedures and the implementation of projects in EU Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation
• Working languages German, English and French.

Highlights

• Successful acquisition of venture capital.
• Successful cooperation with universities and research institutions in numerous CTI projects and European research projects.
• Experience in the fields of image processing, embedded systems, sensor technology, control engineering, robotics, mechatronics and software engineering.
• Successful development, industrialization and commercialization of intelligent cameras with innovative Random Pixel Access sensor.
• Design, conception, development and deployment of algorithms for video-based fire and smoke detection.
• Development of image processing algorithms for video-based person singularisation and for industrial applications such as process control and inspection.
• Development of algorithms for video-based fire and smoke detection systems.
• Design of a new generation of modular robotic arms with innovative double joints.
• Design of the control system for the world's largest injection test rig for heavy fuel oil engines.