Marc Gruber EPFL

Marc Gruber

Position: Vice President for Innovation at EPFL

Professor Marc Gruber is Vice President for Innovation at EPFL, full professor at the College of Management of Technology at EPFL where he holds the Chair of Entrepreneurship and Technology Commercialization (ENTC), and co-author of “Where to Play: 3 Steps for Discovering your most valuable Market Opportunities”, the latest addition to the lean startup toolset.

Marc also acted as Associate (2013-2016) and as Deputy Editor (2017-2020) at the Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), the highest ranked empirical research journal in the management domain. In an independent research study on the most impactful entrepreneurship scholars (Gupta et al., 2016), Marc was ranked as the worldwide #1 researcher in entrepreneurship for the 2005-2015 period (shared #1 spot), and among the worldwide top 5 for the 2000-2015 period.

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Jonas Vonlanthen

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Sarah fleury

EPFL Master Student in Management, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Mathieu Menet

Innovation Manager at La Ruche tl

Danella Alfaro

Marketing & Communications Manager - Knowledge Expert

Gael Close

Staff System Architect at Melexis

Shirah Foy

Postdoctoral Researcher - Entrepreneurship & Tech Commercialization at EPFL

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CEO at Noos Technologie inc.

Jennifer Löffler

Innovation Facilitator at itConcept srl

Hugo De Sousa

Managing Partner at UNSETTLED.TECH

Alban Vogel

Product Designer - Cleverdist SA

Srini Srinivasan

President - World Design Organization WDO

Marco D’Amico

Strategic Innovation Advisor at oobrain S.r.l. SB

Clemence de Robert

UX Designer

Mathilde Verdier

Social Innovation Strategist / UX/UI Designer in Training

Betina García Nogués

Founder & UX Lead

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Innovation Cell Manager at Fischer Connectors

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Managing Director - Iquro Development Group, LLC

Anja Borchhardt

Head of Experience Management at Helsana

Bruce Hecht

CEO/CTO at VG2PLAY

Olivier Petro

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Axel Pasqualini

Director at Apptitude SA

Loïc Volery

Looking for opportunities/ Bachelor of Business Administration (FR/DE), Focus Digital Business

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Head of Culture and Collaboration at MURAL

Olivier Chappuis

Innovation Lab Manager at Maxon

Dardan Iljazi

Full Stack Developer

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Directrice at Pulse Incubateur HES

Daniela Busse (Ph.D.)

Head of Research at eBay

Alex Osterwalder

Co-founder Strategyzer

Sabine Dufaux

Product Designer & Business Developer at Romande Energie

Simone Smyth

Design Strategist at Atomic

Benoît Dubouloz

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Director at Apptitude SA

Thomas Link

Creative Director - Namics

Emmanuelle Germond

Geek Human translator at CH-Open / PPVD / intergen

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Jean-Sébastien Daigle

Facilitator & Designer at JSdaigle

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Design System Lead - Brainly

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Marie Girard

Product Manager at IBM

Rémi Rivas

Consulting Designer at Rivas Consulting

Fran Navarro

Product Designer at Accedo

Jameel Somji

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Design Lead at Siemens

Michael Vuilleumier

Designer - User Experience & Interface - Apptitude SA