Education

electrical engineering at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland

• dipl El Ing ETH
• Dr sc techn (ETH)

Native Language

German

Other Languages

English (fluent), French

Year of birth

1953

Professional Experience

• 1997 till today
  cnlab Information Technology Research AG, Rapperswil, Switzerland
  Founder, Partner and Managing Director

• 1994 – 1997
  Price Waterhouse Information Systems Risk Management (ISRM) Zurich, Switzerland
  Senior Manager

• 1993 - 1994
  Coopers & Lybrand
  IT Security Consulting in Zurich, Switzerland, Consultant

• 1991 - 1993
  GRETAG Data Systems AG, Regensdorf, Switzerland
  Head of research and development, member of the managing committee (since 1992)

• 1988 - 1991
  GRETAG Aktiengesellschaft, Regensdorf, Switzerland
  Head of R&D in the communication division
• 1986 - 1987
  GRETAG Aktiengesellschaft, Regensdorf, Switzerland
  Staff ´advanced engineering´ (communication division)
• 1985
  Institute for Signal and Information Processing, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  Scientific staff to Prof Dr JL Massey
• 1984
  IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, USA
  Post Doctoral Fellow at the TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA
• 1978 - 1983
  Institute for Communications Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  Assistant and Ph D student to Prof Dr P Leuthold