Adriana ArzaValdes

R&D Partnership-Innosuisse support project with ESL-EPFL

Adriana Arza was a Post-Doctoral researcher in the Embedded Systems Laboratory at EPFL. She is an automatic and electronic engineer specialized in the field of biomedical engineering, in particular, on energy-efficient algorithms and machine learning for health and wellness applications. Her expertise also covers energy-aware optimizations for multiparametric smart wearables and analisis and interperation of mulimodal physiological data. She is currently data architect.

Elisa Gagnepain

Archivist & 3d Modelling

Elisa Gagnepain, who gratuated from the University of Geneva in 2026, is a chemist. With a scientific and polymathic mind, she is particularly intersted in fundamental structures issues.

hesPV David Atienza Alonso

R&D Partnership-Innosuisse support project with ESL-EPFL

Prof. David Atienza leads the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL) at EPFL and  is Associate Vice-President of Research Centers & Platforms. He is an expert on the next-generation embedded systems for the Internet of Things, working for last 15 years on smart wearables both for humans and a wider range of other objects including cars. He focuses on how these objects can interact with each other to create new business opportunities – helping businesses be ready for these opportunities, and ESL has worked with more than 30 companies world-wide. His expertise also covers 2D/3D thermal modeling and management for multiprocessor system-on-chip, electronic design automation, and low-power hardware and software co-design. He has published more than 300 publications in this areas and has received several awards in these areas and since 2016 he is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Member of ACM.

Chantal Aubort Jaccard

Inventor & CEO

Chantal Aubort Jaccard is a swiss businesswoman, researcher, and the inventor of Tégrégé’s concept that aims to measure the subjective feeling of the Passage of Time. Her academic background is interdisciplinary. She holds a master’s degree in law from the University of Lausanne, a postgraduate degree in European Global Studies from the European institute of Basel’s University, and a private pilote licence for small aircrafts..

She is also the founder and administrator of Ecodroitconseils. a firm specialized in giving advice on business law, behavioral strategies and governance rules – as well as the company ECODT. Passionate about neuroscience, philosophy and the psychology of perceptions,  she created the concept of Tégrégé in 2011. She opens a new door in fundamental research. Now that the patent has been granted and the trademarks registered, she focused on the development and the launch of a « Time by own Design » watch-instrument that measures the duration of subjective time, a technological and societal journey touching upon watchmaking, medtech industry and conscience’s infrastructure.

All her work is dedicated to the development of harmonious relationships between human beings and to improving respect on quality of life on earth. She is very committed to the future of young generations in a world that is accelerating in all forms of complexity and at the heart of temporal challenges on human and cosmic issues. Since 2023, she has been an administrator of the association Chariot Magique, which provides playful, therapeutic, and relational care to hospitalized children.

She is currently preparing the production of the very first limited edition series of this unique and exclusive watch  – a time piece she has designed in the finest detail guided by the architecture of time and research efforts.

Marie-Laure Percassi

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

Dr. Marie-Laure Percassi studied law at the University of Neuchâtel, where she obtained a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree. She then went to London and completed a LLM at King’s College. After her studies she went back to Switzerland where she passed her bar exam in 2017, after having done a two year traineeship. In 2023, she obtained the title of Doctor of Law after successfully defending her PhD on the subject of representation by agreement in civil procedure (summa cum laude).

She currently works as an attorney-at-law and is specialized in the field of data protection and commercial law.

Antonio Rubino

Chief financial officer

After studies in business economics and a MBA in London, Antonio Rubino worked in a number of companies in leading positions: CEO at Switcher, Director Private Equity Holding at BCV, Audit manager at E&Y, Associate Corporate Finance at Dimension and Administrator of different companies. He has a very broad experience of auditing, due diligence and of industrial companies restructures. He is presently in charge of the Financial Advisory/Transactions Department at Mazars Switzerland.

Claude Clément

Member of scientific and technical advisory board

Claude Clément holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne (1979) and an MBA for HEC University of Lausanne (1990).
He did his first professional steps in the watch-making industry, focused on the development of new concepts of wrist worn wearable devices. In 1990, he took the responsibility of the diversification initiatives of the Swatch Group in the field of medical wearables.
Since 1993, Claude has taken various responsibilities in the industry of active implantable medical devices (long term implanted electronics), from manufacturing of pacemakers to the development of brain-computer interfaces. He joined Wyss Center as CTO in 2015. He is until June 2022 president of Bioalps, cluster of life sciences in western Switzerland.
Claude has a wide experience in the support to innovative start-ups in the field of human health.

Nadja Maillard

Member of scientific and technical advisory board

Après ses études en histoire (UNIL), puis en anthropologie (UNINE), Nadja Maillard a fondé le bureau de recherche Construire & Habiter avant de soutenir sa thèse en histoire de l’architecture à l’Ecole polytechnique de Lausanne où elle a obtenu le titre de docteure ès sciences summa cum laude. Elle adopte, dans tous ses travaux, une approche qui associe les méthodes développées par ses disciplines de formation qu’elle imprègne des enseignements d’autres domaines d’expression.
Nadja Maillard appréhende ses objets d’étude dans leurs composantes multiples, techniques et matérielles autant que symboliques. Elle signe de nombreux ouvrages, en tant qu’auteure ou directrice de publication. Les derniers en date sont une anthologie littéraire intitulée Questions d’échelle. Sans commune mesure (Actes Sud, 2018) et Isle of models. Architecture and scale (à paraître). Elle enseigne par ailleurs sur le thème : Ecrire | Construire, allers-retours, cours qui explore les interactions entre l’écriture et l’architecture.
Elle travaille à la Direction de la Section d’architecture de l’EPFL en tant que collaboratrice scientifique.

Open Position

Today, we are delighted to reinforce our executive team and excited to create a Pilot Position. We are presently looking for a Chief Time Officer. Time management, time norms and temporal well-being are also topics of enterprise governance. We whish to integrate our knowledge linked to the field of the measurement of perceived time and the luxury watch-instrument we currently develop at all guidance levels.
 How to highlight and enhance independant relational time propositions under static constraints is certainly a core challenge but YOU how would you define this function as Chief Time Officer?

We are looking forward to hearing from you!