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Prof. Dr. Christopher L. Tucci Professor and Chair of Corporate Strategy & Innovation (CSI) create your own visited countries map
EPFL - CSI Phone: +41/21 693 0021 Ms. Alexandra von Schack Alexandra von Schack obtained her master degree in Geography at the University of Bern in 2003. During her studies, she specialized in urban studies, sustainable development and socio-political geography. Before joining EPFL in 2004, Ms. von Schack gained professional experience in several fields such as energy management, Local Agenda 21 and sustainable mobility. She has also followed different Swiss cities in their process of obtaining the European Energy Award.
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Lara Rossi works on various research projects of the CSI Chair, as a Coordinator, and Communications specialist. Projects include for example research in the mining industry (Europe and Brazil), promotion of the College's Masters worldwide, and organization of conferences or events. She also helps the team on a ponctual basis for the ongoing administrative cycle of the chair. Lara started working at EPFL in 2006 as Coordinator of the SHS program in Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship (Bachelor and Master course for EPFL ingeneer students). Her areas of studies are languages (Maturité Fédérale italien 1998), then Marketing (diplôme SAWI de Généraliste Marketing 1999) and finally PR & Communications (Brevet fédéral de Spécialiste en relations publiques, 2003). Lara works part time as communications consultant in her area, PR. She funded her free-lance Bureau, BELUGA RP & Promotion in 2006. Her expertise includes media relations, PR concepts, internal and external communications and teaching (Media Communications course at the ESM School of Management and Communication in Geneva). Before EPFL, Lara worked with Covance pharmaceutical lab (1999-2001 Geneva), Philip Morris International (2001-2003 Lausanne and Munich), Darwel SA (2004-2006 Darwel PR agency Lausanne).
Mr. Vincent Nassar
Phone: +41/21 693 2452 After
having earned an Executive MBA in Management of Technology, Tilo Peters has
chosen to continue his studies at EPFL in order to further explore issues of
patent and innovation strategy. As a PhD
candidate, he will be working under the guidance of Prof. Christopher Tucci at
the Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation.
Tilo
brings a diverse experiential background in small business and start-up
companies with him that covers a variety of industries, everything from
computers to maritime operations to wine making. More recently, he has been active as a
researcher in the aerospace industry, participating the European Space
Authority study on Emerging Markets and Future Trends in Telecommunication. As member of a team working with SES Astra,
he was one of the authors of the that was prepared for
the Government of Luxembourg. He was
also a contributor to the Study on Opportunities for Satcom Solutions Providing
a Return Link to GNSS Applications, part of the LuxLAUNCH Program, a national
support measure for innovation and research in Luxembourg. As a project manager and researcher, Tilo has
provided research assistance to a variety of companies in the aerospace industry,
including ND SatCom, Nokia-Siemens Networks, SES Astra, and EuroTeleServ. Tilo
has been active with start-up companies in the computer technology industry, as
well as in the service and machining technology industries. He spent ten years
working in the maritime industry, where he was active in fleet logistics,
maintenance, and operations. He attended the University of Texas at Austin for
several years prior to completing his Bachelors degree in Business Management
at University of Phoenix. Although
he is of Swiss descent, he grew up in California and has resided in six of the
United States as well as five other nations prior to relocating to Switzerland
in 2005 in order to pursue his goals in higher education. He now divides his
time between
FORMER MEMBERS
Dr. Bettina Bastian She obtained her Phd under the title: "Technological innovation strategy in natural resource based industries" in 2009.
Luca Berchicci worked as a Post-Doc researcher of Management of Technology at the Chair of Corporate Strategy and Innovation of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 2005 to 2007. He obtained his Ph.D. in Innovation Management at the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering of Delft University of Technology. The thesis focuses on development of radical products in different organizational settings with particular attention to the influence of environmental issues into the innovation process.
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Thomas holds a diploma in aerospace engineering from the University BW in Munich, where he graduated at the Center for Technology and Innovation Management in 2001. He has been working with Accenture for two years as an IT consultant in the European high-tech industry.
EPFL - CSI Mary Jean earned her doctorate degree in Economics at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Her doctoral thesis work was about the influence of climate and energy policy on private equity finance in the clean energy sector. She also earned a Masters of Engineering (M.E.) degree in Manufacturing Engineering for Advanced Transportation Systems from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gianluca Misuraca has been a Research Associate at the
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Jeffrey Petty worked at (CSI) as a research associate from September 2005 to August 2008. He obtained his PhD at HEC-UNIL under the title "A Study of Venture Capital Decision Making" in September 2008. Jeffrey has twenty years experience working in the government and private sectors and has an MBA in international management from Thunderbird.
Andrei Villarroel worked as a PhD Student at CSI from 2004 to 2008. He obtained his PhD under the title "Open Source Corporate Strategy (OSCS): Unveiling the Firm's Open Sources of Competitive Advantage" in July 2008.
He holds a master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University, and a communications systems engineering degree from EPFL.
EPFL - CSI Ms. Yang worked as a PhD Student at CSI from 2004 to 2008. She obtained her PhD under the title "e-Innovation and Financial Services" in July 2008. Yang Yang obtained her Bachelor Degree in Computer Science from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China and she received in 2004 her master degree in E-Business from the University of Wyoming, USA.
Dr. Cristiano Zazzara Dr. Zazzara worked as an external PhD student from 2004 to 2008 with Prof. Tucci. He received his PhD in July 2008 under the title "The Link Between Innovation and Finance: Evidence from Survey Data".
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