Klewel France
30 avenue des Châtelets
CAP ENTREPRISES 1
F-22950 Trégueux
France
tel: +33 (0)66 343 37 41
fax: +33 (0)29 676 60 36
email:
30 avenue des Châtelets
CAP ENTREPRISES 1
F-22950 Trégueux
France
tel: +33 (0)66 343 37 41
fax: +33 (0)29 676 60 36
email:
Klewel Sarl (Headquarters)
P.O Box 609
Rue Marconi 19
CH-1920 MARTIGNY
Switzerland
tel: +41 (0)27 722 43 42
fax: +41 (0)27 721 77 12
email:
P.O Box 609
Rue Marconi 19
CH-1920 MARTIGNY
Switzerland
tel: +41 (0)27 722 43 42
fax: +41 (0)27 721 77 12
email:
History, values and team
Klewel is a spin-off of the Idiap Research Institute which is affiliated with EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
The term "Klewel" comes from the breton language: this is a contraction of two terms "Klevet" and "Gwelet" which respectively mean to "listen" and to "see".
The term "Klewel" comes from the breton language: this is a contraction of two terms "Klevet" and "Gwelet" which respectively mean to "listen" and to "see".
Maël GuillemotMain founder and CEOMael Guillemot holds a European Master of Science from the University of Rennes (France), including six months at the University of Barcelona and one year in the UK. He is laureate of the Swiss venture leaders 2008 and holds the "Passeport Bretagne pour Entreprendre". After 6 years of R&D experience at the Idiap Research Institute in the area of multimedia information management, he is the founder of the Swiss Klewel SARL
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David CapitaineManager of Klewel FranceDavid Capitaine is the director of Klewel France. He holds a Master degree from the National Brest Engineering school. He did his six-month Master internship in California, USA. He spent time traveling in Ireland and New Zealand. David participated to the development of the “Box” of Bouygues Telecom. After a past experience around IPTV at Thomson, Thales and France Telecom, he joined Klewel's team.
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Philippe RomascanoBusiness development managerPhilippe Romascano joined Klewel as Business Development manager. Philippe has 25 years experience in Sales and Marketing with Hewlett-Packard; he spent most of his career developing and managing distribution channels in Eastern Europe, Middle-East and Africa. His international management orientation allows him to have a wide expertise in various domains key to Klewel growth. Philippe is passionated by new technologies, especially computing, multimedia and social media.
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Vincent BozzoSoftware and Interaction EngineerVincent Bozzo holds a Master of Science MSc from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne. He did his 6 month EPFL Master Thesis at Klewel, designing and implementing an Adobe Flash tool for browsing and searching trough audio-visually captured conferences. He is now fully employed as "Software and Interaction Engineer" and works on the capture station software and the Flash conference player.
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Alessandro VinciarelliCo-founder, information retrieval expertAlessandro Vinciarelli holds a Ph.D. from the University of Bern (Switzerland), he is an expert in multimodal information retrieval. His main research interests focus on Sociometric Analysis of Media and Social Network Analysis. He participated in the 2001 and 2002 in summer internship programs of IBM Research in NewYork. He is the laureate of the 2002 Idiap best PhD student Award.
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Jean-Marc OdobezCo-founder, computer vision expertJean-Marc Odobez holds a Ph.D. from the University of Rennes1 (INRIA, France). The thesis work was on robust motion estimation and analysis in video (he holds 2 software patents on the topic). He performed a postdoctoral year at University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Philadelphia, USA, on video servoing, and then became assistant professor from 1996 to 2001 at the Université du Maine (le Mans, France). He joined Idiap in 2001. His main research interests are directed along developing statistical models and machine learning algorithms for: human tracking and activity analysis; image and scene representation modeling; sequence analysis and multimedia contents analysis.
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Partners
IDIAP Research Institutehttp://www.idiap.ch
Klewel collaborates with the Idiap Research Institute, a semi-private institute affiliated with EPFL.IdeArk, Incubator The Arkhttp://www.theark.ch
Klewel works with the help of Cimark coaches.IMDhttp://www.imd.ch
International Business School located in Lausanne, Switzerland. Two teams of Executive-MBAs are collaborating with Klewel, following the IMD 2008 Start-up competition.VentureLabhttp://www.venturelab.ch
Following the 2008 Venture Leaders competition.Montreux Convention Centerhttp://2m2c.ch
Collaboration with Pierre-Yves Nussbaum.CICGhttp://www.cicg.ch
The International Conference Centre GenevaRezonancehttp://www.rezonance.ch
Swiss networking agency.Amiandohttp://www.amiando.com
Event management.
Awards
Swiss Venture Leaders
Selection IMD E-MBA Start-ups
First price, Britanny Creation
European Seal of excellence CeBIT, Germany 











