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main founder and CEO
Mael 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
co-founder and CTO, information retrieval expert
Alessandro 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.
co-founder and CTO, computer vision expert
Jean-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 Pensylvenia (UPenn), Philadelphie, 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 content analysis.
software and Interaction Engineer
Vincent 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.
business development manager
Philippe 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.

Other main contributors:
 
senior developer at Idiap Research Institute
Olivier Bornet has received his engineer degree from EINEV (Ecole d'Ingenieurs de lEtat de Vaud, now know as heig-vd) in 1989. He joined Idiap in 1994 and has been active in projects with industrial partners. He contributed in the information retrieval development.

 
former research engineer at Idiap Research Institute
Darren Moore is a research scientist at CSIRO, Australia. He holds Bachelors degrees in engineering and information technology, and a research Masters degree from the Queensland University of Technology. After completing his Masters degree in 2000, he worked for one year at Motorola as an embedded software engineer, before moving to Switzerland to work at the Idiap Research Institute. He contributed in the development of the digital multimedia capture component.

Contact us
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  Klewel Sarl
  P.O Box 609
  Rue Marconi 19
  CH-1920 MARTIGNY
  Switzerland

  tel. +41 27 721 77 64
  fax +41 27 721 77 12

  contact@klewel.com

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