Pierre spent almost his entire career in the medical device field. He held key executive positions in companies such as Johnson & Johnson, Sulzer Medica, Intermedics SA and Institut Straumann AG. He successfully led different venture creations and exits as a co-founder and/or member of the Board of Directors. He is currently a member of the board of directors of several high tech companies and a lecturer at EPFL, IMD and CTI Entrepreneurship. Pierre brings his experience in the production, marketing & sales of the medical device.

Carole has 20+ years of business experience in investment banking at Credit Agricole where she held various management positions in trading, sales, marketing and strategic business development. In the course of her career, she developed close relationships with institutional clients in France and Switzerland. More recently, Carole has been working with Netmentora in Barcelona conducting due diligence and coaching in business development for the non-profit organization. Carole is also a mentor at the Masters in Technology and Entrepreneurship (MTS) at EPFL in Lausanne.

Aurélien holds a Master of Sciences in mechanical engineering and was initially in charge of the mechanical development of the device. In 2013 he had the privilege of working as a research collaborator in the Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation Service of CHUV. This clinical experience motivated him to bring the Lambda robot to the market. He was then co-investigator in the pilot clinical trial of the first prototype. Aurélien is also a lecturer in various medical device development courses for BAS, MAS and CAS students.

Yannick holds a Master of Sciences in engineering in industrial technologies and a CAS in CA/RA/QA for medical devices. He has implemented the initial motion control of the robot and led the development of the user interface. His expertise in assessment and risk management applied to medical electrical equipment allows safe development of products based on the standards in force to comply with european MDD and MDR. Yannick is also a lecturer in various medical device development and risk managment courses for BAS, MAS and CAS students.

Rolf trained as a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine in Geneva and London with a special interest in neurorehabilitation. He joined the Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) in 1995 where he created a unit for neurorehabilitation and started to work on rehabilitation robotics together with EPFL. He became a tenured lecturer and researcher at Lausanne University in 2007 and served on the European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine as President from 2012 to 2014. Rolf joined the LHS development team at the HEIG-VD in 2012 as a medical advisor and is in charge of the clinical aspects of the LHS.

Nicolas is a physical therapist specialised in neurorehabilitation. He is currently a teacher in the University of Health Science (HESAV) in Lausanne. He works with neurological patients since 2004 and his research interests mainly focus on repetitive movements, spasticity and robotics. Nicolas joined the LHS team in 2013 as physical therapist advisor and is in charge of the training aspect of the company. His input is especially important for the development of the pedal, the seat and the user interface.

Carl has been involved in the development of medical devices for 12 years. During his Ph.D. Thesis at EPFL, on “Functional orthosis with parallel and serial kinematics for the rehabilitation of the lower limbs”, he specialized in biomechanics and invented the first concept of the Lambda robot. He is currently Professor at the HEIG-VD in the Biomedical Engineering Group and continues his research in robotics applied to rehabilitation as head of the biomechanics laboratory.

Michel is a researcher in the field of robotics and control with more than 15 years of experience. He specialized in Physical Human Robot Interaction. His past achievements include the development of a new class of High Performance Actuators for Interaction and specialized Impedance/Admittance Control Schemes. He is currently a professor at Hepia Geneva, member of the HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts in western Switzerland. Michel joined the LHS development team in 2009 and developed all the Model Based Motion Control Schemes.

Francis is currently an associate professor at the University of Health Sciences (HESAV) in Lausanne. He did his PhD on different training modalities on chronic heart failure patients. He is currently developing new methods of valuations and training under hypoxia conditions in disabled subjects. He specialized in “physical activity and health”. He aims at investigating the effect of regular physical activity on health in different kinds of diseases. Recently, he used the hypoxia model to explain neurophysiologic process (i.e. postural stability) in healthy subjects. Professor Degache is also internationally recognized in the field of muscular isokinetic evaluations.

Reymond obtained his degree in mechanical engineering and his PhD degree in parallel robotics at EPFL. After nine years of gathered experience in industrial plants (research and development), he was appointed professor at EPFL in 1981. He was consecutively entrusted with the following positions: Department Head, President (dean) of the lecturer's board of micro engineering and, in 1993, Director of the Laboratory of robotics’ systems (LSRO). His research topics focused on high speed and high precision robotics, medical robotics’ applications, surgical instrumentation and precision mechanisms. Reymond is at the origin of 30 patents.

Valentin has an M.A. in economics from University of Zurich (summa cum laude). He built up the North American operations of a Swiss biotech / pharma SME in Boston from 2009 to 2014, and then became MBI-partner of a ETHZ Medical Device Spin-Off, where he built up and led the commercial operations. After the successful exit of the company in 2016, he was responsible for post-merger-integration and global sales strategy at the acquiring company. Since April 2018, building on his experience in strategy for medical devices and healthcare-related ventures, Valentin has been working with a number of SMEs and startups in advisory/board/external positions.

Stéphane is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences HE-Arc, where he leads the Graphics Team. His research mainly focuses on Serious Games for Health and geometric modeling applied to the field of radiotherapy. He recently wrote a book on WebGL, i.e. real time computer graphics for Internet. Concerning the LHS, Stéphane's team currently focuses on the Serious Games developments.

Balvinder has more than 25 years of experience as an Information Technology expert with leading Swiss Luxury Goods Brands. Multilingual with work experience at international and national level, he has also helped a Swiss Family Office for it’s IT outsourcing project for developing automated trading systems on World Stock Markets. He is very passionate about Swiss innovations and has helped in fund raising for Top 100 – Best Swiss Startups. Balvinder is advising us for Business Development.