Venture Ideas: from EPFL to the Valley

© 2013 EPFL

© 2013 EPFL

Sept 20 from noon to 2pm - BC 410. The venture ideas conferences are about high-tech entrepreneurship and are jointly organized by the EPFL Innnogrants and venturelab.

Alexandre Gonthier is a Swiss Entrepreneur and EPFL alumnus (MS in Communications Systems)
based in Silicon Valley. His area of focus is the online and mobile payment industry. He is currently the CEO of PayWithMyBank and eWise. Before that, he co-founded and was the CEO of iPIN, an online and mobile payment company, which was acquired by Intel Corp. He was also the CTO of Paymo, which combined with BOKU to form the world’s fastest-growing mobile payment company. And he was the CEO of Trinity Mobile, which combined with Ticketscript to form Europe’s fastest growing online and mobile entertaining ticketing company. Alex is also very active in the startup ecosystem. He is a Venture Partner at venture capital firm Wellington Partners and was an Advisor to private equity firm 3i in London. More on http://vpiv.epfl.ch/ventureideas