GOVERNANCE
Who decides, who does the work.
A board, one direction, ten people and three partners.
The board of SGDL Innovation SA
Chair: Alex Kummerman. Directors: Alan Tawil-Kummerman, Jean-François Rotgé, Stéphane Mugnier-Jacob, Denis Akzam; Michel Kummerman. Secretary: Marc Aubert.
Three standing committees: Audit & Finance; Remuneration; Intellectual property, Patents & Standards.
The direction of the SGDL+Ariadne Group
- Alex Kummerman
- Jean-François Rotgé
- Alan Tawil-Kummerman
- Stéphane Mugnier-Jacob
- Denis Akzam
- Marc Aubert, secretary
The people
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Alex Kummerman
CEO, SGDL Innovation SA · Managing director, Ariadne Geometry Inc.
Founder, apprentice of Jean-François Rotgé: fifteen thousand hours in the Arithmetics of Forms. Coordination of the group, its intellectual property and its standards seats.
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Jean-François Rotgé
CSO, SGDL Innovation SA
PhD, Université de Montréal. Mathematician, author of the Arithmetics of Forms (1997), co-creator of MPEG-4 AFX.
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Jean-Marie Le Goff
Partnerships
PhD in experimental particle physics, DPhil in computer science. Physicist and computer scientist, thirty-five years at CERN including the technology-transfer office.
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Laurent Daniel
Engineering direction
Co-founder of SGDL Systèmes (1995). The kernel and its ports.
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Paul-Olivier Dehaye
AI direction and the proof programme
PhD in mathematics, Stanford. The Lean corpus and the SGDL Framework.
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Jérémie Farret
Standards, Ariadne Geometry Inc.
MEng in computer science, INSA Lyon. Author of the inclusion of the SGDL representation in ISO/IEC 14496-16 (MPEG-4 AFX). Carries the standardisation strategy.
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Marc Aubert
COO, SGDL Innovation SA · Secretary of the board
BA in international relations, New York University. Operations, communication, and the follow-through of the standardisation calendar.
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Alan Tawil-Kummerman
CFO, SGDL Innovation SA and Ariadne Geometry Inc.
Master’s in management, MIT Sloan; economics, Swarthmore College. Finance of the two companies, and the Audit & Finance committee.
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Denis Akzam
Industrial cooperation, Ariadne Geometry Inc.
BEng, Polytechnique Montréal; MBA in finance, Rotman School of Management. Industrial cooperation and deep-tech partnerships, Canada.
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Michel Bernard
Scientific documentation · SLWM
Responsible for the SLWM and its scientific documentation.
The partners
- Hestia.ai (Geneva): data science and AI direction.
- Dtangle SA (Geneva): intellectual-property analysis and technology watch.
- Operalta (Geneva): business development.