JESUS MARTIN-GARCIA, MBA
Jesús Martin-Garcia has a BS in Businesses Administration and a BA in Law from University of Geneva. In 1989, he graduated with an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Jesús Martin-Garcia started a consulting career at McKinsey & Co., where he led strategy and organizational studies with teams of client executives and McKinsey consultants. Studies under direct responsibility included international restructurings, corporate process re-design and operational turn-arounds in the Food and Pharma industries.

In 1993, Jesús became a Founding Partner of Value Management Group (VMG), a consulting and investment boutique focused on telecoms and new technologies. Jesús advises medium-size European Telcos on key strategic issues related to fixed and mobile business development, M&A and regulatory policy. Since 1995, Jesús has co-founded, invested seed capital and supported the development of several technology-focused start-ups in the Lake Geneva region. In 1997, he was for example the co-Founder of Le Shop, Switzerland’s largest e-commerce company and one of the few European survivors in this field.

Contact > jmg@eclosion.com

BENOIT DUBUIS, PHD
Having graduated from the EPFL in Chemistry, Dr. Dubuis post graduated at the ETH Zurich in 1994, having presented a PhD thesis on biotechnology. He then did a post-doc in the BHR Group, Cranfield University (GB) and subsequently complemented his education with management studies (INSEAD Executive Management course on advanced finance and marketing), Human Resources, Quality Management (ISO, GMP) and Intellectual Property.

In 1995, Dr. Dubuis joined Ciba-Geigy AG (now Novartis) in Basel with responsibilities in project development, project transfers and WW new facility set-ups. In parallel in 1993, he became a consultant with the ETH Military Security Institute in chemical and biological security. He joined Lonza AG in 1997 as Business Development Manager of the Biotechnology Division. Dr. Dubuis also co-founded several companies in the field of biotechnology and is a respected adviser for different leading pharmaceutical companies.

Dr. Dubuis has been working at EPFL since 2000, where he is the Dean a.i. of the School of Life Sciences. He also published different papers and books in the field of biotechnology and science communication.

Contact > benoit.dubuis@eclosion.com