Edouard Bugnion joined EPFL in 2012, where his focus is on datacenter systems. His areas of interest include operating systems, datacenter infrastructure (systems and networking), and computer architecture. 

Before joining EPFL, Edouard spent 18 years in the US, where he studied at Stanford and co-founded two startups: VMware and Nuova Systems (acquired by Cisco). At VMware from 1998 until 2005, he played many roles including CTO. At Nuova/Cisco from 2005 until 2011, he helped build the core engineering team and became the VP/CTO of Cisco’s Server, Access, and Virtualization Technology Group, a group that brought to market Cisco’s Unied Computing System (UCS) platform for virtualized datacenters.

Sacha Labourey is the founder and CEO of Cloud Bees, Inc., a startup  in the fast growing cloud computing market.  He is also advisor andinvestor in several other ventures,  including eXo Platform and Wallix. 

In 2003, he founded JBoss’ European headquarters and, as General Manager for Europe. In June 2006, JBoss, Inc.  was acquired by Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), leader of the Linux Operating System, for $420m. In 2007, Sacha became co-General Manager of Red Hat’s middleware division. He left Red Hat in April 2009

Prior to JBoss, Inc., he was the founder of Cogito Informatique, a Swiss  IT consulting firm.