Our Team
Management
Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder
Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki
Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at the EPFL in Switzerland. She has a 20-year-long career on data-intensive systems and applications, with technological inventions on data layouts for emerging micro-architectures, data management on solid-state storage, and computational databases for data-intensive medical and other scientific applications. Her algorithms are in popular database products by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. She has several academic awards from ERC, ESF, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and eight best-paper awards for systems work at top database, storage, and computer architecture forums. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She is an ACM fellow and the vice chair of the ACM SIGMOD, a senior member of the IEEE, and serves at the Global Agenda Council for Data, Society and Development of the World Economic Forum. She was awarded the prestigious ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award in 2019.
Miguel Branco
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
Miguel Branco
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
CTO of RAW Labs leading RAW’s technical team and product. Between 2003-2009, Miguel was at CERN where he developed the distributed data management system of the ATLAS Experiment of the Large Hadron Collider, a massive multi-PB data management infrastructure across 100+ computing centres. After CERN, and frustrated by the apparent limitations of existing database systems, Miguel was briefly converted into an academic database researcher working with Anastasia on in-situ query processing as the future of data management. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton in 2009. Miguel and Anastasia have been working together in the past 5+ years at EPFL before co-founding RAW Labs.
Lars Färnström
Chief Executive Officer
Lars Färnström
Chief Executive Officer
Lars joined RAW Labs in as 2018 Chief Commercial Officer and was named Chief Executive Officer in January 2021. Prior to RAW Labs, Lars worked for a number of leading companies in the software industry, including HP, C3 IoT, GoodData, Board International, CAS and Siebel Systems where he held senior roles on international level in sales and marketing. Earlier on in his career he managed several large-scale software implementations for companies such as HP. During his career he has acquired an in-depth knowledge of the enterprise software industry, in the areas of analytics, big data, IoT and CRM. Lars has an M.Sc. in Economics and Business Administration from the Copenhagen Business School.
Board
Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki
Chairwoman Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki
Chairwoman
Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at the EPFL in Switzerland. She has a 20-year-long career on data-intensive systems and applications, with technological inventions on data layouts for emerging micro-architectures, data management on solid-state storage, and computational databases for data-intensive medical and other scientific applications. Her algorithms are in popular database products by Oracle, IBM, and Microsoft. She has several academic awards from ERC, ESF, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and eight best-paper awards for systems work at top database, storage, and computer architecture forums. She has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2000. She is an ACM fellow and the vice chair of the ACM SIGMOD, a senior member of the IEEE, and serves at the Global Agenda Council for Data, Society and Development of the World Economic Forum. She was awarded the prestigious ACM SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovation Award in 2019.
Claude Honegger
Board Member
Claude Honegger
Board Member
Claude is a board member, advisor and investor. He has more than 30 years of experience in leading and transforming large, complex, global organizations. Prior to his current engagements he held several senior management roles including being the Group CIO of Credit Suisse. In addition to his board and advisory mandates he serves on a number of industry and advisory committees.
Pyrros Koussios
Board Member
Pyrros Koussios
Board Member
Pyrros is a board member and investor in technology companies and advises technology private equity funds. Currently Pyrros is a senior advisor to the fund established by the German utilities Innogy and Eon and is on the board of a number of private technology companies. Previously Pyrros was with Vector Capital and earlier was responsible for group strategy and corporate development at NDS/Cisco where he led the sale process of NDS to Cisco for $5B. Earlier Pyrros worked in a variety of business development/strategy and sales roles at Cable & Wireless, after having started his professional career as a software engineer and entrepreneur in Switzerland. He holds an MSc in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and has attended the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Ariel Lüdi
Board Member
Ariel Lüdi
Board Member
Ariel is a serial entrepreneur and founding investor in RAW Labs. He was a major shareholder and CEO of Hybris software for eleven years, helping to develop the company and position it as a global commerce leader. Ariel‘s role was also instrumental in driving the successful acquisition of the company by SAP in August 2013 for more than 1B USD. Prior to joining Hybris, Ariel held various senior positions at Salesforce, Oracle and IBM. Ariel entered the realm of e-commerce in 1996 at BroadVision. Ariel studied Physics at ETH in Zurich.
Miguel Branco
Board Member Miguel Branco
Board Member
CTO of RAW Labs leading RAW’s technical team and product. Between 2003-2009, Miguel was at CERN where he developed the distributed data management system of the ATLAS Experiment of the Large Hadron Collider, a massive multi-PB data management infrastructure across 100+ computing centres. After CERN, and frustrated by the apparent limitations of existing database systems, Miguel was briefly converted into an academic database researcher working with Anastasia on in-situ query processing as the future of data management. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southampton in 2009. Miguel and Anastasia have been working together in the past 5+ years at EPFL before co-founding RAW Labs.
Advisors
Prof. Alon Halevy
Advisor
Prof. Alon Halevy
Advisor
Alon is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a leading researcher in the area of data integration. He was a research scientist at Google from 2005 to 2015, when he left to become head of Recruit Institute of Technology. He left Recruit in 2018 and joined Facebook AI in 2019. Until 2006, he was a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1993.
He is a fellow of the ACM and a winner of the 2006 VLDB 10-year best paper award. He was a Sloan Fellow, and received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 2000. He is the founder of two technology companies, Nimble Technology (now Actuate Corporation) and Transformic Inc.
At Google he was involved in Google Fusion Tables.
Prof. Mike Franklin
Advisor
Prof. Mike Franklin
Advisor
Michael J. Franklin is an American software entrepreneur and computer scientist specializing in distributed and streaming database technology. He is Liew Family Chair of Computer Science and Chairman for the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.
Prior to Chicago, he was Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Computer Science and Chair of the Computer Science Division at University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley he was Director of the Algorithms, Machines, and People Laboratory (AMPLab) a collaboration of computing systems, data management, machine learning researchers focused on large-scale data analytics. Under his direction, AMPLab projects such as Spark and Mesos had wide industrial and academic impact. Professor Franklin is an ACM Fellow as well as SIGMOD Test of Time Award recipient. Professor Franklin is in the 2009 inaugural group of UMass’ Alumni receiving achievement award from the CS Department at University of Massachusetts Amherst for Outstanding Achievement in Research. He was also a cofounder as well as CTO of Truviso, a company specializing in streaming databases which was acquired by Cisco in May 2012. He is also an advisor to Databricks, a big data company commercializing the Spark research project.
Professor Franklin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1983 and a master’s degree from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies in 1986. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1993 with his thesis Caching and memory management in client-server database systems.
Prof. Martin Odersky
Advisor
Prof. Martin Odersky
Advisor
Martin Odersky heads the programming research group at EPFL. His research interests cover fundamental as well as applied aspects of programming languages. They include semantics, type systems, programming language design, and compiler construction. The main focus of his work lies in the integration of object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work concentrates on the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP, while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET.
Martin Odersky got his doctorate from ETHZ, in 1989. He held research positions at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center from 1989 and at Yale University from 1991. He was then a professor at the University of Karlsruhe from 1993 and at the University of South Australia from 1997. He joined EPFL as full professor in 1999.
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