Foundation Board
Timothy O'Hear
Co-founder and Chairman of the Foundation Board
Expert in Artificial Intelligence and digital innovations, this EPFL engineer creates his first company during his studies. He then developed a business management software and launched Revelate SA. It integrates a series of AI-driven components to simplify and automate multiple aspects of business management.
The challenges of the place of people and work in a society augmented by the power of machines lead him to become involved in the ImpactIA Foundation.
An amateur of contemporary dance, he created the “DAI”AI, a robot dancer and interpreter in partnership with the Immobilité company Foofwa, which he chairs.
François Jung
CEO Synact
Trained in sociology and didactics, François Jung is a specialist in adult education. He provides training for trainers as part of the Swiss Federal Certificate in www.formations.ch, which he co-created, as well as the DAS at the University of Geneva. He has been leading teams of specialists in the field of skills development for nearly 30 years. Among his passions, two themes that upset and are nevertheless essential to the future of companies: the real quality approach and the question of employability. He is also the founder of idEE- Léman (www.ideeleman.ch) and director of Synact (www.synact.org)
Arnaud Salomon
CEO Mt Pelerin
Arnaud is a reference in the world of tokenization and studied at EPFL in Switzerland.
A frequent traveller, his entrepreneurial spirit began at the age of 16, with the creation of his first construction and repair company in Prague. After his studies, he started trading in raw materials and currencies. He founded Smex, Mt Pelerin and ibani in 2014, with the ambition of revolutionizing the banking world.
CEO of Mt Pelerin, Arnaud is pursuing the revolution in finance from top to bottom.
Laura Tocmacov
Co-founder and managing director
Specialized in professional disruption caused by Artificial Intelligence and robotization, Laura has been involved in employability for more than 20 years:
- With individuals and career transitions
- To companies in organizational and strategic thinking aligned with a sustainable vision and mission
- To organizations by supporting the societal impact
It considers that the displacement and disappearance of massive jobs, which will be one of the realities of AI’s technological evolution, to be the greatest societal challenge of the next 30 years.
Denis Lattion
Asset manager
Consulting, organisation and project management.
Alain Kolly
Deputy Managing Director HUG
After nearly 15 years as head of the Red Cross delegation, Alain took over the management of the Hospice General in Geneva. For more than 7 years, he directed social action and gave the institution a solid foundation. He took over the management of the EPI (Public Institutions for Integration).
In January 2019, he became Deputy Director General of the HUG (Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève).
Antonio Sanchez
Head of development, SIG
He is responsible for GIS for skills and career development, succession planning, training, job descriptions, evaluation (chair of the evaluation committee), trainee management and relations with the academic world.