Professor of Software engineering (emeritus) at ETH Zurich: Chair of software engineering. Chief technology officer, Eiffel software.

CV: Électricité de France 1974-1983; Univ. of California Santa Barbara 1983-1985; Eiffel software, Santa Barbara since 1985 (president until 2001, then CTO); ETH Zurich since Oct. 2001 (department chair 2004-2006).

Mauro Pezzè is Professor of Software Engineering at the Università di Milano Bicocca and at the Università della Svizzera italiana where he has served as dean of the faculty of informatics from 2009 to 2013. 

He is the leader of the STAR research group of the Università della Svizzera italiana, and the director of the LTA research laboratory of the Università di Milano Bicocca.

Prof. Oriol spent 10 years in research working on components infrastructures, software engineering and software testing. After his PhD at University of Geneva, he was a Postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland College Park and ETH Zurich.

He then moved into a tenured position as a senior lecturer at the University of York int he UK. Following this academic experience, he then worked for 10 years for ABB and industry giant.