Key people | Constructor group

Chief Constructor & Founder & Chairman

Dr. Serg Bell, a long-time tech entrepreneur, investor and executive, founded the Constructor group, formerly known as the Schaffhausen Institute of T...

President and Chairman of the Executive Board of Constructor University / President of Constructor Knowledge

Co-founder and current president of Acronis, Stanislav Protassov has over 20 years of experience in global software development, from the development ...

COO of Constructor Knowledge, Managing Director and Executive Board Member of Constructor University

Serial founder & General Manager in Education, Bahchesehir University, private K12+, M.Sc. Marketing

Executive Vice Chairman, Constructor group

Katya Fisher is the executive vice chairman of Constructor group, formerly known as the Schaffhausen Institute of Technology (SIT), where she serves a...

Chief Executive Officer of Constructor

Laurent Dedenis, CEO of Constructor and co-founder of Chainstack, previously has founded several companies around the world.

Board member, Constructor group

Dmitry Babichev currently holds a position as a member of the Constructor group Board of Directors as well as the position of Head of Family Office at...

Board member, Constructor group

Christian Wipf joined Gyrus Capital as an advisor and partner in April 2021. Previously, he was chairman and senior advisor at GCA Altium, where he is...

Chairman, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board. Physicist, Professor at the Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, National University of Singapore. Nobel Prize in Physics 2010

Professor Novoselov is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who specializes in condensed matter physics, mesoscopic physics, and nanotechnology. He receive...

Physicist, Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Nobel Prize in Physics 2010

Wolfgang Ketterle has been the John D. MacArthur Professor of Physics at MIT since 1998. He received a diploma (equivalent to master’s degree) from th...

Theoretical and experimental physicist, Professor at Harvard University

Mikhail Lukin is the George Vasmer Leverett Professor of Physics at Harvard University and Co-Director of the Harvard Quantum Initiative in Science an...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Chair of the Department of Computer Science, George Mason University

David S. Rosenblum is a computer science professor with a PhD from Stanford University. He has held positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories, the Universit...

Professor of Computer science at ETH Zurich, Director of Disney Research in Zurich

Markus Gross is a Professor of Computer Science and the director of the Computer Graphics Laboratory of ETH Zurich since 1994. He received his degrees...

Founding member of the MySQL AB company, CTO of the MariaDB Corporation AB, Founder & general partner at OpenOcean

Ulf Michael Widenius is a Finnish software engineer and entrepreneur best known as the main author of the MySQL database. He founded TCX DataKonsult A...

Chairman, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center Purdue University

Alexandra Boltasseva is a Professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University and the editor-in-chief for The Optical Society's Opti...

Professor at the Computer Science Department, ETH Zurich

David Basin is a full professor at ETH Zurich and heads the Information Security Group. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and his research...

Senior Vice Dean for Innovation and Global Initiatives, Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Operations, Information and Decisions Department at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Serguei Netessine is a Dhirubhai Ambani Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has extensi...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Professor of Quantum information and communication, University of Geneva

Nicolas Gisin is a Swiss physicist and professor at the University of Geneva, known for his work on quantum mechanics, quantum information, and commun...

Adjunct Entrepreneurship & Management Professor at IMD Business School

Jim Pulcrano is an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management with expertise in startup culture, strategy, customer centricity, marketing, a...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Professor of Computer Science, University of Texas in Austin

Scott Joel Aaronson is an American theoretical computer scientist and David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science at the University o...

INSEAD Chaired Professor of Decision Sciences

Ilia M. Tsetlin is a Professor of Decision Sciences at INSEAD, with expertise in modeling decisions under uncertainty, negotiation, auction theory, an...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Professor of Computer Science, CEA of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)

Wolfgang Wahlster is a renowned German AI researcher, credited with coining "Industry 4.0." He served as the CEO and Scientific Director of the German...

Professor of Biomacromolecules at ETH Zürich, Co-founder of Philogen

Dario Neri is a Full Professor of Biomacromolecules at ETH Zurich, who focuses on engineering therapeutic antibodies for cancer and other angiogenesis...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Chief Scientist Emeritus & Head of External Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines

Dr Rino Rappuoli is the Chief Scientist Emeritus & Head of External Research and Development at GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. He is globally recognized fo...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy and Provost Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon University

Mark Kamlet is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Provost Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He has joint appointments in the Departm...

Economist, President of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Guest Professor of University Management at University of St. Gallen

Sascha Spoun is the President of Leuphana University since 2006, and a Guest Professor of University Management at University of St. Gallen. He is an ...

Member, Constructor Group Strategic Advisory Board; Professor Emeritus and Provost Emeritus, New York University

Prof. Coleman is a visiting professor at State University Florida's College of Law. He spent 15 years as senior adviser to NYU's president and provost...

Consultant & Advisor in Technology Transfer, Director of the Technology Licensing Office at MIT

Lita Nelsen is Director of the Technology Licensing Office at MIT, managing over 500 new inventions per year and negotiating over 100 licenses and 20 ...