Carrol Plummer, (P.Eng, BSc Mechanical Engineering, MBA INSEAD), brings to the Vivent years of experience participating and investing in, as well as advising, small high technology businesses.

Dr Nigel Wallbridge, the Tech Entrepreneur (Ph.D, MIMechE, MBA INSEAD), is an internationally renowned serial entrepreneur with extensive experience founding and growing companies in both North America & Europe.

Caleb Carroll’s leadership and technical contributions have been key to the success of a number of start-up companies. At Vivent he is using advanced machine learning techniques to interpret plant electrophysiology signals.

Andrzej Kurenda brings in-depth knowledge of molecular biology and microscopy to Vivent’s team. His strong analytical and data processing skills enable him to quickly gain insights from the large data sets in Vivent’s world leading plant electrophysiology library.

Nick Barker (MA Engineering, MBA) has spent many years making computers interact in real time with the real world, and has invented and developed applications and systems ranging from safety critical monitoring systems, to mobile communications systems, indoor positioning systems and process control.

Carl Rentes is a senior professional with a broad international network and more than 30 years of experience in the agri- and horticulture industry. He has held successive commercial and business development and general management roles within the seed industry: at Seminis, Monsanto and Germains Seed Technology.

Anna Custo (PhD in Computer Science) is a Data Science specialist who applies her 20 years of experience in machine learning and statistics to solving real life problems. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from MIT and a research fellowship from Harvard Medical School.

Olivier Bourhis is a member of the strategic committee at Sud Telecom Paris and has conducted an extensive number of international assignments for Fortune 500 companies in Europe, Asia and in the Americas.

In order to satisfy her curiosity, Alja van der Schuren came to Lausanne for a PhD in root development on a new model plant for wheat. Having developed and optimised many research protocols by herself and having worked on extremely time-consuming and slow plant processes, she decided it was time to move to fast-paced industry, where also teamwork was more essential.

Dr. Moritz Graeff is a plant researcher whose research is focused on the question of how plants perceive their environment, and how they integrate this information to adapt their growth and development.

Sandro Lecci holds a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Lausanne where he investigated novel methodological and analytical approaches to analyze the brain electrical activity during sleep. He also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the sleep research center of the CHUV where he studied the electrophysiological correlates of insomnia states.