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Gregoire Ribordy
Vice-Chairman
id Quantique

Gregoire Ribordy, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, has over 10 years of experience in various R&D and management roles in the field of optical measurements and communication systems. He founded id Quantique in 2001 and has managed the company since then.

Prior to this, he was a research fellow at the Group of Applied Physics of the University of Geneva between 1997 and 2001. In this position, he actively developed quantum cryptography technology and managed several development projects, in collaboration with industry (Swisscom) and with other research groups (R&D initiatives funded by the European Union). Between 1995 and 1996, Gregoire worked for one year in the R&D division of Nikon Corp. in Tokyo, Japan, where he performed computational simulations of novel optical microscope types.

He is fluent in French, English and German, and has a good command of Japanese.

Gregoire Ribordy obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Geneva for his research in experimental quantum cryptography in 2000. He also holds a Master's Degree in physical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and a Business Degree from the Business School of the University of Lausanne. He is the author of 25 scientific papers and is cited as inventor on several patents in the field of quantum cryptography.

Gregoire Ribordy is the recipient of several awards such as the 2001 New Entrepreneurs in Technology and Science prize, the 2002 de Vigier award and the Swiss Society for Optics and Microscopy 1999 prize. At the end of 2005, he was selected, along with id Quantique's cofounder Olivier Guinnard, as one of the most innovative individuals in information technology worldwide by the World Technology Network.

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