André Kudelski
President of Innosuisse / Chairman and CEO of the Kudelski Group
Kudelski Group
Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
My organisation
About me
André Kudelski is Chairman and CEO of the Kudelski Group. Over the course of his career, André Kudelski has gained international recognition for his impact on the digital television industry. His numerous honors include being nominated as a Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1995 and receiving an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 for achievements in the area of pay-TV conditional access and scrambling systems. He is also President of Innosuisse, the Swiss Federal Agency for Innovation, and Vice-Chairman of the Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce. He acts as Lead Director to the Board of Directors of the Publicis Groupe and is a member of the Strategic Advisory Board of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He is a Council member of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum, Japan. He previously served on the Boards of Nestlé, HSBC Private Banking Holdings (Suisse) and Dassault Systèmes. André Kudelski has a MSc in Applied Physics from EPFL and is a member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).