Chief Technology Officer of EKS - a SPORTFIVE company, a consulting company providing strategic, planning and operations services to owners and organizers of the biggest sport events in the World. A company of 25-100 people, with worldwide operations, we help minimize event risk and improve planning efficiency for Olympic Games, World Championships and other major events. Now part of Lagardère Sport & Entertainment.• Responsible for the conception, implementation and management of the company's IT infrastructure and solutions, supporting a highly mobile workforce deployed around the World in teams varying between 10 and 100 people• Conceived, architected, developed and operated the Event Planning System, an innovative project collaboration, compliance and reporting system used to manage the planning and delivery of major sport events. Currently managing over 800 active and archived projects, including the delivery of sponsorship and media rights for all football matches in Asia• Enhanced, deployed and managed an Enterprise Content Management (ECM - Alfresco) solution to manage company and client documents repository, enable project collaboration and sharing with 700 users and over 750'000 documents covering Olympic Games, Rugby World Cup, Commonwealth Games and a range of other clients, EKS operations and archives• Led the delivery of Knowledge Management services and systems to several International Sport Federations and Olympic events, reducing event risk and costs• Designed and performed the migration of on-premise services to an industrialized cloud deployment in Google Cloud, Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. Designed and deployed container architecture (Docker, Terraform) and related services to increase agility, redundancy and service quality

Consulting and project management company focused on innovation and strategy, technology transfer• Contributed to strategic and product development, new technology analysis and acquisitions for a variety of clients• Assisted publicly-traded company Leclanché SA in its acquisition of micro-battery technology• Wrote initial business plan for AC Immune, now traded on Nasdaq

Business ecosystem fostering the creation and development of high-tech companies• Conceived and launched the new business incubator at the EPFL Innovation Park• Contributed to the creation of 23 companies, with funds raised in excess of 45M CHF• Delivered technology assessments, intellectual property strategy, business modeling and planning, strategy, financing structures and investor searches

Software company focused on delivering visualization solutions for complex, dynamic problems for large aerospace companies, banks and financial institutions. The company’s software was used to represent and diagnose very large corporate networks and help implement novel satellite networks, as well as a variety of other industrial problems requiring dynamic representations of a complex system. In the company, Laurent was closely involved in the design, development, marketing and sales of the product, as well as business development and customer relationship management.

Led the development of a large software project focused on the visualization of complex and dynamic data for the operation of planetary vehicles. This software, called VEVI, earned a “NASA Software of the Year” award in 1996.

Worked on the development and release of Logitech's 3D Mouse product.