Erich Ruetsche           

Erich Ruetsche is leading IBM Corporate Technology and IP in Europe. With is team he is managing the IBM technology collaboration and licensing business and coordinating the Governmental research programs of the European Research labs in Dublin, Haifa and Zurich.

http://www.ibm.com/ibm/licensing/

He holds diploma and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from ETH Zurich and an MBA from Ashridge Management College, UK.

After postdoctoral studies at the Institute Eurecom in France, he started his business career as a technology and strategy consultant and did grow an IT security startup in Switzerland.