Dr. Matthias Kaiserswerth studied Computer Science at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) and at McGill University in Montreal (Canada). He obtained his PhD in Engineering from Erlangen University. From 1988 to 2015, Dr. Kaiserswerth worked for IBM. He has spent almost his entire career as a researcher in the areas of high-performance communication and security. For more than 11 years Dr. Kaiserswerth was Director of the IBM Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon (Switzerland) until he became Managing Director of the Hasler Foundation in Berne, in May 2015. The foundation supports education, research, and innovation in information and communication technologies. He is also President of the Board at METAS, the Swiss National Metrology Institute, and President of the Board at Abraxas, an IT company serving the public sector in Switzerland. Dr. Kaiserswerth was born in 1956. He has Swiss and German nationality.
