Hiring Manger's Profile

Laurent Martin (CTO & CSO)

Laurent is a serial entrepreneur with over 12 years of experience developing leading edge software and high throughput automation technology and has worked in industries ranging from retail distribution and internet media to drug development. Laurent has built global engineering teams spanning India, the US and Europe. He developed technology partnerships with companies such as IBM, HP, and AT&T. He also developed partnerships with research organizations in IBM and the San Diego Super Computer Center. A few years before Napster shook the foundations of the music industry, Laurent founded CD World and developed the first kiosk-based electronic music distribution infrastructure. He authored the first pan-European digital rights management applications and was a key contributor to IBM's Tiger Shark supercomputer streaming platform. Before founding ScanCafe, he applied his expertise in clustering, content management and automation to proteomics at Syrrx which revolutionized crystallography with its robotics technology. Syrrx was acquired for $270M by Takeda Pharmaceuticals.

Laurent has a Masters in Software Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business. Father of two, he speaks four languages and would like to live out his days windsurfing or heliboarding.