The people behind CloudBroker

Wibke Sudholt

Associate and Chair of the Management

Wibke Sudholt came to cloud computing from a natural sciences background, with her experience being enriched by international environments, leadership functions, and academic-industry cooperation. She obtained a chemistry diploma and doctoral degree in Germany (at University of Dortmund and Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, respectively), and received postdoctoral training in the USA (at the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Supercomputer Center) and Switzerland (at ETH Zurich and University of Zurich). She focused on computational chemistry, and became involved in multi-national grid computing projects as a postdoc. For three years she was working as project leader for grid computing at the University of Zurich, and chaired the executive board of the Swiss National Grid Association (SwiNG) for one year. She now is a member of the executive board of Cloud Suisse. Her main areas of expertise are the porting and enabling of applications on distributed computer infrastructures, as well as the management of corresponding projects and people. Her domain experience reaches from chemistry to insurance. Through projects involving industry partners she got insight into enterprise computing environments.

Peter Kunszt

Associate and Manager

Peter Kunszt has developed large-scale computing applications already for his PhD in theoretical physics (at the University of Bern). At the John Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA, he has been one of the lead developers of the science archive for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, in cooperation with Microsoft Research. After returning to Europe, Peter was leading development teams on large-scale data management and grid middleware services at CERN for five years, being responsible for many of the distributed data services used also today. Later, he was responsible for building and maintaining support teams for computationally intensive projects at ETH Zurich's Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). He now is project manager of the SystemsX.ch Biology IT (SyBIT). He has a very wide network of international connections both in academia and industry due to his activities in standardization bodies (including SwiNG) and international project coordination. He also has operational knowledge of large computing infrastructures through CSCS and CERN.

Nicola Fantini

Associate and Manager

Nicola Fantini has been software engineer, project manager and entrepreneur in the field of software development for more than 20 years. He holds a Master’s degree in computer science and business administration (from the University of Zurich, Switzerland). He worked for five years in the R&D department of 3M managing and developing solutions for research laboratories and toxicology. Starting from 1995, he has setup his own software engineering companies with development centers in Bulgaria, Vietnam and the Ukraine as well as his consulting practice in Switzerland. He has been involved in and leading projects across industries from logistics/transportation over software to finance, providing operational, commercial, financial as well as technical solutions. Following a strong growth, the Bulgarian development center with more than 150 engineers has been sold to VMware, the leading company in virtualization. He has supported and is engaged in a number technology companies, providing engineering and consulting resources as well as financing solutions.