Hervé Lebret has spent all his professional life in high tech.
After a few years in academic research, he became a venture capitalist in 1997 with Index Ventures. Since 2005, he has managed an innovation fund to support high-tech entrepreneurs and start-ups at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering and is a graduate of École Polytechnique (France) and Stanford University (USA). In his last book “Start up: What we may still learn from Silicon Valley”, Lebret explores the phenomena behind the success of Silicon Valley and points to the reasons why Europe has not managed to do the same.
