Board of Directors

Founder, Chairman & CTO, Stromasys SA

Robert Boers started his career as a sales representative for Digital Equipment Corporation in the Netherlands. After several years in the IT department of RaboBank, he returned to Digital Equipment Europe in Geneva. In various engineering functions, he was responsible for Telecommunication compliance, the European External R&D program, established several Digital engineering centers in Western Europe, and created Digital's software migration center in Moscow.

Robert has an engineering degree from the Technical University in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, an Honorary Doctorate from the Moscow Engineering-Physics Technical University, and completed the International Advanced Management Program from IMD, Lausanne and INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France. Robert founded Stromasys in 1998 as a management buyout at the time of the merger between Digital and Compaq.

Board member

Jean-Claude Peterschmitt was Vice President-Europe and Chairman of the European Board of Directors of Digital Equipment Corporation.

Over the last 20 years, he has served on Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards of a number of European and American technology ventures and venture capital funds. He is a founding member of the Council of Le Réseau (a Swiss network structure for the creation and development of high-technology enterprises in Switzerland) and of the Governing Council of Health on the Net (a Geneva based non-profit foundation for the development and facilitation of access to the Internet for Health information). He is also a member of the Council of the Refugee Education Trust, a Geneva based non-profit foundation for Post-Primary Education in Emergency worldwide.

Mr. Peterschmitt received an Engineering degree from Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule (Zurich) and an M.S. degree from the MIT Sloan School of Business

Board Member   

Igor Varsek is a Client Executive of Atos Origin International. He has over 20 years of experience in the set-up and management of worldwide IT service organizations, Global Account Teams and application management outsourcing, and is currently managing the Global Account Team for France Telecom. Prior to senior management positions in Sema, Schlumberger and Athos Origin, Dr. Varsek was the Director Corporate External Techology group and, before that, the Director of External and Applied Research Centres in Digital Equipment Corporation – Europe.

Dr. Varsek has a cum laude Doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, and completed the International Advanced Management Program from IMD, Lausanne and INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.

Board Member   

Bobby Choonavala's career spans over 40 years n the Information Technology industry. He has spent most of his working life with Digital Equipment Corporation in senior executive positions in Europe, Asia and the United States. He was a member of Digital's European management team from 1971 to 1985, drove the fast growth of its Far East business from 1985-1992, was appointed an Officer of Digital in 1992 and was President of its 4,000+ person strong Asia Pacific business and operations, until its merger with Compaq in 1998. He joined the Iomega Corporation as their Asia Pacific Vice President and was responsible for building its distribution channel throughout the region.

From 2000-2007 Mr Choonavala was CEO of Twinwood Engineering Ltd, a listed company in Singapore, where he led the effort to build a new IT business.

In recent years, he has been mentoring a number of start ups, in some of which he has investments. He has extensive experience in all operational aspects, especially sales and marketing, of technology companies and is well-networked in the Asia Pacific IT community.