Mario Grotz (chairman), Paul Konsbruck (member of the board), Roger Lampach (Chief Executive Officer) and Pascal Bouvry (Chief Executive Officer).

M. Paul Konsbruck is Chief of Staff and First Government Counsellor at the Ministry of State.

M. Mario Grotz is First Government Counsellor at the Ministry of the Economy.

CEO

Roger Lampach graduated from the University of Technology in Munich and has over 30 years of experience in operations and project management. Drawing on his skills, particularly in the implementation and development of LuxConnect, he oversees LuxProvide’s industrial and project management components. Roger is also CEO of LuxConnect.

CEO

Pascal Bouvry holds a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Grenoble (INPG), France, and performed post-doctoral research at CWI in Amsterdam. He gained industrial experience working in various management and C-Level positions in Europe, Asia and North America in the Fintech, Space, and Telecommunication domains. Since 2003 Pascal has served as a full professor at the University of Luxembourg, for which he founded and manages the HPC service. Pascal Bouvry also represents Luxembourg in the PRACE council and serves as an associated editor for IEEE, Springer and Elsevier.

CTO

Valentin Plugaru holds an MSc. degree in information and computer sciences from the University of Luxembourg. He has managed HPC facilities in R&D institutes, and developed and grown the HPC platform of University of Luxembourg, interacting closely with scientific and industry groups to valorise HPC systems. With a multi-disciplinary background and over a decade of expertise in HPC technologies, he has been part of national and European HPC initiatives, working as an HPC expert to outline roadmaps for the European HPC ecosystem and bring about Luxembourg’s national HPC Center and first national supercomputing platform. Driven by a long-standing passion for all things HPC, he is a firm supporter of supercomputing and AI-enabled and data-driven insight and innovation.

Group Leader, User Engagement & Professional Services

Matthieu Lefebvre obtained a Ph.D. degree in mathematics from University Paris 13, France while performing research at ONERA, the French Aerospace Lab. He was previously a researcher at Princeton University, New Jersey, first as a post-doctoral associate in the geoscience department and then as a research software engineer in the research computing department. Before joining LuxProvide in April 2020, he worked as a technology developer for autonomous driving at BMW in Munich. Matthieu has in-depth experience, bridging the gap between domain knowledge and hardware platforms in a variety of fields including geophysics, computational fluid dynamics, high-energy physics and autonomous driving.