Philippe Granger is a Partner at Auriga Partners, a venture capital firm focused on Information Technology and Life Sciences. Philippe joined Auriga Partners in 1999 and has been instrumental in a number of business ventures across the software, Internet and semiconductor sectors. Prior to his work at Auriga Partners, Philippe was a professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées (ENSTA) in Paris where he headed the Computer Science and Telecom department. He also worked as an IT researcher specializing in software and hardware verification at Carnegie Mellon University, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Normale Supérieure. He currently sits on the boards of several companies in France, the USA and Switzerland.