Maël holds a European Master of Science from the University of Rennes (France), including six months at the University of Barcelona and one year in the UK. He is laureate of the "Passeport Bretagne pour Entreprendre". After 6 years of R&D experience at the IDIAP Research Institute in the areas of content based multimedia indexing and human computer interaction, he is the founder of the Swiss Klewel SÀRL.