Edouard "Ed" Bugnion is a Swiss computer science professor at EPFL and a co-founder of VMware. Since 2025, he is Vice President for Innovation and Impact at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.[1]
Biography
Bugnion was raised in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.[2]
Bugnion was one of the five founders of VMware in 1998 (with his advisor Mendel Rosenblum) and was the chief architect until 2004.[3] While he was chief architect, VMware developed the secure desktop initiative also known as NetTop for the US National Security Agency.[4]
After VMware, Bugnion was a founder of Nuova Systems which was funded by Cisco Systems, and acquired by them in April 2008.[5] Bugnion joined Cisco as vice president and chief technology officer of Cisco's Server Access and Virtualization Business Unit.[6]
References
- Vice Presidencies EPFL, retrieved 2025-01-07^
- Edouard Bugnion Personal student web page, Stanford University, retrieved November 13, 2011^
- VMware Leadership retrieved November 13, 2011^