Thomas J. Lawrence, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TJL Inc. (Thomas.Lawrence@TJLinc.net)

Thomas J. Lawrence, the Founder and Chairman TJL Inc. holds a BSEE degree in Computer Sciences and Mathematics (1957) from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree from Stanford University in Computer Sciences (1965). His experience includes 12 years of progressive positions in the Design of Computer Systems at Lockheed Missiles and Space (4yrs), Stanford University (6yrs), and RCA Corp (2yrs). 

Mr. Lawrence relocated to Europe in 1968 and has held positions of:   

Raffaele Ercole, Vice President (Raffaele.Ercole@TJLInc.net)

Raffaele has been a partner of  TJL Inc. since 1986 and brings over 20 years experience in Electronics, Cad/CAE industry, distribution, sales and marketing.

Raffaele started his career as a member of R&D at Elsag/Bailey in Italy, where he developed a multiprocessor for a real-time mail address recognition system. He later worked for two years as a leader on a voice recognition system project. In 1980 Raffaele joined Calma Corp. in London as Application Engineer and later worked as project manager, supporting design groups of leading European companies involved in chip as well as system design.

Raffaele continued his career in various technical and marketing roles with leading Silicon Valley companies as Valid Logic, Silicon Compilers and Logic Modeling, that became industry leaders in the CAE industry. He was instrumental in the development and introduction of innovative products and technologies such as physical modeling for logic simulation, silicon compilation and synthesis. At Logic Modeling he managed the European applications and achieved record sales in the first two years of operation. He also spent two years in sales managing distribution channels.  

Raffaele is a native of Italy and resides in London and Genoa, Italy. He graduated with honors in Electronics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Genoa. Raff is fluent in French and German and is advisor to several high-tech start-ups.

Henri Aebischer, Vice President (Henri.Aebischer@TJLinc.net)

Henri joined TJL Inc. in 1997 after having spent 15 years at Apple in several top management positions in Europe and in California.  In the early 1980s he participated in the creation of Apple Europe and launched the Lisa and the Macintosh in all European markets. Then he became worldwide director of marketing for Apple’s networking products. In 1990 he came back to Europe as general manager of the European R&D Center, focusing on European telecom products.

He started his career in 1971 with Honeywell Bull where he became marketing manager for the Level 6 minicomputer product line. In 1977, he joined Data General Europe to launch the NOVA 4 and all early Eclipse systems, including the firm’s first 32-bit minicomputer (the centerpiece of Tracy Kidder’s book “The Soul of a New Machine”).

Henri specializes in helping high-technology companies to develop differentiating marketing strategies and to implement high impact market development programs. The industry sectors he covered in the last five years include semiconductor technologies, telecommunications and IT systems, application and system software as well as system integration and web integration.

Henri was born in Switzerland when the transistor was being invented and earned and earned a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich the year the Intel 4004 was launched. He resides in London and spends his time between the UK, the US, France and Switzerland where he is a board member of several hi-tech companies.

Jeff Elias, Associate (Jeff.Elias@).

Mike Healy, Associate (Mike.Healy@TJLinc.net).