Position
Founder and Partner cnlab information technology research AG
Peter Heinzmann founded cnlab itr ag together with Paul Schöbi in 1997. Until 2019 he was CTO and led the projects in the areas of performance and user experience benchmarking. At the same time, he was professor for information security and computer networks at the HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil.
Since 2020 Peter Heinzmann has transferred the management to Eric Franke. He continues to work on cnlab performance benchmarking projects and leads the courses for corporate data protection officers.
Education
Electrical Engineering at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Dipl. El. Ing. ETH
Dr. sc. Techn. ETH
Native Language
German
Other Languages
English (fluent), French (fluent)
Year of birth
1954
Professional Experience
- 1997 till today
cnlab Information Technology Research AG, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Partner and Technical Director
- 1991 till 2019 (part time since 1998)
University of Applied Sciences Eastern Switzerland, HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
Professor for Information Security and Computer Networks, Continued education courses (Internet Technologies, Information Security and Privacy)
- 1987 - 1991
Research Staff Member, IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland, High-Speed LAN/MAN group, focusing on architectural and network reconfiguration issues
- 1984 - 1987
Institute for Communications Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Leading the research group "Fiber Optics and Local Area Networking"
- 1979 - 1984
Institute for Communications Technology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Assistant and PhD student to Prof. Dr. P. Leuthold working in number theory, cryptography, fiber optics and LAN/MAN