Gian-Luca Bona is a Swiss businessperson who has been the head of 5 different companies. Currently, Dr. Bona holds the position of Chairman of Technopark Allianz, Chairman of glaTec technology center, Chairman of Technopark Zuerich Foundation and Chief Executive Officer & Director at Eidgenössische Materialprüfungs & Forschungsanstalt Empa. Dr. Bona is also Chairman of Stiftung Technopark Zürich and Member of Commission For Technology & Innovation and on the board of 5 other companies.

In his past career he held the position of Director-Tape Storage Solutions at International Business Machines Corp. Manager of IBM Research and Manager-Photonics Research at IBM Research GmbH (both are subsidiaries of International Business Machines Corp.), Director-Tape Storage Solutions at Ibm Server & Technology Group, Professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Professor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Gian-Luca Bona received a doctorate and an undergraduate degree from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.