Andrea Baldini Email & Phone Number

Milan, It

Milano, Mi, It

SYS-DAT is a company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange, Euronext Milan STAR segment

Member of the Board of Directors of CageEye AS

Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, De

Member of the Advisory Board of uBirch GmbH

Leganés, Madrid, Es

Member of the Board of Directors of Canard Drones Ltd (parent company of Canard Drones SL)

Basingstoke, Hampshire, Gb

Member of the Board of Directors of RazorSecure Limited

Amsterdam, North Holland, Nl

Member of the Board of Directors of Connecterra Holdings Limited (parent company of Connecterra BV)

Bristol, Bristol, Gb

Member of the Board of Directors of Zeetta Networks Limited

London, Gb

• Senior Manager responsible for deal sourcing, due diligence, investment negotiation and closing;• Responsible for portfolio monitoring, including cash management and support in follow-on funding;• In charge of cyber-security, networking, and ag-tech verticals, an expert in deep tech and Internet-of-Things and broad markets such as critical infrastructure, transportation, smart-city, and food;• Board member of eight portfolio companies in the UK, Italy, Germany, France, and Norway, with subsidiaries in the USA, Spain, and the Netherlands;• Key results: 9 investments in Europe, UK, USA, 1 exit to Cisco, significant follow-on rounds raised.

San José, Californie, Us

Former Member of the Board of Directors (Comité de Suivi) of Sentryo SAS, acquired by Cisco and now part of Cisco's Internet of Things (IoT) Business Group

Milan, Lombardy, It

Member of the Board of Directors (Consiglio di Amministrazione) of Amiko Srl

Trento, Trento, It

Co-created and jump-started TechPeaks start-up and people accelerator within TrentoRISE new business creation, with the first intake of 72 people in May 2013. Responsible for strategy and program structure, reporting directly to the Managing Director. Managed international mentor network and global partnerships. Consultant on business and finance of start-up companies and growth acceleration.

Berlin, De

Participated in Earlybird’s operations in Munich and Milan as an intern and an entrepreneur. Held deal flow responsibilities, including technology, market and financial evaluation, at Earlybird Venture Capital in Munich. Created a network in the Italian start-up ecosystem, with deal-flow responsibility for over 500 deals per year. Participated in all aspects of fundraising and due diligence for Earlybird in Italy after 2011 and to mid-2013.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Managed up to 8 direct reports (top Universities Masters and PhDs) and up to 3 projects at any given time in business and software development (6 to 12 months), with consistently positive 360 feedbacks;• Pitched business ideas and technical analyses to Cisco's CTO, VPs/SVPs of large business units and “Cisco Distinguished Engineers and Fellows,” resulting in top-level evaluations in performance reviews;• Designed the “Most innovative Product in Cisco (Nexus 7000)” in collaboration with a large development team in the Data-Center Business Unit.

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Developed and analyzed models of complex networking hardware and systems, performed bottleneck analyses, presenting key results and potential solutions to the SVP/GM of the Data Center Business Unit. • Invented four patents in networking and storage, including parts of Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology that revolutionized storage networking and pushed toward market consolidation. • Designed architectures and algorithms for Cisco Data-Center and Storage product lines.

Torino, Turin, It

Research experiences included management of National and European projects and management and tutoring of Master level students.Teaching experience included: • Teaching Assistant for course 01BKK Language Compilers – Master Level – Spring 2002 & Spring 2003 • Lecturer for course EECS/ECE 565 – University of Illinois – Advanced Switching Theory – Master Level – Spring 2001 & Fall 2002.

• Independent consultant in networking and network security;• Research activities on networking, before Ph.D. (Cisco - Politecnico di Torino);• Research activities on system-level testing, during Master thesis (Magneti Marelli - Politecnico di Torino).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, Entrepreneurship

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Engineering

Master Of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering And Computer Science

B.S. And M.S. (5-Year Laurea), Computer Engineering