Advisory Board Fondo InfraTech CDP Cassa Depositi e PrestitiScientific Committee ENI ROADConsiglio di Amministrazione Fondazione R&I (until June 2024)Gruppo per la Mobilità Sostenibile, Fondazione per la Sostenibilità Digitale

Grycle is a technology based startup, focused on mechatronics. It is currently developing a device meant for waste management.Here is our patented technology: https://vimeo.com/232992709International patent 102017000116498 (coinventor).

Manage Innovation Lab and Centre for Intellectual Property, Partnerships, Proof of Value

Innovation management at DIG, Department of Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering

Corner Stones is an independent investment vehicle born to support the industrial development of technological and commercial, radically innovative solutions, through collection of private capitals.Corner Stones responds to the need for concrete tools for a scalable and sustainable growth of new entrepreneurship initiatives with a strong innovative attitude. The mission of Corner Stones is to concretely realize innovation, picking raw diamonds and transforming them into valuable enterprises.Corner Stones focuses its funding and R&D exclusively on high potential projects.CES Innovation Awards judge in Cybersecurity & Personal Privacy category at CES 2020.

SSM Technology actively develops new materials and application processes to enable its customers to get to where the world is going in the next 5 to 10 years in terms of building new innovative products with qualities never seen before.

Head of external relationships since 2016.President since 2015 to 2016.Head of startup mentoring from 2012 to 2015.---InnoVitamins (InnoVits) is a non-profit initiative founded by the AlumniMIP Association and the MIP - Business School - Politecnico di Milano.InnoVits'​ challenge is to support innovative business ideas and young entrepreneurs, providing them with professional instruments and business opportunities. InnoVits runs an ideas competition with the purpose of selecting and nurturing the best innovative business ideas.I contributed as mentor (helping entrepreneurs develop their business plan and pitch) and managed external relationships with industrial and communication partners.Raised €5mln of funding by our startups. Promoted crowdfunding campaings.On behalf of InnoVits I participated, as guest evaluating judge, in the Innovation Challenge IIBA 2012/13, 2013/14 and 2014/15.Speaker at GEC 2015 - Global Entrepreunership Congress http://gec.co/ - http://gec.co/users/danpesMember of 2015 Everis Foundation Awards scientific committee http://fundacioneveris.com/Member of the Jury at Junior Achievement University startup competition 2016 http://www.jaitalia.org/2016/06/20/university-startup-competition-2016/Speaker at Information Technology Forum 2017 http://www.informationtechnologyforum.it/appuntamenti-area-expo/Speaker at Seeds&Chips 2017Member of Jury at IT CUP 2017 by Registro.itSpeaker at Utility Day 2017 http://utilityday.it/pgn/speaker/Speaker at Retail Forum - Future Lab 2017 http://www.forumretail.com/speaker/speakerExternal Lecturer at Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Gestionale (in collaboration with Prof. Roberto Bianchini and Annalisa Croce) in the course of Economics and Business Management - May 2018

As President I managed a major change in InnoVits which had opened and accredited by partnering with bank insitutions, universities and business schools, industries.The number of associate managers has doubled and InnoVits has set the stage for its sustainable upcoming growth.In one year InnoVits was able to realize positive cash, ready to be invested in further evolution.

Scouted new Products and services and created end-to-end processes to get them to unconventional, B2B (Large Retailers - GDO - Enterprise customers) and B2C (Small Retailers: 260 Direct shops - e-commerce), customers (develop commercial ideas from inception to pilot). Proof of Concepts and Proof of Market.Head of IT R&D (directed team of six). Managed the evolution of the ERP through a SOA, own architecture.Partnered with Fondazione Edoardo Garrone.Collaborated in the development of two research projects with Politecnico di Milano University.Contributed to the trasformation and growth of Altromercato - one of the biggest Fair Trade organizations worldwide - selling food, fashion, cosmetics and handcrafts (www.altromercato.it)Altromercato Group has a turnover of more than 50M€, serving 400 shops in Italy with commercial and fair trade relationships with more than 140 producers worldwide.

Contributed to design from scratch the model and governance of the new strategic function.Worked on internal communication (design and creativity of Fastweb's "Manifesto of innovation", rewarding and intellectual property policies, budget). Interacted with Learning & Development department to develop an educational program for Innovation.Cooperated with the New Business Development strategic function on Internet of Things - IoT.Designed a tailored model of Open Innovation based on startups scouting through accelerators and incubators communities.Scouted and injected a marketplace for new added value services on top of cloud www.fabbricadinuvole.itSupervised deployment of POC for innovative Wi-FI services.Designed and developed the innovation strategy tailoring the most suitable industrial best practice to company needs and requirements.Facilitated relationships between Brand Management and third party crowdfunding providers.Represented FASTWEB at Confindustria Digitale 'Innovazione Start Up e Smart Communities' steering committee.Partecipated in a European Union tender with a Telemedicine project, part of Horizon 2020 programme.On behalf of FASTWEB I participated in 2014, as guest evaluating judge, in the startup contest named startcup (http://www.startcupml.net/), 2014 edition.

operational and strategic risks definition in comparison with company risk appetiterisk-related dossiers and risk map updates, direct report to Corporate CROdossiers for the CSO, CFO, COO, CEO and Board of Directorsfollow-up activities with audit officercomplete lifecycle project management in front-end and back-end infrastructurescustomised solutions for key accounts related to 3rd party suppliescross-functional business and technical needs alignmentrisk management function development from scratchinnovation business unit steering committeeproblem solving initiativesdirect communication channel with the Swisscom risk officeknowledge of COSO Frameworkwon Fastweb contest on innovation (first edition of InnovAction, 2011) with a 21% cost saving project on Telemedicine (e-health): composed and managed the work group, developed the Business Plan, pitched to the board - here is the final pitch: https://vimeo.com/164141808

process analysisdesign of new content delivery networkunderperforming group turnaround to best-in-class reputationlarge account project completiontechnical scoutingAs consultant for Omnia Comunicazioni s.r.l.:design of new channel portals for Fastweb IP Televisiondesign, development, testing and deployment managementexternal consultant groups management

I had been a partner since when it was a startup named Axess Solutions s.r.l. I managed the exit and negotiated the sale of my shares in 2012.technical presales support to vendorscommercial offers processingrequirements gathering from customersnew service designbusiness requirements translation into seamless technical implementationcompany representation at international fairsmajor account contract managementIn R&D (Software Engineer):design and implementation of enterprise, distributed applications (linux, windows)integration with SAP HR PDC moduleSAP module developmentproject turnaround to superb revenue generationamong best projects of the year in 2006 at the annual Axess world conference in Bologna for designing, implementing and certifying a new, best of breed, SAP HR PDC interfacing module (2004-08)

Occasionally (as a 2nd job) worked as consultant (CTU) in civil suits (process analysis on industrial plants) on manufactoring and process industry. [Public Administration]

quality planningwebsite and quality software programmingclient R&D consultingdistributed applications design and modellingconfiguration management policy software engineering instruction on UML (Unified Communication Language) and design patternsspinoff partnershipsOn behalf of INQuaS, I taught Software Engineering (UML, Design Patterns) as External Lecturer at Università Cattaneo Castellanza LIUC

data migration software design and programmingeasy setting language usability optimisation of GUI technical tool developmentefficiency and installation time improvement for international customersoperating cost reduction

Worked as a tutor at the electronic engineering departmentAdministrative website design and programming