Dr. Fabio Leoni received his Master Degree in Computer Science from Dipartimento di Informatica - University of Pisa, Italy in July 1997 and the Ph.D. in Robotics from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa and the University of Genova in 2001. He covered a Post-doc Fellow position at the BioRobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna assisting the management of the Industrial Research and Development (IRD) Group of SSSA leaded by Maria Chiara Carrozza. His main activity has regarded the management of industry relationships for the development of innovative industrial products and services through the exploitation of the industrial research activity performed by IRD Group combining fund raising in the framework of International, National, and local call for proposals. Since 2012 he has taken office as President of Fastenica S.R.L. (a spin-off company of SSSA) to exploit the industrial research activity performed by IRD Group. He has been also the CEO of TechnoDeal s.r.l. (a spin-off company of SSSA) in 2003 providing technical due diligences, business modelling, technology transfer services, process analysis, consulting and management services.