Expertise and areas of interest: Retail Tech, Med Tech, IoT, Healthcare, D2C Brands, last mile logistics, Buy and Build;

FrescoFrigo is the smart Fridge that, leveraging proprietary and state of the art IoT technologies, provides modern consumers with fresh, healthy, high quality meals.#IoT #Foodtech

Checkout Technologies creates AI-powered technologies to reshape and enhance the relationship between physical retailers and shoppers.I was hired to boost the company's execution plan, that led to the successful Exit.

I was involved in several open innovation projects that, leveraging design thinking techniques, shared the goal to support consolidated businesses finding new markets and adjacent opportunities.

WIB is a high-tech company, operating across EU and the USA, driven by the mission to merge online and physical sale channels, through its patented Automated Retail Technologies. I founded WIB in Nov-2013 with the aim to become the global leader in our industry.Beside inventing the patented multi picking handling technology, as a passionate and driven founder, I also managed the most relevant technical and business related activities, needed to start and launch the company successfully.Sharing my vision with my team and all the stakeholders involved, I was able to:- Reach the Intel Business Challenge Europe finals (Dublin 2013);- Raise €2.5M from VC funds and institutional investors such as Vertis SGR and Unicredit Bank; - Close one of the most successful crowdfunding campaign in Europe;- Build and lead a highly skilled R&D team with expertise in IoT, Cloud and Robotics;- Start our own manufacturing plant from scratch and the assembly line for our Automated Dispensing Robots and Smart Locker solutions;- Protect the company’s Intellectual Property internationally with granted patents and design models in Europe, USA, China and Japan;- Sell our products to international early adopter customers;Starting and leading WIB, has been one of the most intense, formative and fulfilling adventures of my professional life so far.#IoT #AutomatedRetail

WIB USA is the North American subsidiary of the Italian startup WIB srl which fully owns and controls the entity.The company was established in January 2016 to grow the business opportunities within the main automated retail market globally.

Kineo is a Mechatronic design company with strong expertise in R&D activities within the following fields:- Development and prototyping of multispectral vision systems based on embedded PC.- Development and prototyping of innovative and modular vending machines.- Development and prototyping of aptic and touch HMI.- Development and prototyping of mechatronic systems for civil and industrial applications.- Development and prototyping Wireless power transmission systems.

Idea is an industrial Research and Development accelerator.During my collaboration with Idea I followed the development of the following products:- multispectral remote sensing device for UAVs;- bioplastic mechanical resistance lab tester;- modular handling robots for vending and automated warehouse applications

SeedLab is the entrepreneurship program that provides micro-seed funding and best-in-class training and mentorship to help promising start-ups succeed. The program consists of an intensive track, to help innovators with a good technology or business idea build strongest business models, form effective teams and meet international investors.

Centro Ricerche Fiat, founded in 1978, has the mission to develop and transfer innovative products, processes and methodologies in order to improve the competitiveness of the products of the Fiat Group. Also through the cooperation with a pan-European and increasingly global network of more than 1700 partners from Industry and academia, CRF conducts collaborative research initiatives at the national and international levels in partnership with all the key public and private stakeholders concerned with Sustainable Mobility, targeting specifically the industrial exploitation of research.With a workforce of approximately 1000 full-time professionals, CRF develops research and innovation along the three principal axes of sustainability: Environmental Sustainability, which encompasses all aspects relating to energy efficiency as well as to the reduction of the impact on the environment over the entire lifecycle of the vehicle; Social Sustainability, focusing on the safety of transportation systems through the development of active, passive, preventive and cooperative solutions while addressing the mobility of all users irrespective of their specific needs; Economically sustainable competitiveness, oriented towards viable innovation, i.e., improving the performance and functionality of new vehicles in a cost-effective manner while reducing the time-to-market of research results.R&D activities developed:- Wireless power supply of devices in automotive use.- Technologies and solutions for autonomous wireless sensor networks query (RFID, SAW);- High frequency current driver;- Electronic driver for SMA actuators