General Management

Alessandro Rufo

Founder & CEO

Serial entrepreneur, passionate about business and visionary innovations. Master Degree in Automation and Control Engineering, expert in Product Development.

Fabio Manzi

Founder & CFO

Global serial entrepreneur and business angel with a strong background in Cognitive Sciences, boosted by years of research in Neuroeconomics.

Dr. Gabriele Piergiovanni

AI Lab Director & Shareholder

Ph.D. in Life Sciences with a strong background in R&I and entrepreneurship. Expertise in venture building, business analysis, and grant management.

Research & Development

Dr. Krati Saxena

ML senior engineer

AI researcher specialising in NLP, computer vision, and knowledge graphs, GenAI, healthcare AI and leveraging AI to create transformative technologies.

Federico Jurado

ML senior engineer

Expert in Machine Learning, Generative AI, bioinformatics and genetics with a focus in methodology research

Product Development

Dr. Giorgio Maria De Rango

Head of Product Development & Shareholder

Software engineer with a wide experience in knowledge extraction from natural language and its usage in real life applications.

Dr. Saurabh Gupta

LLMs senior engineer

Data Privacy & Machine Learning aexpert.

Antal Bakó

Full stack software engineer

Expert in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, and web frameworks to build scalable applications and streamline processes.

Project Management

Javier Miranda

Project Manager

Master ́s Degree in International Business Management and Project Management, he has successfully coordinated more than 100 European projects helping top-class SMEs to raise more than 37 million euros under the EU Framework Programme H2020 and HE.

Isabelle Gordge

Project Manager and Shareholder

Experienced project manager. Achieved reputable results for international SMEs and start-ups both within Europe and further afield in sectors ranging from sustainable and renewable energy to ICT and healthcare to agriculture.

Afonso Cerqueira

Operative Officer

BSc and an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of Aveiro

Project Procurement

Dr. Akhila Bommakanti

Senior Venture Engineer

Expert in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, specializing in leveraging AI and bio-based innovations to address complex technological challenges.

Sania Iqbal

Venture Engineer

Expert in emerging technologies, strategic project planning, research and business development. Skilled as an IT Engineer and Pursuing a Doctorate in Computer Science Engineering.

Libin Thomas

Venture Engineer

Researcher with expertise in Computer Networks, skilled at conceptualizing innovative solutions, aligning business strategies with research-driven product development and managing collaborations with domain experts to drive research efforts.

Rizwan Jafar

Venture Engineer

Expert in Brain Machine Interface, Product Design, Machine Learning, Robotics and Automation

Sales and Marketing

Miroslava Babincakova

Head of Sales & Marketing

Expertise in public and private funding opportunities in the EU and USA, including business development and scale-up support. Experience working across a wide spectrum of worldwide partners.

Ayesha Majid

Communications Specialist

Marketing professional with more than 10 years of experience in strategic planning, digital marketing, brand management, and market research.

Mentors And Shareholders

Cristina Becchio

Chief Scientist and Shareholder

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Dr. Guido Manzi

Head of mathematical modelling and Shareholder

Experienced researcher leading AI technologies development with significant economic and social potential, with the intention of rapidly bringing them to market.

Dr. Gianluigi Bardelloni

Head of ML, NLP, and Generative-AI and Shareholder

Expert in Machine Learning, NLP and Knowledge Graphs to improve customer related business processes and generate value.

Dr. James W.A. Strachan

Cognitive Science

Prof. Enrico Cervellati

Behavioural Finance

Prof. Jan Engelmann

Behavioural Economics

Prof. Michael Graziano

Neuroscience & Psychology

Dr. Dianbo Liu

Machine learning research and applied projects

Dr. Alex Lamb

Generalisation performance of deep networks

Prof. Sabine Köszegi

AI Ethics