Leadership

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.

Afonso Cerqueira Martins

Chief Operations Officer

M.Sc in Biochemistry with a background in deep-tech commercialisation and EU innovation funding. Expertise in project management, operations and go-to-market execution.

Dr. Gabriele Piergiovanni

Chief Marketing Officer

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

Giorgio Maria De Rango

Chief Technology Officer

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

Team

Filippo Compagni

Project Manager

EU affairs and funding practitioner specialising in Horizon Europe project management, grant agreement preparation, and policy analysis. Extensive experience delivering EU-funded projects across public and private consortia.

Dr. Akhila Bommakanti

Senior Venture Engineer

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

Mentors and Advisers

Prof. Dr. Cristina Becchio

Chief Scientist

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

Dr. Guido Manzi

Head of mathematical modelling

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

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

Prof. Dr. Clare Mutzenich

Strategic Advisor, Autonomous Mobility

Expert in human factors and AI-driven mobility, leading UDrive’s business development, safety, and regulatory strategy.

Rav Babbra

Strategic Advisor, Autonomous Mobility

Expert in autonomous vehicle safety, specialising in edge-case testing and operational risk analysis.

Dr. James W.A. Strachan

Cognitive Science

Prof. Dr. Jan Engelmann

Behavioural Economics

Prof. Dr. 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