CEO — Born in Pescara in 1971, Andrea Vecchi graduated in Computer Science in Pisa and worked as a researcher at the Scuola Normale di Pisa for the next five years, carrying out projects in the area of digitisation and enhancement of the national cultural heritage. In 1999, he founded Liberologico, a company geared towards the incubation of innovative product-oriented entrepreneurial ideas destined to become start-ups. This initiative gave rise to Cloudesire and Kiunsys, companies later acquired by the Engineering Group in which he held the role of CTO. Today he offers advisory and strategic consulting services to big enterprises and start-ups with high growth potential.

President — Associate Professor of Physiology at the School of Medicine of the University of Pisa is dedicated to research in neuroscience, in particular the sleep-wake cycle, Ugo Faraguna was born in Trieste in 1979, graduated in Medicine at the University of Pisa and then continued his studies at the “Center for Sleep and Consciousness” of Prof. Tononi in Madison-Wisconsin, USA. An alumnus of the School of Medical Sciences at the Scuola Sant’Anna, he is now President of the Alumni Association. He has published in the most relevant international neuroscience journals (including Nature, Neuroscience, etc.) and is a member of the Italian Association of Sleep Physicians (AIMS).

CTO — MSc in sport science and motor rehabilitation. PhD in biorobotics. Experienced in developing medical devices powered by artificial intelligence and edge sensing. He collaborated in academic research projects studying sleep physiology and human robot interaction.
University of Pisa and Scuola Sant’Anna Alumnus.

PRRC — Before starting to collaborate with Sleepacta, Hannah was instrumental in co-founding and building a surgical robotics company (MMI Inc.) from three to one hundred employees, taking on the role of VP Clinical Development & Medical Affairs and Board Member from 2015-2021. With a B.A. (Hons) in Neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Stanford, she brings a strong data-driven approach to the table. She has been named Top Female Founder and nominated among the Top 25 Voices in Healthcare Robotics 2020.

Cofounder, Chief Data Scientist – Evidation Health — He is a researcher and data scientist who has spent the last decade building intelligent systems to measure health and human behaviour. He is co-founder and Chief Data Scientist of Evidation Health and has previously held research and development positions at Google, Ask.com and CERN. His research interests include the development of big data algorithms, machine learning methods for extracting human and biological metrics as well as privacy and security research. Co-author of over 30 publications as well as several patents, Luca has supported regulatory bodies to facilitate the use of commercial wearable devices in clinical research.

Board member representing SAMBA Dream — Industry 4.0 expert, 20-year background in the manufacturing industry, brings a decade of experience in accompanying innovative start-ups especially in the digital and B2B fields. Founder of a startup with proprietary digital opportunity assessment and road mapping methodology. Passionate about data science, analytics, artificial intelligence applications, especially in the industrial field.  Lorna Vatta graduated in Management Engineering in Milan and obtained her MBA in Manchester; in recent years she managed a consulting company specializing in Lean Six Sigma, also collaborating with Deloitte Digital.

Board Member representing Red Lions — A graduate in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Pisa, Luigi Doveri has held various positions within the Forti Group and is now CEO of Forti Holding. The Holding has activities ranging from construction (private and public) to ecology, media and real estate development.

CEO — Born in Pescara in 1971, Andrea Vecchi graduated in Computer Science in Pisa and worked as a researcher at the Scuola Normale di Pisa for the next five years, carrying out projects in the area of digitisation and enhancement of the national cultural heritage. In 1999, he founded Liberologico, a company geared towards the incubation of innovative product-oriented entrepreneurial ideas destined to become start-ups. This initiative gave rise to Cloudesire and Kiunsys, companies later acquired by the Engineering Group in which he held the role of CTO. Today he offers advisory and strategic consulting services to big enterprises and start-ups with high growth potential.

President — Associate Professor of Physiology at the School of Medicine of the University of Pisa is dedicated to research in neuroscience, in particular the sleep-wake cycle, Ugo Faraguna was born in Trieste in 1979, graduated in Medicine at the University of Pisa.

Associate Professor of Physiology at the School of Medicine of the University of Pisa is dedicated to research in neuroscience, in particular the sleep-wake cycle, Ugo Faraguna was born in Trieste in 1979, graduated in Medicine at the University of Pisa and then continued his studies at the “Center for Sleep and Consciousness” of Prof. Tononi in Madison-Wisconsin, USA. An alumnus of the School of Medical Sciences at the Scuola Sant’Anna, he is now President of the Alumni Association. He has published in the most relevant international neuroscience journals (including Nature, Neuroscience, etc.) and is a member of the Italian Association of Sleep Physicians (AIMS).

Associate Professor in Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam, where he leads various research projects on the development of advanced data analysis and machine learning techniques. Author of several papers in relevant international journals, his primary area of research is the study of the neural basis of perception and sleep-wake rhythms. Born in 1983, he graduated in Biomedical Engineering in Pisa and was a full student at the Scuola Sant’Anna, where, during his PhD, he collaborated with Prof. Tononi (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, USA) in the study of the neural mechanisms of sleep. He has also worked at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.

Graduated in Science and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activities at the University of Pisa, Tommaso Banfi spent his training years at the Sonnolab laboratory directed by Prof. Faraguna, where he was dedicated to the application of actigraphy for the longitudinal and non-invasive study of sleep-wake rhythm. He then obtained a PhD in Biorobotics at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna where he studied the consequences of sleep deprivation and worked on the development of medical devices in research and commercial applications. He is currently engaged in the development of measurement systems and artificial intelligence applications.

Engineer graduated from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Nicolò Valigi is a software engineer and web architect. Visiting researcher at EPFL Lausanne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California and École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in Paris. In 2015, he won the Fulbright BEST grant to study entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley.

Dino Faraguna, born in Trieste in 1950, brings over thirty years of experience as head physician in pediatric hospitals and medical director in public and private hospitals. He is currently medical director of Polimedica in Pradamano (Udine). Among his various assignments, he has been medical director of IRCCS Burlo Garofolo in Trieste and director of the Materno Infantile Department and of the Complex Structures of Paediatrics of the Hospitals of Gorizia and Monfalcone. He is author of more than 200 publications in national and international journals and speaker at more than 120 national and international congresses.