Marco Arese
Director
Marco Arese is a co-founder and a general partner in RockRidge Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital fund and investment firm. He currently serves on the board of a number of software, media and energy companies including RMS Networks, AsiaDemand, Ambienta SGR and Trialpha Energy.
Graduate at Berkley Mr. Arese started his career with Citibank in Milan and London, designing financial reporting software for multinational clients.
He was a co-founder of Hyperion Software, which provides financial management applications to major U.S. and European multinationals.
Mr. Arese was co-founder and co-managing partner of Digital Media Capital LLC, a private venture capital firm based in Stamford, Connecticut, where he invested in seed and early stage Internet and Intranet related software and communications companies such as Critical Path and Sandpiper  Networks.
In 1998, he became a special limited partner in Pequot Venture Partners LP, the venture arm of  Pequot Capital Management.

François de Brabant
Director
Chairman and Managing, Director of Between a leading strategic and technological consultancy firm operating in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT), with particular focus on telecommunications.
Founding partner of RESEAU, the first ICTand TLC research and consultancy firm in Italy and, later Manager of Strategies, Planning and Innovation of Telecom Italia.

He has been the creator of “Osservatorio della Banda Larga” , a project born in 2002, aimed at monitoring the evolution of Broadband. This is achieved together with the Minister for Innovation and Technology and the Ministry of Communications. From 1981 to 1982 he was a member of the Commission for Electronics Program at the Ministry of Industry and member of the working group on telecommunications  for the Premiership. Born in Milan, Mr. de Brabant received a degree in Economics at the Bocconi University in Milan.

Piero Ferreri
Director
Graduated with a master in Aerospace Engineering in Milano, Italy, Piero soon changed direction and started a career in the Banking industry as a financial analyst. In the early 80s became an independent consultant installling mainframe-based financial reporting systems for large corporations and became a major contributor to the success of the Connecticut-based IMRS Inc. The company, later renamed Hyperion Solutions was eventually acquired by Oracle. In late 1999 Piero joined the founders of Outlooksoft and played a significant role in the design and implementation of a new generation of corporate performance management software, until the company was acquired by SAP in 2007.
Piero is married and has two boys in the teens. He is a private pilot and built his own airplane. He also has a sail boat and once was (and probably still is) a decent jazz and rock drummer. He speaks fluent Italian, English and French.

Maurizio di Robilant
Director