General Manager

Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Padova, Italy. His first experience as an entrepreneur dated back to 1982, when he started ECS based in Padua. In 1986, was co-founder and Managing Director of Venture Srl, a company that dealt with industrial automation and computerized machine tools. In 1990 he started Fortune Srl, a company that developed computerized instruments for the eye-care; Fortune soon became part of Tomey Corporation of Nagoya (Japan). In 1995 he was appointed European R&D Manager Group Tomey based in Erlangen, Germany.
In 1998, Mr. Cocchiglia bought back the company he founded and resold it to the Nidek Group based in Gamagori (Japan) with the name of Fortune Technologies. After three years of growth and consolidation, in 2001, the company took the name of Mother Company, becoming Nidek Technologies, of which Mr. Cocchiglia had been Vice President and Managing Director until March 2008.
In 2006 he co-founded M31 Italia and became its General Manager in 2008.
He currently serves as the President and the CEO of two portfolio companies: Si14 and CenterVue.
Aldo established M31 USA in 2010 and serves as its CEO.