via Tommaseo, 77
35131 Padova, Italy
Ph.: +39 049 781 1811
Fax: +39 049 781 1899
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The Management is composed of managers and professionals who have initiated several successful high-tech businesses.
Ruggero
Frezza graduated in Electrical Engineering in the University of
Padova and became Master of Science and Ph.D. at the University of
California, Davis. During his career he was visiting scientist
and researcher in several Universities: the International Institute
for Applied System Analysis in Laxenburg (Austria), the Royal
Institute of Technology in Stoccolma, the University of Groningen in
Olanda and the University of California in Berkeley.
In Italy he
became Professor at the Department of Information Engineering in the
University of Padova. In that period he founded with his students and
collaborators six companies that operated in high tech industries,
from biomedical to wood industry and CAE instruments for the
automotive industry. In 2006 he founded M31 in order to support
young people to estabilish innovative technology projects and in
2008 Ruggero Frezza chose to abandon teaching to focus on
M31.
Today he is M31 Italia President
and Ceo.
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.
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