About us

We make the world a more connected, transparent and authentic place by enabling instantaneous verifiable trust across entire value chains.

We are a Swiss company founded in 2018 to support brands in fighting against counterfeiting and diversion through an advanced Authenticity and Traceability as a Service platform.

Today, by combining the power of blockchain with multiple proprietary IoT devices, we protect the authenticity, prevent the diversion and provide real time traceability for both physical and digital products and assets such as NFTs.

Leadership

Successful entrepreneurship experience

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    MATTEO PANZAVOLTA

    CEO

    Executive. 18+ y in Operations and Marketing in GE, Honeywell, Alstom. P&L up to $300M. Former Head of Innovation. IEMBA University of St. Gallen. Top100 Swiss Digital Shapers

  • NICOLA FANTINI

    NICOLA FANTINI

    Board Member

    Serial tech entrepreneur and angel investor. SICTIC board member and jury President. BoD and CEO Spectas, ScaleTools, CloudBroker.

  • MICHAEL BOYLE

    MICHAEL BOYLE

    Strategy advisor, USA

    Experienced CIO/COO, Fortune 100 executive, startup advisor. 30 y in tech startup & venture capital.

Key Team Members

We are a group of passionate authenticity seekers spread around the world, with in-depth vertical skills

  • ROMAN KOCEMBA

    ROMAN KOCEMBA

    CFO

    Executive. 15y in industrial sector in Finance and Operations. IEMBA HSG.

  • ROSSANA RICCO-RODGERS

    CMO

    Executive. 20+ y Digital transformation, products dev and strategic planning. AI, Blockchain, IoT & Advanced Analytics.

  • DEJAN MILENOVIC

    DEJAN MILENOVIC

    CTO

    Industrial Internet of Things expert. Tech Entrepreneur. 20y in Industrial Product Development.

  • SARAH MEROLA

    SARAH MEROLA

    Pharma Vertical Leader

    5+ y in Business Dev and Business Unit Management in Life Sciences at Agidens AG. Quality Resp. & Academy Coord.
    Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology at University of Pavia.

  • SERGEY PONOMAREV

    SERGEY PONOMAREV

    Technical Lead

    12y as technical project leader. Projects in different areas: audit, visualization of big data, images processing.

  • ALESSANDRO TACCONELLI

    ALESSANDRO TACCONELLI

    Customer Success Manager

    Expert in the premium food & wine productions. Author of a wine dictionary. MS in Food & Wine technology & economy.

  • FERNANDO REY GAIDO

    FERNANDO REY GAIDO

    Customer Success Manager

    Tech-savvy lawyer, experience in Blockchain projects. 10+ y leading major industrial contracts at YPF.

  • MILOSZ TOKARSKI

    MILOSZ TOKARSKI

    IoT Product Developer

    Experience with management and development of electronics and mechanics projects. 2y experience with intellectual property management at an international company. MS in Automatization and Robotics.

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    IVAN MILJKOVIC

    Business Development Manager

    Former volleyball Olympic champion from Sydney 2000. 20+ years in sport in different positions (playing, governance, marketing, campaigns, management) combining business school education with experience from sport & finance.

Advisors

The best experts’ guidance for every challenge

  • AERON BUCHANAN

    AERON BUCHANAN

    Blockchain Advisor

    Member of the original Ethereum team as COO Europe. Executive VP Web3Foundation.

  • ALESSANDRO BRUN

    ALESSANDRO BRUN

    Luxury Business Advisor

    Director Global Executive Ms of Luxury Management (GEMLux) (Polit. Milano). Expert of quality & supply management in luxury markets.

  • FREDERIC LAUCHENAUER

    FREDERIC LAUCHENAUER

    Financial Advisor

    Angel Investor. 25y in supply chain & operations in Givaudan, Syngenta and Monsanto.

  • MARCUS OSWALD

    MARCUS OSWALD

    Innosuisse Coach

    CEO Innovationfund SZKB. Coach, Angel Investor & Advisor to top Swiss startups.

Our success to date

  • 3X

    GROWTH YOY

    2021 and 2022 acceleration

  • 75+

    COUNTRIES

    Customer products with our technology

  • 11

    PATENTS FILED

    in US and EU

  • 5

    KEY VERTICALS

    Pharma, Luxury, Industrial, Agro/Food & Bev., Sports & Entertainment

Partnering with

Authena protects the authenticity of leading brands

  • Authena x McLaren
  • Authena x Neom
  • lonza
  • Authena for USM
  • regal
  • Crypto Valley - Authena
  • Wine 2 Wine - Authena
  • ARENI Global -Authena
  • Fragrances of the World - Authena
  • Innosuisse - Authena
  • masque milano
  • Authena for Casella Meyer
  • Authena for klub Crvena zvezda
  • Authena per Calé
  • Authena for Ryser Boden
  • travar logo
  • schuler logo
  • Appenzeller
  • drofar logo
  • gador logo
  • Esxence - Authena
  • Malbrum
  • Milano Fragranze_ Authena
  • ETH Zurich - Authena
  • ZHAW
  • Authena Metaverse Standard forum
  • NFC forum - Authena
  • Swisstech - Authena
  • EIT Food _ Authena

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