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

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

Board Member

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

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

CTO

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

Technical Lead

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

Customer Success Manager

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

Blockchain Advisor

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

Luxury Business Advisor

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

Supply Chain Advisor

Executive. 25y supply chains with international corporations and startups in the hi- tech, FMCG, industrial, fashion & retail.
FREDERIC LAUCHENAUER

Financial Advisor

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

Innosuisse Coach

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

Our success to date

+300%

GROWTH YOY

2021 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

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About us

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

Leadership

MATTEO PANZAVOLTA

NICOLA FANTINI

MICHAEL BOYLE

Key Team Members

ROMAN KOCEMBA

ROSSANA RICCO-RODGERS

DEJAN MILENOVIC

SARAH MEROLA

SERGEY PONOMAREV

ALESSANDRO TACCONELLI

FERNANDO REY GAIDO

MILOSZ TOKARSKI

IVAN MILJKOVIC

Advisors

AERON BUCHANAN

ALESSANDRO BRUN

LORENZO FORNAROLI

FREDERIC LAUCHENAUER

MARCUS OSWALD

Our success to date

GROWTH YOY

COUNTRIES

PATENTS FILED

KEY VERTICALS

Partnering with

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