Norbert Becker
(Atoz) 

Norbert Becker held various senior executive positions in Andersen Worldwide and Ernst & Young Global. He was the founding partner of Andersen in Luxembourg, became Area Managing Partner for Central Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, India and the Middle East. He relocated to London and New York to assume responsibility for the global infrastructure at Andersen and was appointed Global Chief Financial Officer of Ernst & Young when Andersen combined their operations with EY. Norbert has extensive global business experience, and has advised many large groups on complex business issues involving financing, outsourcing, and taxation. Norbert has led many international M&A engagements for the firms he worked for. Norbert serves as Chairman of the Supervisory Committee of CIB Bank Ltd in Budapest, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Mangrove Capital Partners, Compagnie de Banque Privée, "CBP" and Atoz Tax Advisors, all in Luxembourg. He is the managing director of Intesa Sanpaolo Holding International S.A. in Luxembourg. He is also one of the managers of Edmond de Rothschild Europportunity Sicar in Luxembourg.

Maurizio Caio
(TLcom)

Maurizio Caio is a founder and Managing Partner of TLcom Capital LLP, where he has been focusing on communications technology, internet and digital media since the firm’s foundation in 1999. His current and past board positions include PacketFront in Sweden, Netscalibur in Italy, and Topica in the US. Prior to TLcom, he was a founding partner of Bain & Company in Italy and was - until April 1999 - a Director of Bain & Company, leading the firm's European TMT practice, and serving clients from the firm's European and San Francisco offices. Previously, he was with McKinsey and Company in Europe for four years, focusing on technology and growth strategy. He has spent 15 years advising CEO's and senior management of European and Silicon Valley telecommunications and technology companies on strategy, operations, commercial development and partnerships.

Maurizio has a Summa cum Laude Laurea degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and New York University, and an MBA from Stanford University. He also served as a Professor and Research Fellow in Strategic Planning and Control at Bocconi University in Milan and as an Instructor of Information Technology at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is based in London.

Knut Heitmann
(PolyTechnos)

Knut Heitmann – a venture capitalist and inventor, is a founding partner of PolyTechnos. He was a managing director of Freiberger Compound Materials, the world’s second largest producer of Gallium Arsenide wafers. Heitmann was the director of the technology monitoring division at Daimler Benz, where he was also responsible for corporate venture investments in the Middle East, Asia and the former U.S.S.R. Heitmann held a variety of posts at Ernst Leitz, the world leader in precision optics, including managing director. He ran R&D and Defense for the Swiss-German Wild-Leitz Group.

Along with his position on the Media Lario Technologies board, Heitmann is a board member of a number of venture capital groups and technology companies.

Heitmann is an inventor of 44 U.S. and internationally registered patents and is a member of the Jury of the German Innovation Prize and the Queen’s Prize of Higher & Further Education in the U.K. He is also a member of the board of Futur, a Swiss trust supporting Swiss start-up companies.

Heitmann received his degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Peter Bordui

Peter Bordui has been a director of Media Lario since December 2009 and chairman since April 2010. He is also currently chairman of BeamExpress SA, a developer of energy-efficient lasers for communications, director of Polytech Ventures, a Swiss seed-capital investment fund, and director of American Citizens Abroad, a non-profit organization supporting American citizens residing outside the US.

In the past ten years, he has served as director or chairman of a number of public and private technology companies in Europe and the US.

He previously worked in executive management of technology business, having served as Vice President and General Manager within both Siemens Corporation and JDSU, Inc.

He started his career in research and development of electronic materials and holds six patents in the field.

He did university studies at MIT, where he earned bachelor’s, master’s and PhD degrees from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

Giovanni Nocerino
President & Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Giovanni Nocerino has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Media Lario Technologies since January 2004. He brings to the company more than 25 years of experience gained in management and key executive roles in the Semiconductor device and Equipment industries.

Giovanni Nocerino started his Semiconductor career with ST, in the late 1970’s, where his responsibilities ranged from Process Engineering to Fab. Management. He moved into Semiconductor Equipment Business in the early 1980’s by joining Varian Associates where he ran Varian Semiconductor Equipment business Europe and then moved to the US where he became Vice President and General Manager of Varian’s Semiconductor Equipment Business. He was responsible for Worldwide Sales and Marketing and oversaw a substantial growth during his tenure. To enhance and broaden his business experience, Dr. Nocerino moved from a large sized Company to a Start-Up by joining CVC Inc., where he was Executive Vice President of CVC Inc. responsible for their Field Operation, Marketing and the launch of new products. He was part of the team that made the Company public. After CVC was acquired by VEECO, Giovanni joined SpeedFam-Ipec as part of a newly formed management team to help the Company regain a stronger market share in CMP. He served as Executive Vice President, responsible for their Worldwide Field Operation and Marketing until SpeedFam- Ipec was acquired by Novellus. Post SpeedFam- Ipec, he joined the new Thermawave Management team for a brief period prior to moving into his current role of President and CEO of Media Lario Technologies.

Giovanni Nocerino holds a PhD in Solid State Electronics from Manchester University and a Joint Honours degree in Physics and Electronic Engineering from the same University.

Dennis Atkinson
(DFJ-ePlanet Ventures)

Dennis Atkinson is a General Partner of ePlanet Ventures, based in London and focusing principally on the Fund’s EMEA investments.

Dennis has been involved in many of ePlanet Ventures successful investments, including: Skype (sold to eBay), End2End (sold to Mach), First Hop (sold to Airwide Solutions), and HPL (sold to Dow).

Prior to joining ePlanet, Dennis was a Principal at Softbank Europe Ventures, where he specialized in Internet, software, and data-communications investments.

Prior to joining Softbank, Dennis was Global Product Manager for Reuters Business Information, designing and developing IP based information systems. Whilst also at Reuters, Dennis evaluated acquisition and new-venture opportunities in the technology and telecoms sectors in Europe, working closely with Reuters research groups in London and California on next generation IP based information products.

He holds a First Class Honors Bachelor of Science Degree in Physics and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tetsuo Tsuneishi
(TEL)

Tetsuo (Tom) Tsuneishi has been appointed as Vice Chairman of the Board of Tokyo Electron Limited (TEL) in June of 2003. He has been employed at TEL for over 29 years, serving in a variety of senior management positions, including General Manager of Overseas Operations and the SPE Division, Director and Senior Managing Director as well as Executive Vice President of the company.

Prior to joining TEL, Tsuneishi graduated from Osaka University’s Department of Communications Engineering.

Arnoldo Valenzuela
(MLT)

Arnoldo Valenzuela Ph.D., Chief Scientific Officer—has served in this capacity at Media Lario Technologies since January 2004. From 1999 until 2003 he was president and CEO; and from 1995 to 1998, Dr. Valenzuela served as the Company’s managing director. Prior to joining Media Lario Technologies, Dr. Valenzuela was director of scientific programs and responsible for business development and marketing strategy at Kayser-Threde GmbH, a German provider of complete space systems from launch to recovery.
Also in Germany, from 1971 through 1994, Valenzuela was senior scientist and leading investigator at the Max Planck Institut (MPE).

From 1986 until 1988, Valenzuela was president of the Argentine National Commission for Space Research. A board member of Argentina ’s National Commission for Space Research, Valenzuela was the Argentine representative to the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space within the United Nations’ General Assembly.
Internationally recognized for scientific achievement, Valenzuela has garnered awards from the International Academy of Astronautics (2), NASA (2), and European Space Agency (1). He has three international patent applications and is an active member of the International Academy of Astronautics, Academy of Space Sciences: Argentina, and many professional scientific organizations.

In addition to his current responsibilities at Media Lario Technologies, Valenzuela serves as chairman of both the Commission IV and the Committee on Small Satellite Missions for the International Academy of Astronautics.

Valenzuela holds a Ph.D. in physics and a M.S. in physics from the National University of Cuyo, Argentina. He received a B.Sc. in electronics from the University of Córdoba, Argentina.