BUGNION S.P.A. - Key Persons
Alessandro Cossu graduated from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, with a first-class honours M. Sc. degree in electronic engineering.
After graduation he served an internship at the research centre of the Italian public service broadcaster (RAI) in Turin. He subsequently worked as a radiofrequency engineer for Italy's second largest mobile telecommunications company (Omnitel, now Vodafone Italia), and then moved to Corning OTI, where he was in charge of designing lithium niobate electro-optical modulators.
From 2003 to 2017 he was a patent examiner at the European Patent Office in Munich in the technical domain of flat panel displays and nonlinear optics. He also served as an instructor for EPO's learning department and participated in several EPO missions to the industry, in particular Japanese applicants in the field of flat panel displays.
He successfully passed the European Qualifying Examination in 2016 and joined Bugnion in July 2017, where he currently works as a European patent consultant.
Professional experience
Clarissa Ceruti is a professional with more than 15 years of experience in technology transfer working both in the US and Italy.
Clarissa received a MS in Organic Chemistry at the University of Torino (Italy), a PhD in Biochemistry at the Medical School in Torino, Italy, and an MBA from Simmons College, Boston, MA.
Upon receiving her MBA, she worked with Prof. Gary Pisano and Henry Chesbrough at Harvard Business School, and with Prof. F Murray at the MIT Sloan School of Management studying different aspects of the biotech industry and its relationship with pharma companies. That experience made her realized how important is to understand the business aspects of science.
Since 2007 she has been working in technology transfer first at the University of Pennsylvania and then The Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, and more recently at the Bioindustry Park, Ivrea, Torino. In her role, she has managed and evaluated a portfolio of technologies negotiating license agreements, industry-sponsored research agreements, and option agreements.
At Bugnion, she is currently a Consultant in Tech Transfer and her expertise relates to:
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- General Manager
- General Manager / Milano
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- President
- President / Milano