Alessandro joined Imperial Innovations in April 2010 as a Senior Technology Executive covering the technology transfer of the Engineering, Energy and ICT areas.. He spent over twelve years in business development and product innovation in collaboration with some major customers in the automotive and aerospace industries. He led cross-functional. teams to achieve increasingly demanding goals in complex and large programmes, ranging from expanding the market by developing and delivering innovative products and services within time, cost and quality, to localising products to some emerging markets.. Alessandro has a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin, an MBA from the Imperial College Business School London and is a Chartered Engineer with the Italian Professional Order.