- Currently
- Head of Engineering & Product, ReliefAI Health
- Based in
- Oakland, California · 37.80° N, 122.27° W
I turn emerging technology into products people can actually use.
Technology and product leader, inventor and hands-on builder. Today I build AI-enabled products for digital health. Before that, automotive systems, audio and connected devices, always from the first working prototype to the shipped product.
The path, every time
- 01Human experience
- 02Emerging technology
- 03Prototype
- 04Product
- 05Platform
- 06Venture
- U.S. patents granted
- 55+
- Patent applications
- 200+
- Years building new technology
- 15+
- ReliefAI HealthEmployee #1
- LG Electronics / LG NOVASilicon Valley Lab
- FaureciaCockpit of the Future
- HARMANFuture Experience Team
- HP / PalmAdvanced Prototyping
Prototypes that proved an idea, and products that shipped.
Seven of the twenty-one projects in the archive: a telehealth platform in hospitals, a speaker unveiled at Google I/O, ultrasonic haptics in a test vehicle, and headphones that became a JBL feature.
01Shipped ProductLG Electronics2021 — 2023
LG Telehealth Platform
LG's first market-ready telehealth product: virtual rounding, AI-assisted patient safety monitoring and an AI scribe, launched with Amwell.
02Working PrototypeHARMAN International2016
JBL × Google Soli Connected Speaker
A JBL home speaker controlled by radar-sensed micro-gestures and a light-feedback interface, unveiled live on stage at Google I/O 2016.
03Working PrototypeHARMAN International2014 — 2017
Mid-Air Haptic Feedback System
Ultrasonic transducer arrays that let drivers feel gestures in mid-air, from a JBL speaker at CES 2016 to a fully integrated test vehicle at CES 2017.
04Shipped ProductHARMAN International2014 — 2016
Audio Augmented Reality
A head-worn listening system that cancels, enhances, adds or replaces sounds in the world around you. It became JBL's Ambient Aware feature.
05Working PrototypeHARMAN International2014 — 2016
Eye Vergence & Gaze Sensing
A transparent in-vehicle display that knows whether you are looking at it or through it, and adapts what it shows to where you focus.
06Shipped ProductHARMAN International2016
Pupil-Based Driver Monitoring System
Measuring a driver's mental workload from pupil dilation with a single in-cabin camera. Shown at CES 2016, it became HARMAN's Driver Monitoring System.
07Working PrototypeHP / Palm2011
Augmented Reality Writing
A 3D pen that writes on any surface and in mid-air, with the ink rendered in augmented reality. Built in 2011, patented in 2018.
The same five steps, whether the result is a bench prototype or a hospital platform.
I start from a human need, find the emerging technology that can answer it, build working systems that prove the idea, and turn those ideas into products and businesses. Sometimes the order flips and a new technology comes first; the discipline is the same.
- 01
See
Find the opportunity. Start from a real human need, or a problem nobody has solved well, and understand it properly before touching technology.
- 02
Define
Find the emerging technology that can answer the need and shape a useful product or experience around it. Decide what it is for, who it is for, and why it is better.
- 03
Build
Create a working system. Hardware, firmware, software and interface, built well enough that people can try the idea for themselves.
- 04
Prove
Validate the technology and the experience with users, executives, partners and the press.
- 05
Productize
Turn it into a scalable product, platform or business, with the architecture, team and partners to ship it.
From corporate innovation labs to building a startup.
HP/Palm, HARMAN, Faurecia and LG: advanced R&D groups where the job was to build what did not exist yet. In 2025 that work moved from LG NOVA, LG’s venture-creation arm, into one of its ventures, ReliefAI Health, where I run engineering and product.
- Jun 2025 — PresentCurrentReliefAI HealthHead of Engineering & Product · Security and Compliance Officer · Head of IT
- Sep 2020 — Jun 2025LG Electronics / LG NOVAEmerging Technologies, CTO North America Innovation Office
- Jun 2018 — Apr 2020FaureciaInnovation Leader, Silicon Valley
- Feb 2017 — Mar 2020Viae Diversae ConsultingStrategic consulting
- Sep 2012 — Feb 2017HARMAN InternationalFuture Experience Team
- Jul 2009 — May 2012HP / PalmEmerging Platforms, webOS and Future Concepts
55+
U.S. patents. Almost every one began as a working prototype.
Audio augmented reality, eye vergence sensing, shape-shifting controllers, force-feedback headphones, augmented reality writing. Most were filed at HARMAN’s Future Experience Team, with earlier work at HP/Palm and later applications at LG.
Computer scientist by training, HCI researcher by practice, builder by habit.
I grew up in Bologna and have spent my career in Silicon Valley, moving between engineering, product, interaction design and hardware because difficult products need someone who can connect them. I have prototyped things that were ahead of their time and helped turn several of them into products that shipped.
Today I lead engineering and product at ReliefAI Health, an LG NOVA-backed behavioral health venture, as its first employee.
For conversations about product, engineering and emerging technology, or about building something hard.