Summary
Maurizio Caporali is a product and design-driven technology executive who currently serves as Chief Product Officer at SECO, where he leads Edge, IoT, and Edge-AI product strategy and platform development. Over a decade he has taken hardware-software products from concept to market—leading platforms like Clea and Edgehog and more than 15 industrial computer lines—while integrating AI chip optimization and LLMs for edge inference. He co-created the UDOO family and ran four Kickstarter campaigns that raised $2.5M and seeded over 130k devices worldwide, proving an ability to combine product vision, community momentum, and commercial execution. His background as an adjunct professor and PhD-trained researcher in telematics informs a user-centric, research-driven approach to interaction and service design. Comfortable bridging hardware, embedded software, and cloud services, he focuses on building recurring-value services and tools for IoT fleet management. Based in Tuscany, he blends academic rigor with startup-style product launches to push embedded automation toward practical, scalable AI deployments.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Telematics and Information Society Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni, PhD in Telematics and Information Society Ingegneria delle telecomunicazioni at Università degli Studi di Firenze
Masters Degree in Mathematics specialization in Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science, Masters Degree in Mathematics specialization in Computer Science Mathematics and Computer Science at Università di Siena
English, Italian, French