Marco Lombardo

Set Group-wide technology direction across enterprise applications, digital products, software platforms, data & AI, infrastructure, cybersecurity and operational technology as an Executive Management Team member. Aligned architecture and investment priorities across the group connecting product platforms with manufacturing, supply chain and commercial needs.

Assumed back Group IT accountability following a major cyberattack; directed recovery and strengthened cybersecurity governance, infrastructure resilience and technology risk management. Modernized Kippy onto a true-cloud platform, introducing Chargebee and credit-card payments to support 50,000 subscriptions.

Directed multidisciplinary R&D across hardware, firmware, software and data science to deliver connected products from device sensing through cloud and mobile experiences. Brought the Datamars Livestock Smart Farming ecosystem from concept to launch, using animal movement data and cloud-based neural networks to improve herd decisions and artificial insemination results for dairy operations.

Founded Datamars' first in-house software engineering team in 2015, establishing software development capabilities from the ground up and laying the foundation for proprietary cloud platforms, digital products and global business-process automation. Architected Datamars Ordering System as a cloud-based Order Orchestration platform, improving end-to-end order lead times across order capture, interc

Engineered embedded software and firmware for livestock and pet-identification RFID readers, from low-level device control to production release.

R&D engineering for automotive remote-control systems and base stations: firmware and application software design on Atmel platforms, with CAN bus communication and the Vector toolchain.

R&D software design and development of IP lawful-interception systems — mission-critical platforms for real-time capture and analysis of network and voice communications.

Embedded firmware/software development for GPS chipsets across ARM, Windows CE and Linux platforms. Led global application engineering and customer integration across Europe, USA and Asia.

Project Leader for embedded avionics R&D on the Eurofighter Typhoon program. Software development and international system integration in a safety-critical environment.

Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, completed in 2003.