Umberto Bondi received his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano and subsequently (after a previous industrial work experience as Product Manager) an Executive Master in Information Technology (Electronic Design Automation Area) from CEFRIEL (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) in 1999. Since 2000 he is the Program Manager of the ALaRI institute. He has authored or co-authored a number of papers and a patent in embedded systems field. Since March 2004 he belongs to the managing staff of the University Incubator (www.cpstartup.ch ) and since 2007 he is Technology Transfer consultant for the Università della Svizzera italiana (www.ticinotransfer.ch). He actively participated to a number of national and international projects, also as project or work-package co-ordinator.