V-Nova brings together technical depth, operational experience and long-term thinking. Our leadership team guides the company across research, standards, product development and global deployment, bringing innovation into real-world use.
Directors
The Board of Directors provides oversight, governance and strategic guidance. Its members bring experience across technology, media, finance and global markets, supporting V-Nova’s long-term growth and institutional strength.
Guido Meardi
CEO and Co-founder
Co-founder and CEO of V-Nova, a tech company dedicated to improving data, video, imaging, and point-cloud compression. Its technologies have been granted international standard status by MPEG, ISO and SMPTE. Guido contributed to the foundational development work for V-Nova’s core technology and most of its latest developments as an inventor of its 400+ active patents.
A former Partner at McKinsey, Guido was head of the Organization and Operations Practices of the Mediterranean Complex, where he led transformational projects across the globe and was instrumental in setting up some of McKinsey’s own innovation-related business-building activities.
Guido holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he was a Siebel Scholar, and an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he was an Intel scholar, and the University of Texas at Austin.
Pierdavide Marcolongo
COO and Co-founder
London based investment banker promoted through a series of sales roles at Deutsche Bank and RBS before joining Goldman Sachs in 2010.
He specialised in developing structured derivatives for corporate clients and financial institutions. Overall, this gives him just under 20 years of experience structuring and selling B2B complex financial solutions to large firms.
Coming from an entrepreneurial family background, Pierdavide is an experienced entrepreneur with several previous business ventures and successful exits to his name.
One of the earliest financial backers of V-Nova, in 2015 Pierdavide resigned his Executive Directorship at Goldman Sachs to run V-Nova full time.
Pierdavide holds a Degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan.
David Benelloi
Chairman
Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company and former head of McKinsey’s UK TMT practice David brings three decades of strategic expertise to the board.
His time at McKinsey was characterised by blue-chip B2B consulting, growing company leaders and development into overseas markets.
Since leaving McKinsey David has served on the boards of several listed companies, including Telekom Malaysia, Telecom Italia and fintech company Tungsten Corporation.
He also has extensive experience with technology-based start-up companies, as a director, advisor and investor.
David holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MA in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.
Mary Meaney
Director
Former Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, she served on McKinsey’s Shareholders Council (global Board of Directors) and led the global Organization Practice. Mary co-authored “Leading Organizations: Ten Timeless Truths” and contributed to the McKinsey Global Institute report on “The Future of Work after Covid-19.” She holds board positions at Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), Syensqo, and Beamery, and serves on the Imperial College Council and the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School. Additionally, Mary is an Ambassador to the International Peter Drucker Forum and leads Solidarité Ukraine, a non-profit supporting Ukrainian women and children displaced by war.
She earned her D.Phil in Politics from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University.
Leadership team
The executive team leads the development, deployment and global growth of V-Nova’s technologies, spanning product, engineering, commercial and operational functions.
Investors
V-Nova’s shareholding comprises a diversified group of strategic partners in TV & Media and Telecommunication including the satellite operator Eutelsat, leading entertainment company Sky plc, financial investors such as Whysol Investment and London Stock Exchange-listed Limitless Earth and Venture Capital funds such as Neva SGR.
Mr Federico Faggin, and his foundation, were among V-Nova’s earlier investors and founding members. Federico Faggin, physicist, engineer, entrepreneur, designed the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. In 1974, he co-founded and was CEO of Zilog that developed the Zilog Z80 and Z8 processors. In 1986 he co-founded Synaptics, introducing the first touchpads and touchscreens that now dominate the market. In 2011, Faggin founded the Federico and Elvia Faggin Foundation.
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