Summary
Ugo Chirico is a serial founder and technology leader with 11+ years of experience who currently leads Cyberneid and Quantum2pi as CEO/CTO, blending cybernetics, electronic identity and post-quantum cryptography. He moves fluently between roles—architect, project manager, CTO and technical advisor—bringing deep hands-on expertise in smart cards, PKI, EMV, mobile security and AI-driven systems. His background includes founding JIProlog and long-term contributions to industrial eID and middleware projects such as Italy’s CIE, as well as creating cross-platform cryptographic libraries and mobile PKI solutions. Ugo combines academic training in physics and cybernetics with practical R&D, having applied semantic intelligence and machine learning in both research and product settings. He is notable for bridging low-level crypto and embedded systems (JavaCard, SIM-based PKI) with cloud and AI initiatives, including early work on SMS/VoIP encryption and biometric smart-card SSO. Based in Naples, he pairs entrepreneurial drive with a rare mix of legacy system mastery and forward-looking quantum and AI cybersecurity research.
12 years of coding experience