Federica Destro
Federica Destro graduated in Business administration cum laude at the University of Padua and obtained a PhD in Technology Transfer in 2012, spending one year as Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Before joining the Open Accelerator team as Program and Community Specialist, she worked as project manager in Fondazione Filarete for 4 years (now Fondazione UNIMI), an incubator focused on biotech and life sciences startups. As project manager for a main Microsoft and Fondazione Cariplo's project, she coordinated the activities of 9 accelerators and incubators and supported business development activities. Unconventional, independent and original, Federica likes to scout new projects, to help startups starting and to connect them with the right contacts.