ITALIA TOUR

ENZOTORRESI OF CATANIA

Enzo Torresi, born in Catania in 1945, graduated in electrical engineering from the Turin Polytechnic died in June 2016 for disease in 71 years.

Career that began in Ivrea, Olivetti 1969-1970 Olivetti Technological Research laboratories researcher.
1970-1972 Olivetti in Englewwod Cliffs, NJ research on display and print "no impact" gets two patents u.s. Patent office 1971, on the LCD.
1976 appointed Olivetti Executive. Olivetti Cupertino, California: founder of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) which develops LSI chips, electronic typewriter ET, and the first Personal Olivetti M20.
From 1979 to 1982 President of ATC Cupertino. The ATC in 1982 counts 170 researchers and practitioners of information technology. Founder, Vice Chairman of Businessland Inc. the largest chain of distribution of Personal Computers over the years 80. The company is fully funded by local Venture Capital.
Appointed Key executive of industry for three consecutive years. Businessland was listed on the NYSE in December 1983. Businessland becomes Entex Systems in 1992-1989 -1994 founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NetFRAME Systems Inc. manufacturer of high-performance network Computer Servers.
This company is funded by Venture Capital and was named in the list of Olivetti 30 fastest growing high-tech company in the U.S. by Fortune Magazine in July 1994.

Netframe was listed on the NASDAQ Stock Exchange in June 1992. In 1997 NetFRAME becomes a subsidiary of Micron Electronics. 1997 co-founder, Chairman of Power Computing, the first manufacturer of Personal Apple compatible.
The company is funded with Olivetti capital and Venture Capital from California. Power Computing was bought by Apple Computer in 1997. 1995-1997 Entrepreneur in Residence and Venture Partner at Accel Partners, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. 1997-1998 Chairman, co-founder and CEO of Icast Corporation, a software company that allows video and audio live on the Internet. The Icast is fully funded with capital Accel Partners. In August 1998 the Icast was bought by FVC.COM, a company in Video for Internet and the name switch to CMGI.
Enzo Torresi is also on the boards of the following companies listed on NASDAQ: PictureTel Corporation is a world leader in Video Conference. Optibase Ltd. leading Israeli society Video Networking.
Network Associates company leaders in network security & antivirus. Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) Unix and Linux market leader companies.
Enzo Torresi is a founding partner of "Band of Angels" from Palo Alto, a California-based Venture Capital Association.
In 1999 he founded Enzo Torresi Eurofound Partners, a Venture Capital Fund that operates in Silicon Valley: and is Chairman of a company named Kerbango Internet Radio startups. Eurofound has invested not only in Kerbango, Network24 (now part of Akamai), Teknema (now Ravisent), Garage.com, ZNYX Synaxia Networks, each company and Apptitude, based in California.
Enzo Torresi is on the Board of Advisors and Venture Partner of European start-up incubator MyQube promoted by Pirelli