Riccardo Donadon was born in Treviso and, after graduating from high school, embarked on a psychology degree course. In 1990 he started working with his father but his great passion was the internet, so halfway through 1995 he accepted the challenge to create a work crew whose purpose was to tell the world the story of the Benetton sports teams via the internet. A few months later the first Italian virtual mall Mall Italy Lab (http://www.mall.it) was set up. In 1999 it was signed over to Infostrada and is still present in the commercial area of the Italian portal Libero.it

September 1998 marked a turning point: Riccardo Donadon left Verde Sport together with the 8 people who had accompanied him along the Mall adventure and founded E-TREE (www.e-tree.com). From this moment on, it is all about e-nergy, enthusiasm and pure e-speed

With Riccardo Donadon, in just a few months E-TREE became a reference point throughout Italy for its way of working, its informal outlook, its rapid growth, its business method and the undoubted skill in the solutions created. In 2001, when the company reached a 26-billion lire turnover and employed 160 people, it was sold in its entirety to the Etnoteam group.

In September 2003 Donadon left E-TREE and spent almost a year looking after his garden, relaxing and pondering new ideas and new initiatives.

In January 2005 Donadon founded H-FARM, the first private Italian incubator, with the aim of transforming innovative ideas into successful startups. H-Farm was born in the countryside of Ca' Tron, near Treviso, and in May 2008 the second epicentre in Seattle, WA, USA was established. H-farm already boasts an operational office in Mumbai, India, which will soon become the third epicentre for business.

Maurizio Rossi was born in Italy in '64 and belongs to the "bad boy" generation. He is connected to creative culture and inspired by design because it shapes new things as well as people's minds. He likes to observe and understand people's lifestyles and their local traditions.

In his previous-century experiences, Maurizio worked for a family-run company called Rossimoda, market leader of luxury women's footwear, at present part of the LVMH fashion holding, where his main commitment was new product-line spin-offs and market expansion. In 1990, within his family group, Maurizio launched Vista Point, a business unit dedicated to internationally expanding leading US action-sports brands such as NoFear, Spy Optics and DC. He has been involved in both retail and wholesale distribution networks and believes that the 21st century will bring the big shift; the internet, new information technologies together with clean energies and environmental issues will be the driving forces of this great opportunity and Maurizio Rossi has joined and invested in H-Farm to make his contribution to innovating models and to support the shift that is coming.

Franco Roman, graduates in Electronic Engineering with a thesis on technology for digital music at the University of Padua. He continues conducting research at the University until joining Data General, a company operating in Information Technology. While in Data General, he covers various technical and commercial positions until his appointment as Director of Indirect Sales, from where he spearheads the building of an extensive national network of dealers for the SMB market. In 1988 he becomes part of the startup team of Sun Microsystems during its very early days of in Italy. He takes the position of Indirect Sales Manager and the task of organizing the Italian market's burgeoning sales network. Later on, as a member of the management team, he follows the growth of the multinational company, with different at the international level responsibilities, including Internet Marketing Manager Europe, Marketing Director for Southern Europe, Director of Partner Sales. He leads the launch of Java and the creation of Java Developers Community, also through the organization of large events like the Italian Java Conference. In 2008 he is part of the international team responsible for the launch of Sun's Cloud Computing. He is a member of the board of directors of Sun Microsystems Italy Spa from 2000 to 2009.

Franco Roman joins H-Farm as a partner in September 2009. He brings his experience to support internationalization, alliance- and partnership-building as well as to advise and mentor startups at the Farm.

Vladimiro Mazzotti was born in 1969 in Cesena, Educated to think globally, everything about is future became crystal clear in 1984 when he bought his first Macintosh. Fueled by an insane passion for technology and innovation, in the mid 90s he started scouting new hi-tech products all over the world, building a strong network of relations and helping several companies penetrating the Italian market. In 2000 he cofounded E-Motion, with the idea of innovating the consumer electronics distribution business. E-Motion rapidly became the reference partner for foreign companies to succeed in Italian retail market and contributed in the successful launch of several iconic brands (Palm,Handspring,TomTom,Apple,HTC among them). Father of two, in November 2008 he decided to step down from his role as CEO of E-Motion and dedicate full time to his kids and wife. He couldn't resist to his friend Riccardo's challenge and in 2010 he joined and invested in H-Farm to bring additional enthusiasm and competence and to fully back up the journey.

Rishikesh Shintre is a Chartered Accountant, Cost Accountant and a Company Secretary qualified from the respective institutes in India. He was a Gold Medallist in the final examination of the Chartered Accountancy course.

He is a very sincere and dynamic professional with experience of 10 years post qualification.

Rishikesh started his career as a consultant with Ernt & Young Corporate Finance in India. After working with E&Y for nearly 5 years, he co-founded a boutique Corporate Finance and Business Consultancy Company “Mindspring Advisors’ in 2004 at the young age of 28. About two years ago, Mindspring entered into a joint venture with an Italian advisory group and launched Agre, a specialized Indo-Italian consulting firm.

He has advised a number of corporates on M&A transactions (domestic and cross-border), private equity deals, corporate restructuring, debt restructuring, debt financing and feasibility studies. A few recent examples of strategic equity transactions include the amalgamation of Datar Switchgear with Larsen & Toubro, private equity transaction for the ‘Meru’ taxi service and divestment of a leading printing materials business to Saati SpA of Italy. A few examples of debt transactions include the debt raising for ‘Meru’ taxi service and Vanity Case Group of companies. He has also advised clients on new alliances, examples being Fami-Godrej and H-Farm-Times of India Group.

Rishikesh is an independent Director on the Boards of mid-sized companies and advises them on their business strategy in India, internal systems development, etc.

As a philosophy, he believes in not only working with clients as an advisor, but truly integrating with the client’s organizations and indeed becoming part of them as an integral member of their Management.

Max Ciccotosto was born in Italy, but he soon moved to USA for his studies. He is the founder of Wishpot is third startup. Before Wishpot Max founded two companies in Italy; one focused on consumer events and another a technology service provider. An experienced manager of both people and businesses, Max spent seven years at Microsoft before returning to his entrepreneurial roots. In the past three years he worked in mobility where he was granted for four patents and actively engaged in licensing deals with Nokia, SEMC, Palm and Motorola. Max holds a MS in Electrical Engineering from UW.

Riccardo Donadon was born in Treviso and, after graduating from high school, embarked on a psychology degree course. In 1990 he started working with his father but his great passion was the internet, so halfway through 1995 he accepted the challenge to create a work crew whose purpose was to tell the world the story of the Benetton sports teams via the internet. A few months later the first Italian virtual mall Mall Italy Lab (http://www.mall.it) was set up. In 1999 it was signed over to Infostrada and is still present in the commercial area of the Italian portal Libero.it

September 1998 marked a turning point: Riccardo Donadon left Verde Sport together with the 8 people who had accompanied him along the Mall adventure and founded E-TREE (www.e-tree.com). From this moment on, it is all about e-nergy, enthusiasm and pure e-speed

With Riccardo Donadon, in just a few months E-TREE became a reference point throughout Italy for its way of working, its informal outlook, its rapid growth, its business method and the undoubted skill in the solutions created. In 2001, when the company reached a 26-billion lire turnover and employed 160 people, it was sold in its entirety to the Etnoteam group.

In September 2003 Donadon left E-TREE and spent almost a year looking after his garden, relaxing and pondering new ideas and new initiatives.

In January 2005 Donadon founded H-FARM, the first private Italian incubator, with the aim of transforming innovative ideas into successful startups. H-Farm was born in the countryside of Ca' Tron, near Treviso, and in May 2008 the second epicentre in Seattle, WA, USA was established. H-farm already boasts an operational office in Mumbai, India, which will soon become the third epicentre for business.

Maurizio Rossi was born in Italy in '64 and belongs to the "bad boy" generation. He is connected to creative culture and inspired by design because it shapes new things as well as people's minds. He likes to observe and understand people's lifestyles and their local traditions.

In his previous-century experiences, Maurizio worked for a family-run company called Rossimoda, market leader of luxury women's footwear, at present part of the LVMH fashion holding, where his main commitment was new product-line spin-offs and market expansion. In 1990, within his family group, Maurizio launched Vista Point, a business unit dedicated to internationally expanding leading US action-sports brands such as NoFear, Spy Optics and DC. He has been involved in both retail and wholesale distribution networks and believes that the 21st century will bring the big shift; the internet, new information technologies together with clean energies and environmental issues will be the driving forces of this great opportunity and Maurizio Rossi has joined and invested in H-Farm to make his contribution to innovating models and to support the shift that is coming.

Moshè Bar, an Israeli and US citizen, he has created several successful software companies in the past, which were sold for over 700 million US$. Furthermore, he is a frequent Angel investor in high-tech start up companies, and acts as a board member often. He was also a Venture Partner at T Venture. The author of several books, he was also a senior editor at Byte Magazine for over six years. Additionally, he lectured computer science at Tel Aviv University in the early 2000s.

Before entering the high-tech business, he was a career officer in the Israel Defense Forces. Currently residing in the USA, Moshe is involved in several philanthropy projects in Israel and Europe.

Thomas Panto was born in Treviso1975, Thomas is President of TVision, the company that hold 3 TV in Nordest of Italy. Moreover he is the CEO of PANTO Spa, the family company leader in window frames He is the Founder and President of the Onlus Foundation Giorgio Panto, a no-profit organization wicht operates in the Veneto Area to support the weaker population. He is the President of Light Farm, an initiative focused on Presidente di Light Farm srl, an initiative that aims to make the Foundation Giorgio Panto self-sufficient economically, by the realization of a big technology park for renovable energies. This project is developed together with Telecom Italia that is producing an important cash flow and aspires to be the place of reference in the territory for meetings and training activities.

Patrizio Bof born in Treviso 42 years ago, married with two children. From the school time he has been passionate from emergent technologies and how technologies could support the business evolution. He used his resources to propose the more appropriate solution during the technology evolution, improving offers to the continuous Business Management needs.

Patrizio Bof operates on the IT industry from eighteen years, he dedicated special attention to support organisations to manage their relations with customers. This special attention to "manage the customer" affirmed Patrizio Bof to be the Italian precursor on the CRM. Eighteen years ago Patrizio Bof founded his company (PAT Srl) after few years PAT become the Italian reference on the CRM solutions, in few years he expanded the company's subsidiaries and customers in many European countries. His just established company developed not only a CRM but also a Help Desk Software able to support organisations on the growing need to manage their customers. It was the period when organisation become more customer-centric, and the Patrizio Bof's vision to offer CRM solution has been winning, and place PAT as the CRM software solution reference in Italy and abroad.

Patrizio Bof dedicate high attention not only to produce internal solution but also looking for the best opportunity of partnership, dealing with important softwarehouse relevant partnerships in order to propose a complete and complementary overall solution to his customer. Alliances, partnerships, new products development, complete the wide vision promote from Patrizio Bof, oriented to support organisation to manage their customer using many technologies and modeules: mobile, Web, Call Center, Business Intelligence, Geomarketing support, Sales force automation.

Customers' offer has been always drove from the market standard, to whom Patrizio Bof dedicate particular attention in order to supply solutions "standards compliance". Patrizio Bof offer his professional competence to promote standards diffusion, become part of important associations with the scope to diffuse standards or recommendations, as ITIL for example.

During the 2009, Patrizio Bof become the majority shareholders not only in H-CARE but also in Soluta.Net. Patrizio Bof established a Group of company able to sustain each organisations' request relative to the customer management. H-CARE introduce an important innovation on the customer management, the extensive use of a Digital Assistant, in form of intelligence Human representation, as direct interface for the final user, interacting via voice and image throughout web, mobile, kiosk, and any interactive device. Soluta.Net has been wanted in the Group from Patrizio Bof for the extensive use of Software Engineering consultant activities, that in the future will influence the way companies could produce software and integrate Customer Management with Enterprise Architecture.

Once again Patrizio Bof had undertake an innovative union in his Group with the final objective to support organisation to adapt at the market changes, on it he maintained his passion and his commitment unchanged from his first steeps on the Information Technology world.