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Oberto Citterio

Chief Science Officer

Oberto Citterio joined Media Lario in 2009. From 1986 to 2009 he was Leader of the X-Ray Optics Group at INAF-OAB. From 2007 to 2009 he was involved in the development of the Simbol-X and e-Rosita optics. Chairman of the 2003 SPIE conference on Astronomical UV/X-ray/gamma-ray optics. He developed x-ray optics based on glass for the space missions. He was the P.I. of the X-ray optics of JET-X on board Spectrum X and XRT on board the NASA SWIFT missions. Up to 2008 he was Member of the Constellation-X FST. Winner of the Bruno Rossi Prize 2007 in the context of the Swift Team and winner of the Bruno Rossi Prize 1998 in the context of the Beppo SAX Team. Member of the XMM telescope working group. He studied and developed innovative x-ray optics for Wide field x-ray telescope and light, large high accuracy x-ray optics. He developed high energy x-ray optics with multilayer coating. He studied and developed application of SiC to space optics. PI of the Beppo SAX X-ray Optic and project manager of the space experiment S88 on board the ESA satellite TD1. He developed the two telescopes interferometry in the infrared and the active 1m mirror demonstrator at ESO. Project manager for the TIRGO project (1.5 m Infrared telescope at the Gornergrad Observatory). He is author of more than 120 publications.

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Giovanni Bianucci

VP Sales & Marketing

Giovanni joined Media Lario in 2005 to work in program and project management for the company’s technology developments for the semiconductor industry.

His success earned him a senior role in overall technical marketing and then ultimately to be the VP of Sales and Markleting. Previously, Giovanni worked in photomasks and wafer lithography process engineering in STMicroelectronics and DNP Photomask Europe from 1994 until 2005. This included an assignment at International Sematech in Austin, Texas between for several years as project manager for the development of an advanced electron-beam photomask writer.

Giovanni earned a BSc (5-year equivalent) in Electronic Engineering in 1993 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has several papers published

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Jeff Lyons

Chief Executive Officer

Jeff joined Media Lario in 2015. Over his career, he has focused primarily on technology commercialization and management in technology related businesses.
Jeff’s career began in aerospace working with a group of scientists from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA to develop a high performance optical system which flew aboard the Space Shuttle.
Since then, Jeff worked in marketing and sales in the semiconductor industry where he held a number of marketing and senior management roles managing business relations with some of the largest semiconductor buyers in the world.
During this time, Jeff spent nearly seven years in Asia. He has also worked and lived in Silicon Valley where he was born, and has now lived in Europe for nearly two decades.
Jeff earned his BSc degree in Electrical Engineering at the California State University in Fullerton and an MSc in Management from the London Business School as a Sloan Fellow. Jeff has volunteered as a mentor to aspiring entrepreneurs at London Business School since graduating in 2000.

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Giuseppe Valsecchi

Chief Technical Officer

Giuseppe joined Media Lario in 1993 at its foundation. Holding the role of Chief Technology Officer, he is the reference technical resource for electroforming and other advanced optical component manufacturing techniques. Giuseppe has extensive experience in the aerospace optics industry.
During his career he has held engineering and project management positions in the development of X-ray space telescopes (Beppo SAX, Jet-X, XMM, eROSITA), and Nickel and glass reflectors for millimeter and Cherenkov ground-based observatories (IRAM, ALMA, LMT, MAGIC, CTA). He was also responsible for the design, manufacturing, and test of the ROSETTA “Composed Parabolic Concentrators of Grain Impact Analyzer Dust Accumulator” for the European Space Agency (ESA).
Before joining Media Lario, he worked for Macdit Italiana, as process engineer for electroforming. Giuseppe earned a BSc (5-year equivalent) in Chemical Engineering in 1988 from Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He has more than 20 technical publications.

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Fabio Zocchi

VP of Engineering

Fabio joined Media Lario in 2000. His department is responsible for the design and metrology of the optical systems business as well as for engineering support of the complex optical components business. Previously, he held positions at ST-Microelectronics and Whirlpool Europe.

He has about 20 patents and patents applications and has published about 50 papers and conference proceedings. Fabio has earned three MSc degrees including Electronic Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics.

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José Achache

Chairman of the Board

José Achache is founder and CEO of ALTYN, a Space and Security company based in Geneva, and Managing Director of AP-Swiss, the platform for Business Applications of ESA, in Switzerland. Besides Media Lario, José is Director or Advisor of several space companies in Switzerland, Italy and France. Deputy Director General of CNES, the French space agency, and Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA, the European Space Agency. With extensive knowledge of Space programmes and the Space industry, he has a unique track record of initiating satellite programmes, from very small satellites like OERSTED, to Rovers and Balloons on Mars, to small constellations like SWARM, up to the multi-billion COPERNICUS programme of the European Union for Environment and Security. He was the architect of the Sentinel series of satellites of COPERNICUS, the Earth observation programme of the EU, and the early advocate of its “free and open” data policy. A graduate of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris, he holds a PhD in Geophysics, a PhD in Physical Sciences and was Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford. Author of Les Sentinelles de la Terre, an essay on space applications for the environment and security and has published numerous scientific papers as well as editorial, interviews and conferences for wider audiences on space, environment and security.

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Tonio Barlage

Director

Tonio is a Managing Director of Bryan, Garnier & Co., who previously worked as President, COO & CFO, at Sauer Inc. (NYSE: SHS). Beforehand he was Manager in the audit division of Arthur Andersen LLP, then one of the Big Five accounting firms. He is the Managing Partner of PolyTechnos Partners & Team, focusing on ICT investments. His deals at PolyTechnos include Innolume, Mirrospace, Nanotron, Peers Solution and Wtec. Tonio holds a PhD in Banking and a degree in Business Administration & Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. He was also accredited in Germany as CPA and as tax advisor.

Our company

Company Overview

our mission

To serve our customers with solutions to their optics requirements by exceeding their expectations, being attentive to their needs at all times and always doing the best work we possibly can.

Media Lario S.r.l. was founded in 1993 for the purpose of building the first of its kind all metal optics - grown in a chemical bath - for the XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope of the European Space Agency (ESA). The XMM-Newton was launched in December 1999 and continues operating to this day at a distance of 40,000 kilometres from the Earth. Our mirrors continue to function at full specification, with recent imaging achieving the discovery of the last 5% of unidentified Baryonic Matter in the Universe.  

Since then, our technology has been used in numerous X-ray space telescope missions, being chosen recently for the €1.5 billion ATHENA telescope, due to launch in the early 2030’s. Recently, we were also very proud to have supplied the optics which were used to take the first ever image of a black hole as part of a 50m large scale telescope in Mexico as well as a large scale telescope array in Atacama Chile. Additionally, our technology has pioneered the use of new materials for high specification optics and optical systems in satellites for Earth Observation as well as for Free Space Optical Communications.

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About

Over the past three decades, Media Lario has earned the trust of numerous world leading space agencies, including ESA, NASA, ASI (Italy), and CAS (China) as well as leading aerospace companies including Airbus, Leonardo, and Thales Alenia Space.

Being located in northern Italy, we benefit from deep developments in metallurgical technologies as well as optics design. The concept of X-ray space telescopes was born in Italy, tracing its roots to the optical research of Galileo hundreds of years ago and to the metallurgical technologies developed in this area since the Roman times.

Looking forward, we believe that new technologies in optical design and manufacturing will be increasingly important, even mission defining, for New Space (Space 2.0) missions.  Media Lario intends to remain at the forefront by continuing to invest heavily in R&D in our areas of specialty.

Quality policy

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Our policy is to exceed the Customer expectations and to guarantee full satisfaction of the Company’s Customers, Shareholders and Personnel through:

  • Continuous improvement of the products, processes and services
  • Human and professional growth of personnel
  • Achievement of the defined targets
  • Effective and clear communication
  • Respecting both environment and workplace safety

Our Quality System is built with the participation of our Customers and Suppliers and it is focused on the improvement of the Company’s processes, on the respect of laws and regulations, and on the education, training and quality awareness of our collaborators. We are convinced that:

  • Every activity can be improved
  • Each person can be supported and trained
  • Each target should be clear and achievable
  • Each assessment should be impartial and measurable

Everyone in the Company is responsible for the implementation of this Policy, each for her or his role, starting from the CEO who has this responsibility at the highest level.

This Quality Policy is provided and explained to all employees in order to implement and maintain it at all levels in the organization. It is also part of new-hires’ training in the Quality Management System. This Policy is clearly posted throughout the Company to maintain high standards within our organization and periodically reviewed by the management in order to verify its fit to the evolving organization.

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Management Team

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Jeff Lyons

Chief Executive Officer

Giovanni Bianucci

VP Sales & Marketing

Oberto Citterio

Chief Science Officer

Giuseppe Valsecchi

Chief Technical Officer

Fabio Zocchi

VP of Engineering

Board of Directors

José Achache

Chairman of the Board

Tonio Barlage

Director

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Jeff Lyons

Chief Executive Officer

Giuseppe Valsecchi

Chief Technical Officer

Working with leading Space Agencies

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Media Lario S.r.l.
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Phone: +39 031 867 111
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