Alessandro Araldi

Alessandro is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Bologna, Italy, holding a BS and MS in electrical engineering. Alessandro also holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Alessandro is responsible for leading the corporate strategy and marketing functions for the Americas region of the Honeywell Security Group (HSG), a multi-billion-dollar business unit of Honeywell International and global leader in electronic physical security and connected home and building solutions. 

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Alessandro was previously a partner at CSK Venture Capital, one of the oldest and most successful Japanese VC firms, managing $250M in committed capital and investing in early stage IT and Biotech companies globally. 

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Prior to CSK-VC Alessandro was with Texas Instruments where he led the product management of the OMAP' microprocessor platform, growing it from pre-revenues to about $1B in sales to make it the leading mobile microprocessor platform and the fastest growing business at TI. Earlier, he was with the Boston Consulting Group where he was one of the early members of the high-tech and telecom practice. 

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At the beginning of his career Alessandro worked at Telecom Italia Lab, the research center of Telecom Italia, where he developed next generation telecom networks and services.

A member of Class 12, Alessandro was mentored by Makoto Kaneshiro at CSK Venture Capital.