Riccardo (Ric) Di Blasio is an executive in the hi-tech sector and AI/ML space. With several years spent between Silicon Valley, Boston and Europe, Di Blasio accrued more than 25+ years in the technology industry with key executive roles as Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing at VMware and EMC Corp. and currently Chief Revenue Officer at Commvault. He's also a Partner at Cortical Ventures, a Bay Area VC specialized in AI technologies. A proven early stage startups operator, advisor and investor in several Bay Area companies like Nebia, SySdig Cloud, Attimis, MemVerge, Mobile Iron, Fabrica.io to name few, and cooperates as board advisor with several venture funds. Since 2012, he's involved in a number of initiatives within the space industry, to foster break-through technology startups into space programs and provide access to funding, and he's one of the funding members of NASA iTech program.