Mattia Fogliacco is president of Sisvel International SA, the parent company of the Sisvel Group. He has led the group since 2017 and before that was part of its executive management team as chief new business officer. Under his leadership, Sisvel has become a point of reference for licensing SEPs in consumer electronics for Wi-Fi, mobile communication and digital video broadcasting technologies.

Mr Fogliacco championed the formation of principled licensing programmes defending the interests of innovators around proprietary technologies such as VP9 and AV1. Keenly focused on creating transactional efficiencies in the markets for technologies, he steered Sisvel to aggregate patents, both by creating patent pools and by acquiring patent portfolios that later contributed to such pools.

Before joining Sisvel, Mr Fogliacco was managing director of Innovation SA, a company focused on licensing and IP transactions. He also served as senior international manager at IP Bewertungs AG, a service provider of Deutsche Bank, managing three IP and innovation investment funds.

Mr Fogliacco holds an MSc from Bocconi University and a CEMS master’s in international management. He is an inventor with several patent applications under his name and has published multiple articles on innovation and licensing.

Founded in 1982, Sisvel is Europe’s largest licensing administrator and the only one globally that has been in operation for more than 40 years. It is a world leader in fostering innovation and managing IP. The form is driven by a relentless commitment to developing forms of intermediation in IP transactions that reduce complexity and remove friction between willing licensees and licensors.