Biography
From Piacenza, born in ’73, with a lifelong passion for technology.
A lifehacker from birth, he always has to figure out how things work, and is fascinated more than anything else by understanding how the things around him work, taking them apart down to their individual components (and usually managing to put them back together again) to understand their deepest mechanisms and sometimes even to modify them, for the better.
After graduating in Telecommunications Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan, he paid his dues around Europe working on the commissioning of industrial automation systems. From there came the idea (prompted by a personal need) to create a telemetry system to manage plants scattered across the globe. Rilheva was born in Piacenza, the first Industrial Internet of Things platform. That was in 2004.
In 2018, thanks to an Emilia-Romagna regional grant, he moved to Silicon Valley for six months to devise the company's development strategy. He returned to Piacenza and decided to implement “the plan”, first of all keeping his base in his home city, but with his eyes on the rest of the world, in order to maintain an international outlook and develop agreements with foreign partners.
