Massimo Ippolito, a mechatronics expert, is the author of the Kite Gen concept.

Since 1983, following a progressively focused interest into environmental and energy problems, is working with his own research company, Sequoia Automation, on several projects related to sustainability and efficiency, in particular through the usage of proprietary miniaturized high performance smart sensors.

Inventor of almost twenty patents and co-author of 3 papers on control of power kites.

Mario Milanese, an ordinary professor of Systems and Control Theory at the Politecnico of Turin, Italy. From 1982 to 1987 Director of the newborn Department of Automation and Information Technology. In 2004 founded Modelway, an academic spin-off at the Incubator for Innovative Enterprises of the Politecnico of Turin. Has been visiting professor at the Massachusset Institute of Technology, University of California Berkeley, Princeton University, Tokyo University, Warsaw University, Columbia University.

Author of more than 200 works on papers and international congresses focused on modelization, simulation, prediction and control of complex systems and their application to biomedical, automotive, aerospatial, economic, environmental and energy problems. Co-author of two books “Robustness in Identification and Control”, Plenum Press, New York, 1989; “Bounding Approaches to System Identification”, Plenum Press, New York, 1996.

Honoured with the International Huspy Awards for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, 1984 and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship, 1999. Inventor of four patents related to automotive and control of power kites.

Holds a 1967 degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin.

Franco Taddei, a mechanical engineering expert, since 1984 main shareholder and CEO of CeSI, a niche engineering company specialized in design and analysis of high performance large machines.

Since 1993 teacher of Industrial Technologies at the LIUC University of Castellanza (VA), Italy.

Holds a 1971 degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico of Milan.