Braincontrol

BrainControl is a breakthrough technology that gives disabled people the ability to control objects with their minds.

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Healthcare Services
  • Location Siena, Province of Siena, Italy
  • Currency EUR
  • Founded June 2012
  • Employees 6
  • Website braincontrol.it

Company Summary

Imagine if you where prisoner of your body; imagine you wake up and you feel unable to turn on the light; imagine you cannot speak, to communicate your sentiments or needs to your dears; many people cannot do these things.
BrainControl is a breakthrough technology device that gives disabled people the power to control objects with their minds, allowing them to control a communicator, domotics devices, wheelchair.

Team

  • Myriam Gioia
    Speech therapist

    Myriam graduated as Speech Therapist at the University of Siena, now is attending a Master degree in Rehabilitation Science. Had a experimental Study on Marchiafava Bignami's Pathology and Training on the effect on Neglect using prismatic lens. She has worked with children with language, attention and cognitive disorder, but especially with adult post stroke and with degenerative disease.

  • Computer Science Engineer

    David received his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees cum laude in Computer Science at the University of Siena. For his thesis in 2006, he designed Speech Recognition Software that transcribes from dictation for people with disabilities. Afterwards, he gained eight years of experience as an IT Consultant in the fields of Virtual Payments, E-commerce and Bank Security furthering his knowledge by collaborating with IBM, Accenture, Engineering, GFT.

  • Computer Science Engineer

    Gianni graduated cum laude in Computer Science at University of Siena in 2006. In 2007 he started to work like software developer, IT and ETL consultant for some important banks and industries. To date he works at Liquidweb like software developer. His mission is to grow up his own capabilities in order to develop useful applications to improve our everyday life.

  • Bioinformatics

    Francesco received his degree cum laude in Chemical at the University of Siena and after the academic studies, he attended a master course in bioinformatics. After a few years as a researchers at the University of Siena he worked for important pharmaceutical and software engineering companies and the last year he joined the Braincontrol team.

  • CEO and Founder

    Pasquale Fedele received his MBA in December 2004 and a Master's Degree in Computer Science in July 2001, both from the University of Siena. He has held many professional roles in large and small companies, including co-founder, consultant, project manager, software designer and programmer, as well as being a research associate and lecturer on “Object-oriented design” and “Telematic networks management” at the University of Siena.

  • Business development

    Giulia ha conseguito la specializzazione in Accounting e Management presso l'Università di Siena dove ha anche conseguito la laurea triennale in Economia: Gestione d’impresa. Ha poi approfondito le sue conoscenze grazie ad alcune esperienze in aziende strutturate e multinazionali come Novartis Vaccines S.r.l. e Consorzio Operativo Gruppo MPS. Anche durante gli studi ha avuto un'esperienza nel settore commerciale.

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