Davide Rossi
Davide Rossi is a Co-Founder and CEO of FitBark, a data-driven pet technology company focused on getting pets and their owners safe and healthy together. FitBark builds collar sensors and software infrastructure that helps humans in 140+ countries to develop real-time, comparative knowledge of their pet’s location, activity, quality of sleep, calorie balance, anxiety, skin conditions and overall health and behavior. FitBark is also a research-grade platform adopted by 100+ vet schools and research institutions to conduct research on new drugs, products and treatments related to mobility, anxious behaviors and skin conditions.
In a previous life, Davide designed Ferrari engines, co-founded BRM Model Cars, and managed Oil & Gas projects in Asia and the Middle East. More recently, he served as an investment banker with Deutsche Bank in New York, where he advised FinTech clients on capital raises and matters related to mergers and acquisitions.
Davide holds a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy) and a Master in Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Talk to me about… my research
My research focuses on ‘what is health, how can health be quantified and how to measure effects from nutrition and lifestyle on health’. I joined TNO in 2006 and works with a bioinformatics research group active in the field of nutrigenomics and systems biology. I am acting as principal investigator in several public private partnerships focusing on systems health applying genomics technology, bioinformatics, standardised infrastructures and artificial intelligence. In the last 5 years most of my research focuses on personalized nutrition. This included the coordination of the evidence-based scientific advice system that has been implemented by the American personalised nutrition start-up company ‘Habit’ (https://habit.com/). In 2016 Iwas awarded the ‘Excellent researcher of 2015’ for her work on personalised nutrition. I have a PhD in medical sciences from Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center.
Talk to me about…something people may not know about me
I have my own personal story around personalised nutrition… and furthermore that I’d like to play volleyball, to do bootcamp and I’d like to travel (preferably adventurous long walking trails in the middle of nowhere)
