Guido Meardi '24 Contributor Since 2024

Co-founder and CEO of V-Nova, a tech company dedicated to improving data compression and AI processing. Its technologies, backed by over 1,200 patents, have been granted international standard status by MPEG, ISO and SMPTE. Technology innovator, entrepreneur and investor, Meardi contributed to the foundational development work for V-Nova’s core technology and most of its latest developments as an inventor of 500+ active patents. A former senior Partner at McKinsey, Meardi was head of the Organization and Operations Practices of the Mediterranean Complex, where he led transformational projects across the globe and was instrumental in setting up some of McKinsey’s own innovation-related business-building activities. Guido holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, where he was a Siebel Scholar, and an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, where he was an Intel scholar, and the University of Texas at Austin. He can be reached at guido,meardi@v-nova.com.