Alessandro Petrich is a Rome-based operator and investor with a decade of experience spanning venture capital, corporate finance, and hands-on startup leadership across Italy's deep tech ecosystem. Currently serving as CFO at Northern Light Composites (NLComp), he is helping scale an Italian startup tackling one of materials science's most pressing challenges — the end-of-life recyclability of fiberglass and composite materials.

Before NLComp, Alessandro led New Business Strategy and Development at Tate, an energy transition startup, and served as Investment Manager at Eneatech, a €500M+ tech transfer fund focused on Healthcare and Life Sciences. His earlier career took him through some of Italy's most respected early-stage institutions — Italian Angels for Growth, P101 Ventures, LVenture Group, and PwC — giving him a rare combination of investor-side pattern recognition and founder-side execution experience.

Alessandro brings a cross-sector perspective that connects frontier technology with commercial growth, having worked across composites, energy, healthcare, and open innovation. A well-travelled connector with presence across the European startup scene, he is actively engaged with founders, co-investors, and partners pushing the boundaries of deep tech in Southern Europe and beyond.