Marco Peluso founded Qardio with the determination to improve heartcentered healthcare by developing a line of revolutionary, personal monitoring devices.

Prior to founding Qardio, Marco’s career spanned fourteen years in London’s financial industry. After graduating summa cum laude from Bocconi University with a degree in Business Administration, he took position as a technology, media and telecom investment banker for JPMorgan, where he advised some of the bank’s largest clients on several very large transactions. By age 28, Marco became partner at a multi-billion dollar hedge fund, where he shared responsibility for managing the investment portfolio.

Marco left the finance industry to start Qardio after his father suffered a stroke that’s origin was difficult to determine due to a lack of the very type of continuous monitoring devices Qardio has created.

Rosario Iannella’s fourteen-year career span of designing and implementing highly complex IT platforms includes time working for Sun Microsystems and for Oracle as a Principal Solution Architect. Prior to co-founding Qardio, Rosario was COO and CTO of a telecom services startup for two years, during which time he radically restructured the company’s operations, taking it from $20mm to $120mm in revenues. During this restructuring he redesigned operations for scalability, rebuilt all operational platforms, and managed the manufacturing of custom hardware.

Rosario has worked on projects across four continents, and his international project experience includes designing the architecture of execution-critical systems for several globally recognizable clients. Rosario holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Naples, Italy.