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C2RO NEWS | C2RO Announces Riccardo Badalone as CEO

  • Writer: C2RO
    C2RO
  • Oct 12, 2017
  • 2 min read

MONTREAL, October 12, 2017 — C2RO Cloud Robotics, provider of an artificial intelligence SaaS platform, today announced the appointment of Riccardo Badalone as Chief Executive Officer. Badalone takes the reins from founder Soodeh Farokhi PhD., who will now focus more on advancing the company’s technology and product vision as Chief Technology Officer.



Badalone comes to C2RO with a successful track record in architecting and building early-stage companies in the enterprise cloud computing space. Most notably, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Diablo Technologies, which he grew to over one hundred employees worldwide and pioneered several Cloud and Virtualization technologies including Software Defined Memory and Memory Channel Storage. His background also includes senior leadership roles at Nortel Networks and Matrox Graphics.

“Riccardo has the proven experience and entrepreneurial spirit that I was looking for in a CEO and we are very proud that he is joining our team,” said Soodeh Farokhi. “His deep industry experience in Enterprise Cloud Computing is a great complement to the fantastic Cloud Robotics and AI foundation the C2RO team and I have built. The timing is right for him to help us build out the execution team that will allow us to take our platform to the broader market.”

Badalone and Farokhi will work together to build on C2RO’s early success with key partners and customers to extend the reach of the company’s technology platform within the hot Robotics market.

“I’m extremely excited and honored to work with Soodeh and the team to bring C2RO’s powerful Cloud Robotics platform to market and apply the technology to address the needs of existing and future customers,” said Badalone. “In the rapidly growing yet still nascent field of Enterprise Robotics, C2RO has succeeded in advancing the state-of-the-art in Cloud-based parallel processing platforms and machine learning for Robotics. I’m really looking forward to helping the company realize its amazing vision.”


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C2RO is the first robotics SaaS Platform that uses real-time data processing technologies to enable AI solutions for any robot in a fast, secure, and inexpensive manner. By utilizing cutting-edge robotic vision and sensing, the product augments the motion, perception, and collaboration capabilities of robots, even those with limited sensing and computation resources.

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