Andrea Carcano

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Nozomi Networks

Last Reviewed: September 29, 2026

Executive Summary

Andrea Carcano is co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Nozomi Networks, which secures the operational technology that runs factories, pipelines, utilities and other critical infrastructure: industrial control systems, IoT devices and cyber-physical systems. He is a researcher by origin, whose doctorate at the University of Insubria concerned software to detect intrusions into critical infrastructure control systems, and he co-founded Nozomi with Moreno Carullo to turn that work into a product. After years as Chief Product Officer under CEO Edgard Capdevielle, during which the company passed $100 million in annual revenue and was acquired by Mitsubishi Electric, he took back the chief executive role in July 2026.

Career Highlights

• Co-founded Nozomi Networks in 2013 with Moreno Carullo, now its Chief Technology Officer.
• Served as Nozomi’s original CEO, then for a decade as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer.
• Named Chief Executive Officer again on 28 July 2026, succeeding Edgard Capdevielle, who became executive advisor.
• Nozomi surpassed $100 million in annual revenue and was acquired by Mitsubishi Electric; the acquisition was announced in September 2025 and completed in January 2026.
• Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, with published research on SCADA security.

Professional Journey

Carcano’s route into industrial cybersecurity ran through academic research at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria in northern Italy. His master’s work there involved building malware to exploit the lack of security in some SCADA protocols and analysing the consequences; his doctorate went the other way, developing software to detect intrusions into critical infrastructure control systems. He has published a number of academic papers, including one describing an early example of malware targeting SCADA systems.

With Moreno Carullo, who holds a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence, he co-founded Nozomi Networks to deliver cybersecurity and operational visibility for industrial control networks. By the company’s own account the two wrote the first lines of code, won the first customers and built the company from nothing, with Carcano as its first CEO. About a decade before 2026 Edgard Capdevielle became chief executive, with the brief of building a go-to-market organisation and raising capital, and Carcano led product as Chief Product Officer. The company kept its headquarters in San Francisco and its research and development in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

In September 2025 Mitsubishi Electric agreed to acquire Nozomi, and the deal completed in January 2026, making Nozomi a wholly owned subsidiary that kept its brand, leadership and multi-vendor approach. Nozomi describes it as a $1 billion acquisition, completed shortly after the company passed $100 million in annual revenue. Carcano said at the time that it brought the company “into a new era of innovation.”

On 28 July 2026 Nozomi announced that Carcano would resume the chief executive role, with Capdevielle becoming executive advisor. The company framed it as a return to founder-led leadership aimed at accelerating AI-driven innovation across OT, IoT and cyber-physical systems security. “Everything we do — every product decision, every collaboration, every hire — starts with the outcomes our customers need,” Carcano said.

Education

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Ph.D., Computer Science

Università degli Studi dell’Insubria

Master’s, Computer Science