About Us | Sealight Technology — Founders & Governance

The founding vision

A structural problem.
An architectural response.

When the founders of Sealight Technology began mapping the European UAS sector, a recurring pattern emerged across every segment: operators were building operational capability on platforms whose origin, production supply chain and long-term maintainability they did not fully control.

The absence of a dual-use UAS ecosystem built on genuinely proprietary European technology was not a marginal gap. It was structural — and its consequences affected an energy company, a civil protection agency and a defense procurement office in equal measure.

The response was a deliberate architectural choice: build an ecosystem, not a product.

The technological principle

Maximum proprietary control

3D-printed structures, Li-Ion batteries, PCBs and configurable frequencies developed in-house.

Certified integration where it matters

Flight OS, UTM and C-UAS through partners qualified to NATO and NDAA standards.

100% traceable supply chain

Every component is verifiable by the operator. Declarable supply chain.

Trajectory

From incorporation to a fully
operational ecosystem in under 18 months.

May 2025

Incorporation of Sealight Technology

Founded in Varese by Pierangelo Pluchino and Michele Pavan.

October 2025

Operational launch

The company reaches full operational capability in record time through synergies with the Garage Holding group.

October 2025

First NATO validations

Launch of operational assessments with European Armed Forces and in NATO environments. Performance verified in the field, not in the laboratory.

Operational validation completed with international institutional end-users — Q4 2025.

May 2026

Amb. Pontecorvo becomes Chairman of FuturaTech Holding

Strategic appointment of the former NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan as Chairman of the controlling holding company.

Today

Fully operational UAS ecosystem.

International market. The only fully Italian dual-use UAS one-stop shop.

The founders

Complementary expertise.
A shared vision.

Dr. Pierangelo Pluchino

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Executive manager and entrepreneur with decades of experience in consulting, automotive, mobility and defense. He has worked with leading organizations such as BMW Group and Pirelli, developing a specialization in transforming technologies into scalable production models.

At Sealight he leads strategy and industrial development and oversees finance and control, human resources and procurement functions.

Dr. Michele Pavan

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Entrepreneur, geopolitical analyst and consultant in intelligence and international security. Member of the Technical-Scientific Committee of CESMA – Centro Studi Militari Aeronautici. Specialized in Economic Security and Intelligence (SIOI), he has taken part in institutional meetings at NATO, the UN, the EU, the Pentagon and the U.S. Department of State.

At Sealight he is responsible for product and market strategy, with a focus on expansion in the defense and institutional security sectors.

The founding thesis was precise: the structural dependence of the European UAS market on foreign-origin components was not an industrial inevitability — it was a choice, accumulated over years of fragmented acquisitions and insufficient investment in sovereign development. It was, therefore, a choice that could be reversed. Sealight Technology is the result of that decision.

Amb. Stefano Pontecorvo

Chairman of the Board of Directors, FuturaTech Holding

Chairman of Leonardo S.p.A. 2023–2026 Last NATO Senior Civilian Rep. Afghanistan Ambassador to Pakistan Appointed: May 2026 LinkedIn

Chairman of the Board

A career ambassador, he served as Chairman of Leonardo S.p.A. — Italy's leading defense group — from May 2023 to May 2026. In his diplomatic career he held senior positions including Ambassador to Pakistan, Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow and London, and key roles at the EU and NATO.

He was the last NATO Senior Civilian Representative in Afghanistan (2020), taking part in the Doha talks and coordinating the evacuation of Kabul. Author of the book "L'Ultimo Aereo da Kabul" ("The Last Plane from Kabul"). Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, awarded the NATO Meritorious Service Medal.

In May 2026 he became Chairman of FuturaTech Holding — the controlling company of Sealight Technology. His involvement is not an external endorsement: it is active participation in the group's strategic direction, with a clear vision on European technological autonomy in the air domain.

"A country's ability to operate autonomously in the air domain depends not only on the platforms it owns, but on the technological depth with which they were built. It is from this premise that Sealight Technology was born."

— Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo, Chairman, FuturaTech Holding

Operational structure

R&D and production.
Entirely in Italy.

R&D · Systems Engineering

Sardinia

Research, development and systems engineering are based in Sardinia. Separating the innovation function from industrialization is a deliberate choice: it protects the creative process while ensuring production scalability.

Production · Assembly

Varese

Production is based in Varese, leveraging operational synergies with the industrial infrastructure already present in the Garage Holding group's area of operations. Supply chain traceability is guaranteed at every stage.

Italian technology.
Every mission.

A structural problem.
An architectural response.