Company leadership
Our team brings together three domains that rarely meet under one roof: frontier reinforcement learning research, decades of industrial robotics, motion control and functional safety, and the experience of building and scaling global technology companies from first product to category-leader.
Experience across our team
Our team brings experience in robot learning, humanoid development, industrial automation, manufacturing and safety through previous roles and projects with companies including Google DeepMind, Tesla, Apptronik, 1X, Amazon, Franka Robotics, Agile Robots, NEURA Robotics, RobCo and BMW.
Co-founder & CEO
Nikolai Ensslen
Co-founder of Synapticon - a globally recognised motion-control and functional-safety vendor powering next-generation robots. Mechanical and systems engineer with 20 years in deep tech. Noted thought leader on embodied AI and humanoid safety. Serves on global robot-safety standards working groups, and public & private advisory boards on AI.
Co-founder & CSO
Peter Skoromnyi
Co-founder of Easybrain (unicorn), a leading logic puzzle game company with over 2B downloads (acquired by Embracer in 2021, NASDAQ Stockholm: Embracer B, and by Miniclip in 2025). Early investor in Flo (unicorn), a women's health app. Co-founder of Apalon, an app development company (acquired by IAC in 2014, NASDAQ: IAC).
Chief AI Officer
Martin Riedmiller
Formerly Research Director and Controls team lead at Google DeepMind. Decades at the forefront of reinforcement learning and control; pioneered data-efficient RL; previously a professor of machine learning and neuroinformatics. Founded the award-winning Brainstormers RoboCup teams. One of the field's most cited researchers - bringing world-class depth in learning-from-interaction to embodied AI.
Chief Operating Officer
Jonas Reinecke
Scaled Y Combinator- and Khosla Ventures-backed Daedalus from its earliest days into one of Europe's leading AI-driven precision manufacturing companies, heading operations across finance, people, sales and product. Mechanical engineer educated at KIT, ETH Zurich and Stanford University. Formerly A.T. Kearney and Rolex.
Head of Finance & Business
Alina Kulakova
Technology finance executive with experience across financial strategy, analytics, and business operations. Former CFO and CRO at Zing Coach, and previously led finance and business intelligence at Apalon. At Vesoma, she combines deep finance ownership with strategic business development - building scalable finance systems, driving investor and board reporting, and owning go-to-market economics.
Head of Product
Bart Rosier
Co-founder & former CEO of Etergo - the AppScooter, since rebranded as the Ola Electric S1, is India's best-selling electric scooter and one of the most innovative globally. Mechanical engineer by training, three-time founder, builder of category-defining products from architecture to after-sales.
Head of Supply Chain
Marco Ciuffreda
Global operations and supply chain leader with experience industrialising complex hardware at Lamborghini, Lilium and Vay. Specialises in taking advanced engineering programmes from prototype to scalable production.
General Counsel
Dimis Georgiades
General Counsel with over 14 years’ experience. Built and led Easybrain’s legal function through eight years of growth and two exits, to Embracer in 2021 and Miniclip in 2025. Previously, practised at international law firm Harneys, advising companies on corporate, regulatory and commercial matters.
Head of Design
Marcelo Gutierrez
Industrial designer who built his craft through a practice of learning by doing. He previously shaped hardware across three generations of Tesla’s Optimus, designed Apptronik’s Apollo, and crafted Cartwheel’s Yogi. At Vesoma, he leads the studio, defining the visual language and physical architecture for Europe’s embodied intelligence.