Alessandro Butté, PhD

Alessandro Butté is a chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and CEO of DataHow, with over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry and in developing machine learning solutions for manufacturing processes. He earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from ETH Zurich in 2000, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He later returned to ETH Zurich as a senior researcher in the group of Prof. Morbidelli. In 2008, Alessandro joined Lonza (Switzerland), where he led the downstream technologies group and, from 2011, served as a project manager. Driven by a passion for innovation and entrepreneurship, he returned to ETH Zurich in 2013 as a senior lecturer and researcher to lay the groundwork for a new venture. During this time, he also completed his Executive MBA at the University of St. Gallen, leading to the founding of DataHow. Alessandro is the author of several patents and has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles.