A new chapter for Intella

Milan, Italy, April 2026.

Intella, the company behind Mercury, the mission intelligence software for scalable satellite operations, is restructuring its leadership to support its next phase of commercial growth, product development and investor engagement.

Andrea Guzzo, co-founder and former CTO, becomes chief executive officer. Andrea brings over ten years of experience in AI development, MLOps and product leadership, having built and led the AI division at MDPI, one of the world’s largest open-access scientific publishers. He takes on business strategy, investor relations and go-to-market execution while continuing to own Mercury’s product vision.

Daniele Bellomi is appointed chief commercial officer. Daniele has led Intella’s business development and now owns commercial strategy, partnerships and customer acquisition. He was previously senior innovation and technology advisor at NTT DATA, where he generated over 1M euro in revenue from LLM-based projects, and drove a further 1M euro or more in custom AI model engagements at Moxoff.

Ionut Tanasa becomes chief technology officer ad interim. Over the past two years at Intella, Ionut has been the architect of Mercury’s platform infrastructure. He has more than ten years of experience designing scalable cloud systems and distributed architectures for enterprise clients including Volkswagen, Autostrade and Movyon, with expertise in compliance, governance and security by design. He will lead Mercury’s technical roadmap as the platform scales to production across multiple operators.

Francesco Vitacca joins as fractional CFO. A Bocconi-educated finance professional, Francesco was finance manager at Kampaay through its Series A and exit, and CFO at NoleggioEnergia. He takes on financial planning, investor reporting and capital strategy as the company advances its 2M euro seed round.

Intella thanks Michael Hepler for his contribution as CEO over the past two years, shaping the company’s strategic direction and market positioning. With over ten years in the space industry, including business development at Firefly Aerospace, Michael moves to the role of business advisor, continuing to support go-to-market strategy and entry into the US market.

Together these appointments reflect a single focus: scaling Mercury as the mission intelligence layer for infrastructure-grade satellite operations, and delivering measurable operational value to the operators and partners who depend on it.

Intella builds Mercury, mission intelligence software that lets satellite operators move fleet operations from a 1:1 to a 1:10 operator-to-satellite ratio. Backed by ESA BIC, Creative Destruction Lab and Plug and Play, Intella works with operators including D-Orbit and Telespazio.