The Team | Who We Are

Growing Team with Special Expertise  

Since 2025, this area of activity has expanded and become more specialized, with a growing number of members from the fields of marine, mechanical, electronic, electrical and mechatronic engineering. The team has changed its name to Hybrid and Electric Drive Solutions to emphasize its expanded experience in all-electric drives.  

With decades of experience in the planning, manufacture and commissioning of complex systems, VULKAN has the prerequisites to take on a leading role in this market sector and equip boats in such a way that they are powered in a way that conserves resources as well as being reliable and comfortable. The Hybrid and Electric Drive Solutions team can already boast a large number of successfully completed reference projects in the field of hybrid or fully electric drive systems.  

These are the team members:

Matteo Zangrandi

Team Leader

Naval Engineer, he takes care of projects and team members’ coordination as well as hybrid and electric Business Development worldwide. 

Andrea Vianello

Head of Project Management

Mechatronic Engineer, he is responsible of the Project Management team in charge of system engineering, suppliers’ technical coordination and management of dedicated team members to each project. 

Riccardo Cenonfolo

Junior Project Manager

Naval Engineer, he is part of the Project Management team, in charge of project planning, coordination, and execution. 

Gianluca Sartori

Service Manager

Mechanical Engineer, he coordinates onsite activities, commission and After Sales services. 

Giulio Gennaro

Sales Area Manager

Mechanical Engineer, he is responsible for hybrid and electric sales activities in Italy as well as for relationship with academic entities and public founded programs. 

Daniele Malagnino

Buyer

Management Engineer, he selects and identifies the best suppliers for hybrid and electric projects.  

Sara Chiapuzzi

Sales Support & Buyer

Long expertise in sales support for pleasure craft applications. She is the reference point for the whole team, especially focusing on purchasing activities. 

Matteo Lacirignola

Electric and Automation Manager

Electrical Engineer, he is responsible for electrical design for power distribution and automation systems. 

Daniele Sacchi

Research & Development Manager

Responsible for new products design and technically development of complex R&D projects as well as the LaboBoat

We are:

  • Flexible: We can be designers, suppliers, integrators, service providers or all-in-one, depending on project and customers’ request.
  • Customer oriented: We listen to our customers.
  • We design and supply hybrid and electric propulsion systems best suited to the vessel’s type and relevant operating profile.
  • A multi-disciplinary team: We are an international company with wide-ranging expertise (mechanical, electrical, software, integration, project management and service skills).
  • International: The team is mainly based in Italy and interacts with all VULKAN companies.
  • A smart, young, well-coordinated team, with many years of intensive collaboration.
  • Experts: We have designed and supplied many systems for different applications.