Leonardo Bonanni is the founder and CEO of Sourcemap, a technology company dedicated to powering the industrial transformation towards transparent supply chains. He developed Sourcemap as a research project during his PhD studies at the MIT Media Lab in 2007-2011 and founded the company Sourcemap Inc. one month after the Tohoku Tsunami when called upon to help brands deal with the global supply consequences of the natural disaster. Later in 2013 Sourcemap moved to Lower Manhattan after being contracted to work on supply chain mapping post-Superstorm Sandy recovery by the Bloomberg administration.
Prior to Sourcemap, Leo was an architect, an industrial designer, and a technology consultant working on the next generation of home appliances, medical devices, diagnostic equipment and more. He holds Masters’ degrees and a PhD from MIT and a Bachelor's from Columbia. He has been named among the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere, and among Bloomberg Businessweek's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs. He is an advocate for supply chain transparency and a frequent lecturer on the future of traceability technology. In the recent past Leo has testified before the US Senate, been featured in the New York Time, on National Public Radio and in the French business periodical Les Echos Weekend.
Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., M.A. Columbia University, B.A.