Leo Sansalone

Co-founder · Commercial

Leads commercial development and football partnerships at MINERVA. He is an elite youth coach at HJK Helsinki, holds a UEFA C licence, and has lived and worked across eight countries. He holds an MSc in Global Health and a BSc in Sport and Exercise Science and is beginning an MSc in Economics and Business Administration, specialising in International Strategy and Sustainability.

Mattia Arsendi

Co-founder · Technology

Leads technology and research at MINERVA. He holds an MSc in Data Science, specialising in Statistics and Probabilistic Machine Learning, with a thesis on Bayesian workflow written under Aki Vehtari. Can statistics be used to quantify the uncertainty around players' trajectories to anticipate what happens next in a game? MINERVA is him working on it, believing in it, and betting on it.