Fabrizio Picariello

Fabrizio Picariello is a biomedical engineer and CEO and Co-Founder of Tex Tech, an Italian company specialising in the development of advanced knitted technical textiles for aerospace, defence, protective and high-performance applications. Before founding Tex Tech, he spent more than 15 years in the automotive industry, working in vehicle development. During his career at Maserati, he contributed to the development of several vehicle programmes and held senior responsibilities in UX, human factors, ergonomics and advanced driver assistance systems. At Tex Tech, he leads engineering, product development and industrialisation activities, with a particular focus on advanced textile architectures and the integration of high-performance fibres and functional materials. Current developments include knitted metallic meshes for deployable RF reflectors and space structures, protective textile systems for defence applications, three-dimensional acoustic structures and other functional textile solutions. His work focuses on bridging textile engineering, advanced materials and industrial applications, with particular attention to the growing role of technical textiles in the aerospace sector.