Valentino Cavalli is one of the Project Development Officers at TERENA who assist the Task Forces and contribute to technical projects. He is currently responsible for TF-CACHE. He is also working on the areas of streaming media and videoconferencing.
He graduated in philosophy from the University of Urbino in 1987: his studies were ranging from philosopy of language to epistemology and logics.
Before joining TERENA, he worked as a Research Manager at Omega Generation (IT) where he liaised with the European Commission on a number of projects under the Fourth Framework Programme. He was the coordinator of Web4Groups, a project funded by the Telematics for Research sector, which developed a WWW-based collaboration and conferencing service.  Until April 1999 he coordinated the COSMOS project, supported by the Esprit Programme, providing middleware that enabled mobile business applications to run over wireless networks.
He has been working for TERENA since May 1999.