Marco Verlato, male, born in 1965, works as Senior Technologist in the INFN-Padua Department. He has a longstanding experience in High Energy Physics data analysis and distributed grid and cloud computing. After obtaining his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Padua in 1998, he has been involved in several European grid/cloud projects since 2001 (European Data Grid, DataTAG, EGEE I, II and III, OMII-Europe, EGI-InSPIRE, Indigo-DataCloud, EOSC-Hub), holding activity management responsibilities since 2006 in EU-IndiaGrid projects 1 and 2, in CYCLOPS, e-NMR, WeNMR, EGI-Engage, and West-Life projects. Since 2014 he has contributed to the design and implementation of the OpenStack-based IaaS cloud infrastruture CloudVeneto.it. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications (ResearchID J-4604-2012, h-index 41).