About Kano
“Kano is built on the premise that surface-level advice is not enough when it comes to mission-critical systems; real buy-in requires credible expertise around the table” — Ignacio Chechile, founder and managing partner.
Kano is an expert firm founded by Ignacio Chechile, a Systems Engineer with 24 years of experience developing technology including space systems, avionics, radars, comms, and industrial embedded systems.
Ignacio specializes in bleeding-edge R&D where uncertainty is high, design space is vast, and speed is king. He has founded tech startups, held CTO and VP positions in space & defense companies and scaled engineering teams globally. He led the development of the world's first SAR smallsat constellation, the first indigenous SATCOM bus in the Nordics, and countless hardware/software codesign cycles.
Author of several books on systems engineering, space technology, startups and tech management, Ignacio is also a researcher working on AI adoption in product development. Expert Systems Engineering Professional (ESEP), certified by the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE).
Our Thesis
Analytical depth rooted in hands-on experience is becoming scarce.
We bring independent expert advice to stakeholders facing real technical uncertainty.
We move fast.
We are trilingual: we speak business, technical, and scientific.
