Secretary General

Contact: sebastiano.toffaletti@digitalsme.eu

Sebastiano Toffaletti has headed the association’s secretariat since 2008. Sebastiano authored several articles and position papers on topics such as Intellectual Property Rights, Standards, Data Economy, and Digital Skills, and serves as an expert in EU working groups and task forces, where he brings forward the interests and views of SMEs.

He is a member of the EU High-Level Forum on ICT standardisation and of the D4SME steering committee at the OECD. He is currently Vice Chair (SME) at the European Cybersecurity Organisation and has led the creation of the label “Cybersecurity made in the EU” in support of SME cybersecurity providers. Since 2020, Sebastiano is also a Board Member of the European Internet Forum (EIF).

Besides his mother tongue, Italian, he speaks fluently English, French and Spanish.