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Switzerland, Ch

I manage the product area that owns the upper funnel (15 Mln LPs, Search Widget and internal CMS), lead by two remote teams of POs that work together with UX, Technology, Research, Marketing and Content to grow the upper funnel coverage and improve the experience for our users.

Milano, It

The italian Airbnb of temporary shops and event spaces, a marketplace with 3.000 listings all over Italy and 10.000 users generating more than 2.000 requests per year. Funded with 200.000 € of private investments and 100.000 € from an EC grant.I guided the company through many transformations in order to find its product-market fit. Among other responsibilities over time, one of the key roles I had has been the design and development of the platform that What a Space operates on.Responsibilities: business development, product management, frontend and backend development, legal

Lugano, Switzerland, Ch

Moving Minds is a web platform from ARU SA delivering video courses for personal growth. The contents are inspired by the Shaolin Kung Fu and philosophy, with exercises that involve the use of body and mind at the same time. I helped ARU to bootstrap the whole project, from concept ideation to final launch and test on the market.Responsibilities: Concept ideation, content design, MVP design, development and deploy, suppliers research and negotiation, project management, growth tests.

A web platform aiming to build the biggest crowdsourced database of abandoned buildings around the world and find investors in order to finance architectural and business interventions for each building.Responsibilities: business development, web design, frontend development, legal

Advertising campaigns management for the Vodafone Vlive Portal. Responsibilities: plan advertising auctions, manage campaigns' operations, analyse data and modify campaigns based on results, create reports and analyse them with customers, manage the billing process.

I had the chance to be involved in some of the hardest technological projects of the Vodafone company, aiming to innovate the core parts of the IT architecture on which the business of the company relies on.Responsibilities: Project management of complex IT projects, design of functional and architectural solutions, functional documentation delivery

Small firm involved in design, communication and strategyResponsibilities: new clients scouting, platforms and online services ideation and development.

Early stage startup committed to develop and run a listing based platform for second-hand objects sale. I founded Bazzabazar while being in school. Unfortunately I was too young to make it a successful company, but for me it represents the beginning of my journey in the web world.Responsibilities: creation, development and management of a listing based platform and its business opportunities.

Master Of Science, Management Engineering (General Management)

Undergraduate, Computer Engineering

Diploma, Ancient Greek, Latin, Literature, History, Philosophy

Summer Session, Computer Science, Journalism, English, American Culture