Akamas is the AI-powered autonomous optimization solution that enables enterprises and online businesses to achieve unprecedented levels of service quality, resilience and cost efficiency - without any manual tuning effort and at business speed.

Cleafy is a leading provider of online fraud management solutions adopted by major corporate and retail banks, payment services, online lending and other financial services. Cleafy provides unique threat detection & protection technology against next-generation attacks from end-user web/mobile endpoints and API channel. Cleafy is a recognised player by major industry analysts and Gartner selected vendor in the last 3 years in their Market Guide on Online Fraud Detection.

As Go-To-Market lead for BMC Capacity Optimization, I managed a small team of Product Managers, Solution and Technical Marketing resources and coordinated all cross-functional activities related to this product line. I directly managed all aspects of Product Management for BMC Capacity Optimization, including collection of customer requirements, roadmap definition, pricing and packaging, competitive analysis and market research, strategic planning and partner relationship management. In addition to customer-facing activities related to my role as Product Manager, and continued to support Sales on all major deals for in all geographies (US/Canada, LATAM, EMEA and APAC) by delivering remote and face-to-face product presentations. In particular, I presented to dozens of US and EMEA customers attending BMC Executive Briefing Center in Houston and to Customer Advisory Board meetings. During my years at BMC, I've been regularly invited to attend to and deliver enablement sessions to Business Partners, Software Consultants and Sales audiences at WW Sales Kick-Off meetings. I have also delivered best practices webinars for customers, training classes for Business Partners and enablement sessions for internal audiences on topics related to BMC Capacity Optimization. I have presented roadmap presentation at consults with leading analysts such as Gartner and Forrester and regularly participated to analyst inquiries and review their preliminary reports concerning Capacity Management and Cloud Operations topics. I have also authored several though leadership materials such as blogs, whitepapers and how-to guides, podcasts and web magazine articles. In 2012 I also delivered a joint presentation with a customer at CMG Connecticut.I manage several social networks dedicated to BMC Capacity Optimization, including a BMC-internal SFDC group, a BMC Community and a public LinkedIn group.

After the initial 6 months of the acquisition, I was assigned to the Customer Engineering & Product Development team as Solution Specialist for BMC Capacity Optimization. I continued to support major sales opportunities in the US market, sometimes also helping Software Consultants in delivering demos / technical deep-dives and executing POCs. During this year my main activity was providing direct consultancy to major US customers on how to successfully implement BMC Capacity Optimization and build an effective Capacity Management process. As part of the Product Leadership team, I was also engaged in Product Management activities, providing key contributes to the product evolution and delivering thought leadership on Capacity Management topics.

As part of the Neptuny acquisition process from BMC Software, I was initially attached to Solution Marketing team in order to provide enablement and knowledge transfer to WW Sales and Software Consultant teams. During these first 6 months at BMC, I supported all major sales opportunities for BMC Capacity Optimization solution and was directly contributed to all major sales on the US field - where I spend most of my working time, mostly in customer facing activities.

At Neptuny, I combined the two roles of Business Development Manager and Product Manager for Neptuny flagship product (Caplan), later renamed BMC Capacity Optimization (BCO) after Neptuny acquisition from BMC Software in October 2010. By leading Neptuny Pre-Sale & Marketing Team I was instrumental in establishing Neptuny as a key player in the Capacity Management market, in rapidly expanding its customer base in Europe and in successfully entering the US market with key accounts. Most notably, in 2010 Gartner assigned Neptuny the title of “Cool vendor for IT Operations”.

After three years at PRIMEUR, I was promoted to Technical Director of the newly-constituted System Management Business Unit and directly reported to PRIMEUR CEO. Over the following years, I played a key role in defining PRIMEUR market strategy in the System Management area and in successfully developing its business. PRIMEUR System Management Business Unit grew up to count 15 Software Consultants (located in five different offices in Italy) and to be recognized as one of primary deployment partners for IBM/Tivoli in EMEA. I directly supported all sales and pre-sales activities and directly contributed as Project Manager and Software Consultant to all major implementation projects for Tivoli solution with European customers and US partners (MQSoftware and Nastel). In 2007, I also became member of IBM/Tivoli worldwide "Business Partner Automation Council".

During my first 3 years at PRIMEUR I worked as Software Consultant and Project Manager on Middleware solutions (Managed File Transfer and IBM MQSeries) and on Performance & Availability Monitoring, Software Distribution & Inventory solutions mainly based on HP OpenView and IBM Tivoli products. I also worked on integrating proprietary SNMP agents into HP OpenView NNM and IBM/Tivoli Netview platforms.

At ICON I initially started as Junior Developer and was soon was promoted to Senior Developer and then Project Manager for several Monitoring and Configuration Management solutions implemented on the HP OpenView platform by a small team of developers for leading Banking and Telco companies.

I developer several several Artificial Intelligence projects as part of CNR and INFN grants.