Executive with more than 24 years of management experience in mobile, telecom and digital publishing industry. Engineering background, been a coder for 15+ years. Expertise in building and leading multidiscipline orgs for ecosystem evangelism, business development, product management, product marketing and engineering in both startup environments and at large orgs. Extensive international experience, keynote speaker at 100+ events in 40 countries.Currently responsible for strengthening the strategic business development activities with Enterprise and mid-size business clients for ByTek, martech company of the Datrix Group, focusing on the new and innovative Audience AI solution, which enriches and activates customer/user data through Artificial Intelligence. #AI Before, I served as the CEO of Paperlit, a tech firm focused on digitally transforming, distributing, and monetizing content through mobile devices and smart speakers for publishers and brands. We boasted hundreds of clients globally. In May 2024, our flagship division, Mobilit, became part of Mondadori Media, Italy's largest publisher and media conglomerate.Before that, during my time in BlackBerry, I headed the developer evangelism team in the EMEA region and managed the BlackBerry developer ecosystem globally. My team’s evangelism activities were instrumental for the impressive growth of the catalogue of mobile apps available for the BlackBerry 10 platform in the EMEA region, with over 70K new apps published for the platform in EMEA in just 7 months.In BlackBerry, as Developer Evangelist, together with the Developer Relations team, we generated the largest ever mobile app offering for a brand new device platform the world has ever seen (100,000 apps before hitting US stores). 3x the nearest competitor.Before joining BlackBerry, over the years, I have been responsible for product, biz dev and sales, managing large accounts and multi-million deals with telcos, media companies and system integrators.
I held the role of CEO/CTO in the field of VoIP, heading the product management and sales of innovative VoIP solutions for businesses. Master Degree in Electronic Engineering. Joined Abbeynet in 2000, as CTO, overseeing the development of new VoIP services and applications and managing different groups of researchers and engineers. CEO from 2004.Early adopter and power networker.
Taekwondo 2nd dan black belt.
Listed skills include Mobile Devices, Voip, Project Management, Software Development, and 39 others.