Experience

Fashion Technology Accelerator

• Italy
• Apparel & Fashion
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder - retired

  • Sep 2012 - Present

  Redwood City, California Founder of Fashion Technology Accelerator. Based in Silicon Valley, Seoul, and Milan, Fashion Technology Accelerator is an innovation and investment group for high-growth businesses and emerging digital technologies in the fashion and luxury industry founded with the mission of helping portfolio companies via a deep fashion, retail, and technology expertise, direct operational approach, and international reach.



TL Holdings

• United States
• Investment Management

• Managing Director

  • Apr 2016 - Apr 2019

  Redwood City Founder and managing director of TL Holding, a firm investing in high potential fashion and fashion-tech businesses at early to growth stage. The firm provides portfolio companies with access to digital expertise and insights in technological innovation as well as executive expertise and market intelligence, business development, and marketing and brand-building.



Naxuri Capital

• Managing Director

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2015

  Redwood City, California Managing Director at Naxuri Capital, an early stage venture fund formed to take advantage of the growing investment opportunities at the convergence of fashion and technology, especially retail technology, ecommerce, wearable technology, and consumer empowerment.



ValuQuest International

• Managing Director

  • Oct 2011 - Jan 2013

  Palo Alto, California Managing Director at ValuQuest International, a strategic advisory boutique based in Palo Alto, that provides investment banking, operations consulting, and M&A transactions services to growth and start-up consumer and technology consumer clients in Silicon Valley.



Itvest Capital

• Co-founder and Managing Director

  • Jun 2004 - Dec 2010

  Palo Alto, California Co-Founder and Managing Director of Itvest Capital, a private investment firm based in Palo Alto, focused on growth and early stage consumer technology and real estate companies.



Gucci, Fiat Group, PA Consulting Group, Rinascente Group

• Executive

  • Jan 1990 - May 2004

  Italy, UK, USA Corporate management (operation and investment) at Gucci (Milan, New York), Fiat Group (Turin, Silicon Valley), PA Consulting Group (Milan, London), Rinascente Group (Milan), including being a Board member of Gucci, New York City.