SVP Business Development Europe & Managing Director Italy

• Jul 2021 - Present

Italy Country Manager

• Apr 2016 - Jun 2021

Established in 2015, Soldo allows its corporate clients to manage from one account all employees and departments spending, delegate payments - through Mastercard debit cards, set bespoke budgets, control expenditure, generate reports. Headquartered in the UK, offices in Milan, Rome and Dublin and around 200 employees, Soldo has raised a total of USD 82m to date. Most of the funds have been invested to improve its fintech product. From the series B round progressively more funds will be directed into financing its commercial expansion. Show less

CEO

• Sep 2014 - Mar 2016

Wolley is a services solution provider for Mobile Commerce, Mobile Payment and Mobile Marketing activities. The services provided by Wolley are aimed to enable a Merchant in leveraging the "Customers Smartphone" to better engage and fidelize the Client, while supplying a superior service. The services include: - Sales of digital vouchers - Digital couponing distribution - Loyalty management - Mobile Payment All the services integrate NFC, BLE and QRCODE through a Patented technology. Show less

Network and Services Division Director

• Apr 2011 - Oct 2012

QuiGroup was the Italian second largest Lunch Voucher issuing company. Moreover, QuiGroup is the most innovative company in this market with the goal to develop new services based on state of the art technologies, like the Card Based Lunch Vouchers and the most successful loyalty programs, like a Cash Back system, involving more that 17 Million cards owners. Reporting to the Group President, as Director of the Cards and Payment Division I coordinated the development of new services and the consolidation of the existing ones, overlooking the activities of the 3 main companies of the group (QuiServices, the commercial one, QN, the financial one and PayBay, the technical one) that are the core components of the global QuiGroup offer. Me and my extraordinary team invented and realized, first in Italy and maybe in the world, "EasyVoucher" a new system that through a combination of state of the art techniques transforms a paper voucher into a digital voucher when redeemed by the store patron or at a supermarket cash register. This system eliminates all the manual activities for more than 500 Million of meal vouchers per year in a total secure way improving the whole process for large and independant retailers. Through this new type of lunch voucher, QuiGroup won the last CONSIP tender and some important innovation prizes regarding the HORECA market. You can read more at: http://www.tornaqui.it/cms/lang/it/home/users/pid/287 Show less

CEO of epay Italy

• Nov 2006 - Apr 2011

Euronet Worldwide, Inc. provides electronic payment services around the world. It offers point-of-sale (POS) operations and management services, card outsourcing services, money transfer, bill payment services and electronic prepaid top-up services to financial institutions, mobile operators, digital content providers and Independent Retailers and Large Retailers (Hypermarkets and Supermarkets). Some of the Large Retailers served: Coop, Bennet, Finiper, Rewe, Simply-SMA, Gruppo Selex, Pam-Panorama, Eurospin, Cadoro, Aspiag-Despar, Euronics, Mediaworld, Feltrinelli, Unieuro, Apple Store. The Prepaid (epay) Segment provides electronic payment products and services to enable service providers to reach their end consumers. epay's product portfolio includes top-up or recharge services for prepaid mobile airtime; prepaid debit cards and e-wallets; payment services for bills, road tolls and money transfer; and marketing and distribution services for gift cards, digital content, lottery and transport tickets. Today our Prepaid Segment: • Operates a worldwide network of approximately 475,000 POS terminals across approximately 234,000 retailer locations in 22 countries • Offers a full cash collection and settlement service • Processes approximately $11 billion in over 700 million transactions annually. From: "Euronet Worldwide, Inc. (EEFT) Q4 2008 Earnings Call Transcript February 24, 2009 9:00 am ET" Franco Turrinelli – William Blair & Company Me and my wonderful and motivated team have been able to bring digital contents in all the major large retailers cash registers in Italy and developed the new born gift card market. You can read more at: http://www.corriere.it/scommesse-lotterie/news24/giochi/12_ottobre_2009/accordo-sisal-euronet-italia-per-contenuti-itunes-nelle-ricevitorie-1255432098677.shtml Show less

Chairman of the Board

• Apr 2008 - 2010

E-Pay is a Subsidiary of Euronet Pay & Transaction Services. E-Pay manage and develop a large network of POS Terminals to provide services to consumers: - Mobile Phone Top Up - International Calling Cards - Gift Cards - eVouchers - etc through independent stores like Bars, Tobacconists, Kiosks, and Convenience Stores. E-Pay is a Subsidiary of Euronet Pay & Transaction Services. E-Pay manage and develop a large network of POS Terminals to provide services to consumers: - Mobile Phone Top Up - International Calling Cards - Gift Cards - eVouchers - etc through independent stores like Bars, Tobacconists, Kiosks, and Convenience Stores.

Director of the Board

• 2007 - 2008

Ria Italia is the 2nd largest Money Transfer Italian company. Ria has, in Italy, a network of some thousands of Agents and one of the biggest worldwide remittance network. Ria Italia is 100% controlled by Euronet Pay & Transaction Services. Ria Italia is the 2nd largest Money Transfer Italian company. Ria has, in Italy, a network of some thousands of Agents and one of the biggest worldwide remittance network. Ria Italia is 100% controlled by Euronet Pay & Transaction Services.

Commercial Director

• Jan 2005 - Oct 2006

Being Totobit Managing Director, I was, too, in charge for all the Commercial and Marketing activitities, including: the relationship with all the Mobile Operators, the Italian Utilities and other type of Billers, prepaid contents providers, Instant Lottery distribution, electronic Duty Stamp distribution; the development and care of the Independent Retailers network (65.000 Stores); the BTL and the ATL Marketing activities. Being Totobit Managing Director, I was, too, in charge for all the Commercial and Marketing activitities, including: the relationship with all the Mobile Operators, the Italian Utilities and other type of Billers, prepaid contents providers, Instant Lottery distribution, electronic Duty Stamp distribution; the development and care of the Independent Retailers network (65.000 Stores); the BTL and the ATL Marketing activities.

Managing Director

• Sep 2002 - Oct 2006

Management and development of the Italian largest network of POS Terminals to provide services to consumers: - Mobile Phone Top Up - International Calling Cards - Utilities Bill Payment - Tax payment - Instant Lottery - etc through independent stores like Bars, Tobacconists, Newspaper Kiosks, Gas Stations, Convenience Stores and Post Offices. Totobit in a very short time frame began the Italian Leader in the Distribution of digital contents and third parties processing services reaching a global volume of more than 4 Billion Euro (face value) in transactions per year (more than 300 Million transactions per year). Totobit Informatica has been acquired by the Lottomatica Group to manage the services for the Lottomatica Services Business Unit (LIS). Me and my extraordinary team (Stefania Chiodo Grandi amomg the others) realized, first in Italy in the 2004, the bill payment service to let the people pay their bills outside a Poste Italiane office. You can read more at: http://www.milanofinanza.it/news/dettaglio_news.asp?id=2004090860073&chkAgenzie=PMFNW&sez=news&testo=pagare&titolo=Telecom:%20da%201/10%20bolletta%20si%20potra'%20pagare%20in%20tabaccherie http://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/2004/09/09/da-ottobre-la-bolletta-del-telefono-si.html Show less

Director of the Board

• 2002 - 2006

EasyNolo is the Banca Sella Group company managing: - One of the Italian largest network of POS acquiring terminals - E-Commerce Payment Solutions - Fidelity and Gift Cards - Mobile Payments EasyNolo is the Banca Sella Group company managing: - One of the Italian largest network of POS acquiring terminals - E-Commerce Payment Solutions - Fidelity and Gift Cards - Mobile Payments

CEO

• 2000 - 2002

Novocom was a company created in order to provide the Italian Independent Stores a terminal network connecting a new type of Cash Registers able to provide B2C and B2B services. The B2C services were, at that time, mainly Top Ups, Bill Payments and Instant Lotteries addressing the retailers end customers. The B2B services were aimed to provide, the retailers, a complete eCommerce Infrastructure and Payment Gateway Services (as PSP). Through Centralia Spa, a Novocom founded and 100% controlled company, in collaboration with FIPE (the Italian Bars and Restaurants Association) has realized a platform to provide the retailers a food products eProcurement MarketPlace with the management of the Supply Chain involving all the main food Italian suppliers. Some of the Novocom shareholder's: - Banca del Monte dei Paschi di Siena - Confcommercio - Olivetti - Some Private Equity Funds Show less

CEO

• 1999 - 2000

Zucchetti.com was the italian leader in selling and providing e-commerce services and applications.In less than two years Zucchetti.com became the leader in providing business information through Internet using prepaid cards and, thanks the alliance with Intershop, the leader in the e-commerce applications market. During this period me and my great team (Luigi Maisto among the others) realized, as pioneers, the first service in the world that used stored value accounts to download digital contents form internet. As iTunes is doing today.You car read more at: http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1998/febbraio/02/Nasce_anche_tesserina_per_caramelle_co_0_9802027634.shtmlhttp://www1.adnkronos.com/Archivio/AdnAgenzia/1999/10/13/Economia/COM-ECOMMERCE-ZUCCHETTICOM-MAJOR-SPONSOR-DUE-GIORNI-DI-LODI_010000.php Show less

CEO Telco Services and Internet Division

• 1992 - 1999

In that position he has created and developed the Telco Services Business Unit to address the Zucchetti customers base, composed by Companies and Tax Consultants.

International Marketing

• 1987 - 1990

This department was in charge to support the European Olivetti subsidiaries. The goal of this position was to find out, together with the Country Olivetti Commercial Directors, the right software products to develop the market opportunities. Once selected the third parties worldwide products, the activity was aimed to launch the new products leveraging the Olivetti computing platform. This department was in charge to support the European Olivetti subsidiaries. The goal of this position was to find out, together with the Country Olivetti Commercial Directors, the right software products to develop the market opportunities. Once selected the third parties worldwide products, the activity was aimed to launch the new products leveraging the Olivetti computing platform.