Gabriele Gresta

Current

• Partner at LiveXtension
• Owner, Founder & Deputy Chairman at DIGITAL MAGICS GROUP
• New Technology & Media Evangelist at Digital Magics

• New Technology & Media Evangelist at Digital Magics
• New Technology & Media Evangelist at DIGITAL MAGICS
• President, Owner and Founder at BIBOP RESEARCH, Int.

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Past

• Author, Producer and Host at MTV
• Co-Host, Autor at RADIO DEEJAY
• Author, Host Perfomer at Telemontecarlo

• Art Director, PR, Press Office at Pascià, Energy, Cap Creus, Cose Di Notte, Piazza Grande
• Computer Science Teacher at En. A.i.p
• Software Development Director at Alpha center International

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Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano
• Università degli Studi di Siena
• Istituto Tecnico Commerciale M. Buonarroti

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Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Company
• My Company
• Facebook Profile

Gabriele Gresta’s Summary

I started working at a very young age in the software field. By age 15, I was Software Development Director in a multinational company (Alpha Center). At 16 I created the first super-learning system with various technical internships in the UK, US and Australia.
Discovered by Marco Biondi (Radio Dj), I unleashed my musical creativity with the Mato Grosso digital dance music project, that hits the first position of the Italian Dance Chart bringing me on a international tour for 11 monts. In five years Mato Grosso hit N°1 several times with a total production of 21 records and one "All the best" album.
I then moved on to television as host, author and producer of hit programs on national channels such as MTV Italy and TMC2 and coordinated Telecom Italia's special events strategy.
In 1995 I founded Bibop Research Int, a cross-media agency that creates interactive events and projects such as the Mediaset portal, the Tv format "2008" for Italia1, Futurshow for Telecom Italia, Tim Tour, and the I-Tv Alice Live for Telecom Italia.
In 2003, I founded the Digital Magics Group, a digital media company focused on the conception, production and distribution of interactive cross-media contents, events and original formats for different technological platforms.
Having gained extensive experience and expertise in all aspects of content production, I'm the Group’s Chief Content Officer, the strategist behind the Digital Magics product offer.

I'm more specifically involved in viral projects, participative TV and new TV formats for the various platforms, working closely with key Italian and international broadcasters and phone operators (H3G, Telecom, Vodafone, Rai, Sky) . “Occhio alla spesa” on Rai TV, for example, is the first TV show where the audience interacts with a studio host via mobile video-phones.

I'm also the inventor of MyCast, a patented web, mobile and television platform that offers video-participative services to Editors (web, telcos and broadcasters).

Gabriele Gresta’s Specialties:

Enterprise Managing, Business Developing, Client Managing, Creative Directing, Authoring & Content Developing, Marketing & Communication Expertise, IT Marketing Expert, Network Building.

Gabriele Gresta’s Experience

• Partner

  LiveXtension

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2007 — Present (1 year)

• Owner, Founder & Deputy Chairman

  DIGITAL MAGICS GROUP

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2004 — Present (4 years 7 months)

  In 2003, I founded Digital Magics, a digital media company focused in the conception, production and distribution of video-participative formats, crossmedia events and digital contents for different platforms: Broadband, Mobile, DTT, DVD, i-TV, Broadcast.
  The company became a market leader, and now holds the stock's majority of 10 other company in 3 nation:
  * Digital Magics,
  * Bibop (I-Tv Production & Rights Management, Community Building),
  * Bibop Tv International (Communities in the Dutch Market - 50% JV with * Der Telegraph Group),
  * Digital Bees (Music Production & Rights Management),
  * Red Button (Tech Developement - 20% JV with Alticast Samsung - South Corea),
  * LiveXtension (Marketing Communication),
  * SportXtension (Sport Production & Rights Management),
  * The Blog Tv (European Blog Television),
  * Doll (Owns the 2nd largest Blog Community in Italy: Il Cannochiale),
  * Nessuno Tv (1st Political Tv in the Sky Platform).

• New Technology & Media Evangelist

  Digital Magics

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

  January 2001 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  As an expert in new technology and media, I'm speaker in leading international congresses:
  
  2008 - Geneva (CH) - "Participation Tv With Mobile Interaction" - European Broadcasting Union
  2008 - Milan (Italy) - "More Than Zero Festival"

• New Technology & Media Evangelist

  Digital Magics

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

  January 2001 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  As an expert in new technology and media, I'm speaker in leading international congresses:
  
  2008 – Berlin (Germany) – “Multi-Channel Betting & Gambling 2008”
  2008 – Barcelona (Spain) – “Playboy Mobile World Summit”
  2008 – Pula (Italia) – “La TV in Digitale - Tecnologie e sviluppo dei contenuti digitali"
  2008 – Milan (Italy) – “Creativity Day – L’habitat dei creativi”
  2007 – Monte Carlo (Monaco) - MEM - Mobile Entertainment Market
  2007 – Rome (Italy) - “New TVs, new business models? Advertising-based vs content-paid model”, Video On the Net”
  2007 – Barcelona (Spain) - “Creating a successfully operative interactive television”, EiG - European iGaming 2007
  2007 – Bologna (Italy) - Seminar speaker “Innovazione e competitività nel distretto multimediale”
  2007 – Wroclaw (Poland) - “Television in 2012”, Prix Visionica International Festival for Television Creation
  2007 – Lucerne (Switzwrland) - “Crossmedia User Experience”, Eurovision Crossmedia² - Eurovision TV Summit 2007

• New Technology & Media Evangelist

  DIGITAL MAGICS

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

  January 2001 — Present (7 years 7 months)

  As an expert in new technology and media, I'm speaker in leading international congresses:
  
  2006 – London (UK) - "Gambit Public Forum on TV Gaming"
  2006 – London (UK) - “Spring Telecommunications and Media Forum”, International Institute of Communications
  2006 – Barcelona (Spain) - “Technology and contents for the DTT” Mercat Audiovisual de Catalunya
  2006 – Rome (Italy) - “On Demand TV”, The TV Evolution Summit
  2006 – Amsterdam (Holland) – “PICNIC ’06, Cross Media Week”
  2006 – London (UK) - “The IPTV Digital Home: Gateway to Expanded Content and Services - Music, Movies, broadband, VOIP...”
  2005 – Amsterdam (Holland) - “World Telemedia Congress”
  2005 – Nice (France) -"IEG: 4th European i-gaming congress 2005"
  2005 – Prague (Czech Republic) - “TeleTV Summit”
  2004 – Lisbon (Portugal) - “Workshop PARTICIPATING TV, TeleTv Summit”
  2001 – New York (USA) – United Nation Headquarter - "United Nations Intellectual Leaders Striving for the Stable Development of the Mankind"

• President, Owner and Founder

  BIBOP RESEARCH, Int.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1995 — Present (13 years 6 months)

  I founded and directed the first italian cross media agency. We developed and produced cross media project for primaries brands in the Italian industries:
  * Telecom Italia
  * Tin.it
  * Wind
  * Omnitel
  * Mediaset
  * Online
  * Mbk
  * Virgin
  * Pringles
  * Panasonic
  * Simens
  * Saati Group)
  We also produced innovative Web site, Tv Formats and radio productions for the biggest national medias (Rai, Mediaset, Mtv)
  Strategic Consulting, including business plan & sales strategy development;
  Community management for the most important Italian websites (Tin It, Mediaset, Wind);

• Author, Producer and Host

  MTV

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  1995 — 2000 (5 years)

  During the first period, I was involved as operative in the first Italian production for the launch of MTV ITALY. I started as assistant in some of the most successful Tv project of the channel, and then became a producer:
  * Kitchen (host assistant – author)
  * Tokushow (Author – Producer – Performer)
  * Sushi (Author – Performer)
  * Sashimi (Author)
  * Sushi Desnudo (Chief Executive Producer – Author)
  * Tiziana (Chief Executive Producer – Author)
  * Bradipo (Author – Performer)

• Co-Host, Autor

  RADIO DEEJAY

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years)

  I was co-hoster of successful Radio Show of the evening programming:
  * London Calling (Author * Performer)
  * Speaker's Corner (Author * Co-host)
  * Lo Chiameremo (Author * Co-Host)

• Author, Host Perfomer

  Telemontecarlo

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

  June 1995 — August 1999 (4 years 3 months)

  During my days in Telemontecarlo I was author and host on two editions of a daily afternoon TV Show called "Altromondo". After this experience, I produced, authored and Hosted two barter Tv shows for the Telecom Italia:
  * Musikafutura (Producer - Host)
  * Clubnet Award (Producer - Host)

• Art Director, PR, Press Office

  Pascià, Energy, Cap Creus, Cose Di Notte, Piazza Grande

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Entertainment industry)

  February 1993 — August 1996 (3 years 7 months)

  Live gigs organization for the biggest Entertainment Key Client. Thematic events organization. Chief Press Relationship Management. Marketing manager. Writing articles, public relations, adv investiments on national newspaper.

• Computer Science Teacher

  En. A.i.p

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1995 — February 1996 (1 year 1 month)

  I teached to 3 different classrooms the following subjects: Computer applications, MSDOS, Windows and Windows 95, Internet, Access.
  Program languages: PASCAL, COBOL, UNIX, multimedial applications.

• Software Development Director

  Alpha center International

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 1985 — January 1992 (7 years 1 month)

  Software Development for Alpha Superlearnig Systems;
  Programming in: MSDOS, AMIGADOS, AMIGABASIC, TRUEBASIC, C++, ASSEMBLER 68000;
  Ideating and producing the first Subliminal Audiovisual Superlearnig System in Alpha Phase;

Gabriele Gresta’s Education

• Università degli Studi di Milano

  Master, Informatics, 1992 — 1994

• Università degli Studi di Siena

  Graduate, Letter & Philosopy, 1990 — 1992

• Istituto Tecnico Commerciale M. Buonarroti

  High School, 1985 — 1990

Additional Information

Gabriele Gresta’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company
• Facebook Profile

Gabriele Gresta’s Interests:

I like things that make me feel good. I love my job, to travel, to grow up with friends, the golf, horse riding, the dry sand, the hot spicy pepper, the ice cream, sailing, stay fit, informatics, the warm sea, a pair of intense eyes, the honey, the first seconds of revival, the good news, consistency, the last second of the evening, knowing things, dancing, a beautiful speech, fencing, the barbeque, the sunset, swimming, changing my mind, to read, those magical ten seconds after making love, the red wine, the right dress at the right time, to be me.

Gabriele Gresta’s Groups:

Member of International Chess Club of Arezzo.
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Gabriele Gresta’s Honors:

INTERACTIVE KEY AWARD 2007 - Best Viral Campaign for the campaign "Liphodistropy"

INTERNATIONAL ITV AWARD 2007 - Short Listed in Innovation & Technology for MyCast Platform

GLOBAL MOBILE AWARDS 2007 - Short-listed by GSM Association for "Occhio alla Spesa" (RAI) tv show as the inventor of the "Mycast" interactive platform, that allow users to video interact live with the Tv show through video mobile phones

NC AWARD 2007 - “Best Holistic Campaign” for the campaign "High School Musical"

MOMO AWARD 2006 - Best B to C Application - Platform MYCAST - In the national tv show "OCCHIO ALLA SPESA" on RAI 1, 5 contemporary video phones can interact with the show live from the italian markets

I-SPOT 2005 - Best Interactive Advertising Award 2005 by Italian National Broadcaster Agency SIPRA - RAI

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