VP Operational Strategy Europe, Yahoo
United Kingdom
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- VP Operational Strategy, Europe at Yahoo
- Past
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- VP, European Commercial Strategy at Yahoo! Search Marketing
- VP Commercial and Strategy - special assignment in Los Angeles at Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture), Los Angeles
- MD at Overture Italia
- CEO and Founder at Godado.it
- Head of Quant Research Italy & Greece at Salomon Brothers
- Lecturer at MF
- Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst at Citicorp
- Analyst at Bertolini Sim, Forinvest Sim
- Education
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- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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Gianluca Carrera’s Summary
My operational and strategical activities are always driven by an extremely logical and analytical approach, coupled with a very strong knowledge of economic dynamics and rules that affect customers and partners decision making process.
Always trying to think out of the box and to grasp the big picture, I synthesize all the information in few clear priorities that have the biggest chances to strongly improve the company success probability.
Although I am very relying on an analytical approach, I am able to take quick and bold decisions based on few facts and informed intuition when time requires so. I often trade full knowledge for speed, as I am convinced that an early good enough solution is often better than a late perfect solution.
A good team leader, I am able to deeply involve and engage team members in complex and challenging undertakings.
I always strive to attain leadership in my personal and my company ventures.
Gianluca Carrera’s Specialties:
operations, marketplace, competition, advertising, products, business planning, local advertising, mobile advertising, paid search, content match, corporate strategy, search marketing, small publishers network
Gianluca Carrera’s Experience
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VP Operational Strategy, Europe
Yahoo
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years)
As VP Operational Strategy, reporting into Yahoo! Europe Regional Vice President, I am responsible for cross-business unit critical projects, providing a holistic view of the business, help prioritizing investments and resources, improving asset yields, adapting the business model to changing market conditions and championing evidence driven management throughout the company.
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VP, European Commercial Strategy
Yahoo! Search Marketing
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
May 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 5 months)
Managing a team of 40 people, my responsabilities cover, at European level: search marketing/monetization products, new business lines and units operations (local search, mobile search and small publisher networks), business intelligence and planning, analytics, strategy, marketplace, sales development and operations.
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VP Commercial and Strategy - special assignment in Los Angeles
Yahoo Search Marketing (formerly Overture), Los Angeles
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; yhoo; Internet industry)
February 2005 — June 2005 (5 months)
Special assignement from Overture CEO to lead the efforts to evaluate (at broad level) new pricing models for our search marketing offer. Lead a team of 10+ people covering all areas of the company, from marketing to engineering, architecture, analytics, business planning, products, sales and avertiser communication, partners, global content quality and legal. The effort produced a thorough analysis with indications on action points and further steps that are being decided and implemented.
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MD
Overture Italia
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OVER; Internet industry)
February 2003 — May 2004 (1 year 4 months)
Launched Overture Italia's operations, from renting offices & hiring people to assisting in syndication negotiations, advertisers recruiting strategy and marketing/pr strategies. The office grew to 12 people in 1 year and overachieved and ambitious budget by more than 30%, being the fastest growing country in Overture history to date.
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CEO and Founder
Godado.it
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2000 — October 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Co-founder and CEO of Godado, italian based first european pay per click search engine. With offices in London, Paris and Milan, the company grew, without vc funding, to 70 employees and reached break even in 2002. The company also launched and run the first search small publisher network in Europe, with 30,000+ publishers. The company had syndication agreements with some of the major web properties, including Tiscali, iBazar, Dada/Supereva, Libero, Excite.
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Head of Quant Research Italy & Greece
Salomon Brothers
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Banking industry)
October 1998 — May 2000 (1 year 8 months)
Supporting the notorious London BPA, I was responsible for big portfolio restructuring and fixed income quantitative analysis for Italy and Greece. Restructured more than 20bn$ portoflios in 1999.
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Lecturer
MF
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Ranked one of the best lecturers for Milano Finanza, major italian financial daily, keeping the following classes:
"Futures and Options Strategies"
"Risk Management"
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Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst
Citicorp
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Investment Banking industry)
January 1997 — October 1998 (1 year 10 months)
Working for the biggest european bond options desk, I was responsible for exotic bond options pricing and sovereign and corporate bonds analytics, including pricing of strippable markets. Also developed EU-wide bond convergency models to profit from the unique EU currency with quasi-arbitrage deals.
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Analyst
Bertolini Sim, Forinvest Sim
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Financial Services industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years)
Analyst at Forinvest Sim, and then at Berolini Sim. Developed stocks and index futures computerized trading systems using tradestation and viking software.
Gianluca Carrera’s Education
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Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
laurea, Statistics and Financial Sciences, 1993 — 1998
Degree with honors "Magna cum Laude" in statistics and finance. Dissertation thesis in "Theoretical and Methodological Statistics", title "A Statistical Pricing Model for the New Italian Strippable Market". An abstract was published and sent to the top financial italian institutions, and governmental institutions. Received compliments by the finance ministry. The model became Citicorp's pricing model for strippable bonds in Italy.
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Gianluca Carrera’s Interests:
investment, photograpy, reading, swimming, classical music, travelling
