
Chief Technical Officer at Simplicissimus Book Farm Srl
Rome Area, Italy

Chief Technical Officer at Simplicissimus Book Farm Srl
Rome Area, Italy
Versatile mechanical engineer currently working in electronic publishing industry.
Broad experience in financial field, especially in corporate and project financing.
Previous experience in financing R&D projects.
Interested in any opportunity of IT, publishing, finance or engineering sector.
Fluent in english and french (and, obviously, in italian).
If you want to contact me, please email me at: marco.croella@gmail.com
publishing, xsl, business plan analysis, financial modelling, market analysis, mechanical engineering, energy production.
(Privately Held; Publishing industry)
August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for design and coordination of processes in digital publishing related projects: ebook conversion, digital newspaper production and distribution, professional applications e-ink based, ebook distribution platform production.
(Banking industry)
December 2006 — August 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Debt structuring on deals regarding infrastructural projects (e.g. district heating plants, nursery schools), energy production projects (biogas and photovoltaic power plants) or real estate (both in residential and hotel accommodation field). My job is to manage the entire bank process of the project, starting from the creation of a business plan, up to the definition of the financing contract.
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Investment Banking industry)
April 2006 — December 2006 (9 months)
Origination and advisory on project finance or corporate finance deals in the sector of energy production. My job was to create Excel business models simulating cash flow and balance sheets of the project, to define adequate financial structures and to coordinate and support technical, legal, market and insurance advisors in their due diligence work.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)
September 2002 — April 2006 (3 years 8 months)
Evaluation of R&D projects to be financed by the public administration (Italian laws: FAR – L. 297/00 and FIT – L. 46/82) or by the bank (“Ricerca Applicata” and “Innovation Buy” products). My job was to make a light technical feasibility analysis, to evaluate the economical impact on the company and to estimate the potential market of the deal. During this experience, I’ve evaluated about 140 deals for an overall value of Euro 120 million.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)
September 2001 — September 2002 (1 year 1 month)
Research advisor for a European research project on the aeroacoustics outside of the aircrafts. Side job: design of models to be tested in wind-gallery. Responsible of the research: Prof. G. Guj.
Engineering , Aerodynamics, Energy , 1995 — 2001
Final degree: 110 cum Laude/110
Thesis: “Aerodynamic and Structural models identification by neural networks”, Prof. Luigi Morino
Blogging, Writing, Cooking, Reading novels, Homebrewing
Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Roma,
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