
Founder and CEO Blogo.it
Milan Area, Italy

Founder and CEO Blogo.it
Milan Area, Italy
(Internet industry)
2004 — Present (5 years )
Blogo.it manages different web properties in Italy, Spain, Brazil, UK and France. The Blogo.it blog network has now a reach of more than 6,5 milion users in Italy, 1 milion in Brazil and Spain and 0,5 milion in UK and France. In 2009 we relaunched aziende.it (community driven Yellow Pages) with a web site and iPhone application and revamped the Splinder.com platform that has now more than 5 milion unique users a month.
(Internet industry)
December 2004 — Present (5 years 1 month)
Founder of Blogo.it, the most visited vertical blog network in Italy. We sold a first stake (30%) to Dada (RCS Media Group) in February 2007 and a second stake (40%) in July 2008.
(Internet industry)
April 2003 — March 2008 (5 years )
In Maki we bought the assests of Club Nautilus, an Italian ISP with more than 15 offices around Italy and 5000 small and medium sized customers. After the Internet crisis we resized the company from 150 to 20 employes and make it profitable after two years. I sold my shares of Maki in March 2008 to a private investor.
(Internet industry)
July 1996 — February 2003 (6 years 8 months)
Founder of Communicate! Srl, a Milan based web agency. In Communicate! I worked as programmer, project manager, account and then CEO. Communicate! developed Internet and Intranet applications for mid and big sized companies: Alcoa SA, McKinsey & Company, Banca Intesa, Daimler Chrysler, Poste Italiane.
In 2003 we sold Communitate! to a pre-IPO company. After the acquisition I was confirmed as CEO and stayed there for two more years.
(Internet industry)
October 1999 — June 2001 (1 year 9 months)
Founder of Livesupport, where we developed an online customer service solution (Livechat) used by big companies such as Fininvest/Jumpy (Grande Fratello). I sold my shares in 2001 to a private investor.