Serial Entrepreneur; consultant and contractor in mobile, tlc, consumer electronics
Rome Area, Italy
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- Co-Founder at WikiDemocracy.org
- Co-founder and Board Member at VoIPex
- Board member, delegated on mobile issues at AIIP - Italian Association of Internet Providers
- member at Equiliber
- Founder, CEO at GoWare
- Founder and Owner at Morse.it
- Past
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- Co-founder, Vice President of strategies and business development at STW Group
- Co-founder, CEO at Widinet
- Co-founder, Vice President at Portatili S.r.l.
- Education
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- Collegio Nazzareno
- Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
- Guglielmina Ronconi
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Gianmarco Carnovale’s Summary
Early visionary and theorist of the mobile revolution of personal computing.
Continuous learner, committed to apply both formal and experiential learning for the benefit of my own personal growth, and convinced that new ideas come by application of fantasy and lateral thinking to every day's experience.
Experienced start-up builder with six newcos incorporated and developed in last 8 years defining and launching trade activities, mobile products, web services, connected software, plus three new projects currently under development; technology scouter, business developer, strategist on market development and introduction of new products/services, investing where usability drove product differentiation, adoption, and use.
Many goals in building strong and durable alliances, identifying customer needs and creating new market channels.
Gianmarco Carnovale’s Specialties:
Most phases of a start-up management from pre-launch: Creation of new business model, initial business planning, company incorporation, building and management of strategic alliances, market's positioning and competitivity analisys, commercial entrance on italian ICT, telco and trade markets, creation of innovative offering of product/services for specific targets, team building.
Gianmarco Carnovale’s Experience
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Co-Founder
WikiDemocracy.org
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year)
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Co-founder and Board Member
VoIPex
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Telecommunications industry)
July 2006 — Present (2 years 4 months)
VoIPex consortium is an organization with the aim of promoting interoperability and open standards for all the services deployed over Internet Protocol. As a board member I pursue any activity or potential partnership that can be brought to the consortium in order to facilitate its success.
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Board member, delegated on mobile issues
AIIP - Italian Association of Internet Providers
(Non-Profit; Internet industry)
December 2005 — Present (2 years 11 months)
I'm in charge of following regulatory issues on mobile telecommunications, fixed-mobile convergence, MVNO, in behalf of association's members
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member
Equiliber
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — Present (3 years)
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Founder, CEO
GoWare
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2002 — Present (6 years 1 month)
GoWare is a leading italian distributor of solutions and services for enterprise mobility. As CEO I lead high-level company's activities like partnerships, technology scouting, strategies.
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Founder and Owner
Morse.it
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
2000 — Present (8 years)
Morse.it is a daily webmagazine, published in italian language, focused on IT, mobility and Telecommunications.
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Co-founder, Vice President of strategies and business development
STW Group
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1999 — April 2006 (6 years 7 months)
In STW I've been in charge of coordinating new investments, build market strategies and manage positioning of controlled existing companies, as well as leading first phase of start-ups within the group.
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Co-founder, CEO
Widinet
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)
2003 — February 2006 (3 years)
Widinet has been created as a value-added distributor of consumer electronics and multimedia brands. I managed largest part of start-up phase, from zero to 5Ml/yr revenue:
- initial business planning
- negotiation of distribution agreement with vendors (dealed and signed with iriver, Navman, Flybook, GSpda, etc)
- team building
- creation of marketing campaigns on company's brand and products
- building of a network of agencies, covering italian territory
- negotiation of supplying agreements with largest customers (big retailers and mass-merchandisers as Mediaworld, Fnac, Euronics, Darty, etc) -
Co-founder, Vice President
Portatili S.r.l.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Retail industry)
October 1996 — February 2005 (8 years 5 months)
Gianmarco Carnovale’s Education
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Collegio Nazzareno
Scintifice Licee 1986 — 1991
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Università degli Studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'
Political Sciences 1991
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Guglielmina Ronconi
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Gianmarco Carnovale’s Interests:
mobile technology trends, media, TLCs, the next thing
Gianmarco Carnovale’s Groups:
Equiliber http://www.equiliber.org, AIIP http://www.aiip.it, InMobile http://www.inmobile.org, PFG, Roma Aeterna, WikiDemocracy
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WikiDemocracy.org -
Technology & Mobility Innovation Expert Network -
La Fibra che ride
Gianmarco Carnovale’s Contact Settings
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