Paolo Werbrouck

Current

Director for Product Innovation at Dada Entertainment LLC

Past

Technical Director at Buongiorno SpA
It Director at Buongiorno S.p.A.
Chief Engineer and cofounder at Tipic Inc. / www.Splinder.com

Senior Consultant at Netscape Communications
Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting

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Education

CEFRIEL - Politecnico di Milano
University of Kansas

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Paolo Werbrouck’s Summary

I currently hold a positions as Director of Product Innovation with Dada Entertaintment LLC, the Joint Venture between DADA SpA Italy, a leading European provider of Mobile and Social Networking services and Sony BMG.
Since 2001, as co-founder, I've spent most of my spare time developing the Splinder project (www.splinder.com): the number one blogging and community site in Italy, which was acquired by Dada in October 2006.
I previously held a position as IT Director in Buongiorno SpA, leading provider of Mobile Services word-wide. I was with Buongiorno since 2001 initially as Operations Manager for their two web-farms and more recently as Director for in charge of their I.T. Infrastructure.

Paolo Werbrouck’s Specialties:

Overall , I have been working with Internet technology both from a consulting, service development and operations perspective for over 12 years.

Paolo Werbrouck’s Experience

Director for Product Innovation

Dada Entertainment LLC

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; DA.MI; Online Media industry)

November 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Dada Entertainment LLC is a Joint Venture between Dada SpA and Sony BMG to target the online social music and media market. My primary focus is to scout the best technology and industry practices to be integrated in the companies online presence.

I've been with Dada since November 2006 and I have been in charge of a number of important projects for Dada such as web performance monitoring, CDN (content delivery network) selection, mobile technology strategy, multimedia copyright infringement prevention.
Technical Director

Buongiorno SpA

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)

April 2001 — October 2006 (5 years 7 months)
It Director

Buongiorno S.p.A.

(Public Company; Online Media industry)

2001 — 2006 (5 years)
Chief Engineer and cofounder

Tipic Inc. / www.Splinder.com

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

March 2001 — November 2006 (5 years 9 months)

Developed along with a group of friends and Internet enterpreneurs a LAMP-based web blogging platform (www.splinder.com) that quickly became the FIRST blogging site in Italy with almost 300K blogs and 200K active users. Sold the platform to DADA (the number one mobile and social-networking company in Italy) in November of 2006.
Senior Consultant

Netscape Communications

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NSCP; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1998 (2 years)
Senior Consultant

Andersen Consulting

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ACN; Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 1996 (5 years)