Milan, Lombardy, Italy
I am a experienced and senior Telecoms & Technology executive. Since last July, after selling the shares of MavianMax Srl (a company I founded and active in the FWA market) to Retelit Spa, I have been CEO of Mavian Srl, active in the consultancy and production of renewable energy. I have 20 years’ Telecoms experience which encompasses company leadership, start-ups, business development and project management. I am commercially astute and have the ability to translate ambitious strategy into tangible commercial results. I also have a proven track-record of leading start-ups and capitalizing on new market opportunities. I have carried out work in a wide variety of countries with a particular emphasis on emerging markets. I speak fluent English and Italian. Skills word cloud: Leadership, P&L, VoIP, Wireless, Telecoms, IOT (Internet of Things), Business Development, Project Management, Program Management, Negotiation, Strategy, Strategic Decision Making, Staff Management and Entrepreneurship.
Renewable energy consulting and production.
MavianMax, Italy 2008 to date Founder and CEO Wireless Internet Service Provider (FWA) • I co-founded this company operating in the Digital Divide market with a mission to create and/or improve the quality of service for business customers; we broke even in just two years and investments were supported by cash-flow generation. I design and implement networks and prepare customized offering with full P&L responsibility. • Technology: fixed wireless access solutions, PTP dedicated radio links, licensed RF band. The network model is based on BTS located close to the Industrial areas, outdoor CPEs (PTP solutions) for high-quality fixed line services (500Mbit/s up to 10Gbit/s). • IOT (Internet of Things): Solutions for Business applications. • Cloud Hot Spot Solution for Business applications. In July 2025 the company was acquired 100% by Retelit Spa
Co-founder & Business Development Lead Wholesales Services (Voice and Data), VoIP Trading Company • I co-founded this long distance call traffic/VoIP company. I developed strategy and the business model, negotiated terms and conditions with international carriers (wholesale business) and led business development. • We exceeded sales targets every year (turnover in 2007 was 32 million Euros). We also exceeded new client targets; winning more than 50 customers worldwide in just three years. We had customers in a range of countries including Algeria, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Moldavia, Morocco and Romania.
Co-founder • I co-founded this company to take advantage of Telecoms market deregulation. • I worked as CTO handling voice/data network planning and engineering (using Nortel and Lucent technology), designing and implementing services, planning network capacity, monitoring network performance and traffic management, I led a team of 15 employees. • I also worked as COO and Product Marketing VP: we cabled large areas of Italy with optic fiber, defined product and market propositions, assessed the impact of regulatory change on ULL (Unbundling Local Loop), analysed competitor developments, analysed customer usage profiles and developed new tailored service offering for different market segments. • I led a stock exchange IPO in 2000 to sustain growth and investment (350 million Euros).
Project Manager – Eastern Europe and Asia • I managed a large range of projects, working closely with Mercury Communications, Celcom, Binarjiang and BPL. Projects included One 2 One in London; project planning and management for installation, line up and after sales, implementation of a local Indian GSM network and installation, line up and after sales service for a major Malaysian GSM Telecoms provider.