Mr Giacomo Marini

KANDO id: 22963

Bio

Giacomo Marini. Giacomo is the Founder and Managing Director of Noventi Ventures. He led Noventi investments in Easy Market (acquired by TUI), M7 (acquired by BEA), Sygate (acquired by Symantec) and Dynamicsoft/Teltier (acquired by Cisco). He also serves as Chairman of Marini Investments, TES Automation and Cosmo Industrie and on the Board of PCTEL (NASDAQ:PCTI). Prior to Noventi Giacomo was a private venture investor. He also served as interim Chief Executive Officer of FutureTel, a digital video products company and as President and Chief Executive Officer of Common Ground Software (formerly No Hands Software), an electronic publishing software company. Previously, Giacomo co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI). He was with the company for over a decade as a Director and member of the management team launching Logitech and driving it to become a world leader in computer peripherals. He served most recently as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer. Earlier, he was Executive Vice President, Engineering and Operations; and Vice President of Engineering. Prior to Logitech, Giacomo was with IBM and Olivetti, where he was involved in the development of early relational database management systems. For Noventi, Giacomo is Chairman of Neato Robotics, Director of Aurora Biofuels, Ecrio, WindSpire, Minerva Networks and investment manager of AOM, Celltick, Heliovolt, Lumenergi.

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