
LUIGI CAPELLO
Luigi is an entrepreneur and an investor. In 2010, he set up LVenture, an investment company, with offices in Rome, Milan and San Francisco. Late that year Luigi opened EnLabs, an incubator and accelerator based in Rome. In 2007 Luigi co-founded the first Business Angel network in Italy, Italian Angels for Growth – IAG – (www.italianangels.net).

GIOVANNI GAZZOLA
Giovanni Gazzola is an investor - with decades of experience in ICT mainly in large companies (Olivetti, GFI) with institutional clients in the area of Central Government(Ministry of Treasury and Ministry of Justice) and Telecommunication (Telecom). At the end of 2010 he was co-founder of EnLabs. Giovanni has successfully conducted numerous workshops organized on a national scale.

VALERIO CARACCIOLO
Serial Entrepreneur, Business Angel, board member in several start-up, Director of Italian Angels for Growth (IAG), formerly Managing Director with country responsibility for a German Multinational company. Competences in Cleanteach, Chemical and IT.

GIANMARCO CARNOVALE
Serial entrepreneur, manager, innovator, StartUp advisor and mentor. Board member and Officer in Visionee, an italian ODM company producing solutions for digital media and connected home. Expert in Internet, Tlc, new media, consumer electronics, retail market, lobbying and regulation. Co-founder of the Roma Startup association.

ANTONIO CONATI BARBARO
Long experience in ICT sector, in the setup and development of new businesses, in the conception, creation and management of Business Units, technology consulting and system integration, with many successful experiences in Italy, U.S., France, Greece, and several Balkan countries. Founder and CEO of Alleantia. Advisor, mentor and director of Italian relevant startups including Spreaker and Atooma. Member of IAG (Italian Angels for Growth). Mentor in LUISS ENLABS private incubator of Rome .

AUGUSTO COPPOLA
He is one of the founders of InnovAction Lab, of which he is president. He co-founded two start-ups worldwide. He has over 15 years of experience in managing international teams. He opened operations, find partners and investors and closed contracts in Europe, USA, Brazil and Asia. Speaker at events and international organizations. Advisor and board member of several innovative startups, private investment funds consultant.

MATTEO FLORA
Matteo Giovanni Paolo Flora, in 2008, is founder and CEO of the technology company The Fool. He has ten years experience as Security Evangelist and New Media Consultant, Forensic Expert: thanks to its expertise in computer forensics, secure programming and management of privacy issues. His field is the Innovation Technologies where he worked for international companies.

PETER KRUGER
Peter is an expert in IT and on line services with almost 20 years experience in starting up new ventures. His experience ranges across project management, business development, marketing, policy, fund management and business administration for Italian and international companies such as RAI, Kataweb, Tiscali, and others. He has a MS degree in theoretical physics from La Sapienza University of Rome. He also operates as policy advisor for governmental and non profit organizations.

FABRIZIO MINEI
Fabrizio has over 20 years of experience in the US, LatAm and EMEA telecoms and innovation technology marketplace. He is currently Head of Sales & Busines Development for Creova, French company specialising in Mobile Money. Fabrizio also has extensive international experience from a number of companies across EU and the Silicon Valley where he's held top executive positions for companies like MobileAware, Nuance (SpinVox), Good Technology (Visto Corporation), Global Metro Networks, Primus Telecommunications, Telecom Italia and Olivetti. He holds an MBA from University of San Diego, California.

AUGUSTO AMATORI
Augusto has over ten years’ experience in selecting, strategic positioning, monitoring and divesting mid-sized companies in North America and Europe, most recently out of a Private Equity boutique firm in Milan. Earlier, he was responsible for International Business Development for Scientific Atlanta, a US manufacturer of Telecommunications equipment, based in turn in Vancouver, Hong Kong and London. He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master in Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

ROBERTO DE BONIS
Partner at Studio Legale Giliberti Pappalettera Triscornia e Associati.
Born in Naples in 1972, he received his law degree from L.U.I.S.S. University in Rome (110/110). In 2004 he was a visiting foreign lawyer at the MacFarlanes law firm in London. He specializes in commercial and corporate law and mergers and acquisitions.
r.debonis@yahoo.it
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FABRIZIO IACONETTI
Founder and Managing Partner of Future Drive NPV management consulting company. He was CEO of Brandcom, a subsidiary of J. Walter Thompson, the greater reality of international marketing communication. He collaborates with SDA Bocconi in marketing, MIP-POLIMI, Politecnico di Torino and the LUISS School of Management. He Designed / conducted numerous training courses in internal and external marketing, management of Distribution Networks and Sales Forces and Communications. He graduated as a company lawyer at LUISS University and obtained an MBA from SDA Bocconi.

LUCA LA MESA
Luca has experience in marketing at Unilever and P & G. Today he is CEO of Publisoftweb, a Social Media Agency with international clients (SBK, Pirelli, Cornetto Algida, Dove, Barilla, LA7). He is a speaker of Marketing and Social Media in various universities and also teacher of ImprenditoriSiDiventa and Innovation Lab course. Winner at the StartUp Weekend Rome 2010.

NICOLA MATTINA
He is a management consultant with a strong experience in the field of corporate communication and marketing. He had the opportunity to delve into several specialties: public relations, internal communication, branding, online communication. In the last years, he specialized in the creation and government of social network and he actively studies the impact of social media (blog, social network, wiki, etc.) on people, companies and institutions. He writes about these topics in his blog and on Nova 24 (Il Sole 24 Ore) and he is invited to conferences and seminars as speaker and teacher.

JONATHAN PACIFICI
Jonathan is a General Partner of Wadi Ventures, a fund specializing in micro-seed on the Israeli market, and he is a Manager Partner of JP & Partners ( www.jppartners.biz), a consulting company for hi-tech axle Europe-Israel. Jonathan has assisted European market development of important Israeli companies and he has assisted major European groups in their activities in Israel, particularly in technology scouting. Jonathan holds a BA in Management from Ben Gurion University and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
jonathan@wadiventures.com

GUIDO PEZZIN
Guido is Reginal Sales Manager at HP Vertica. After a degree in Business Administration and MBA specialization, he accumulated sixteen years’ experience working with large corporate clients in Italy, UK, D-A-CH, CEE, Iberia and U.S. Before joining HP Vertica he managed international business units within global organizations such as CA Technologies, Oracle, EMC and Experian.