About
I lead fonio's GTM efforts in Italy, driving growth of the #1 AI phone agent for SMEs. Operator, strategy generalist and ex-founder with 7+ years of hands-on experience. In-depth knowledge of multiple markets, regulations, and cultural national/regional nuances, having scaled three businesses to date. Hands-on experience in GTM and customer success, developing these functions at scale while bridging between commercial and tech teams. Firm believer that empathy, kindness, and positive reinforcement are key to building resilient teams, fostering community, and leading impactful change
Experience
Country Gtm, Italy
fonio.ai · Vienna, Austria
Present
I lead go-to-market across Italy, owning revenue growth end-to-end: marketing, sales execution, partnerships, onboarding, and customer support feedback loops for fonio’s AI phone agent. Marketing & demand gen - ICP/segmentation, positioning, local landing pages & assets, outbound sequences, lifecycle/email, experiments to improve demo conversion. Sales & partnerships - Pipeline creation → demos → negotiations → close; build and enable referral/implementation partners Customer support & success - First-line support for key accounts, issue triage, escalation workflows, playbooks, and churn prevention Tech/platform optimisation - Improve onboarding flows, voice prompts, call routing, integrations (CRM/SMS/calendar), analytics, and conversion tracking Cross-functional loop - Translate market/support insights into product improvements and roadmap priorities
Founder | Fractional Manager
Stealth Startup · Berlin, Germany
Head of Operations & Finance
Visiocue · Berlin, Germany
Liaison between commercial & tech. Owned: P&L, cashflow analysis, forecasting, financial controls, tax and multicountry regulatory requirements. Set up finance dept to withstand $3M+ sales pipeline and international expansion Supported: fundraising and investor relations. Product development via client. Led: Italian Market: managed full sales cycle & customer success, built sales team
Chief of Staff
Visiocue · Berlin, Germany
Supported CEO in funding, enterprise sales, commercial strategic initiatives, international expansion & global blueprint setup. Set operational KPI/OKR Visiocue builds AI solutions to prevent human errors in aviation. These include mistakes around non-conveyable luggages at check-in areas and visual mishaps during aircraft safety inspections. Backed by logistics leader BEUMER Group, we leverage their extensive network of 200 client airports for exclusive distribution.
Head of Ventures
KellyDeli · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Reported directly to group CEO, owned P&L, hiring and new initiatives
Head of Digital & Operations@Ventures
KellyDeli · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Reporting to group CEO and Italian CEO. Led data-centric innovation projects with a team of 25 to optimize supply chain operations, achieving 78% waste reduction and 32% COGS savings Retailer contract re-negotiation. New business strategy & development. New location opening
Strategic Advisor
- Starbox: B2B sustainable and ethical last mile delivery provider for restaurant. qcommerce and e-commerce proximity logistic - Bonnie Beauty: A premium custom made cosmetic skincare treatment, subscription based, leveraging AI and an unparalleled customer care (+200% sales MoM, +350% customer retention, +25p NPS)
Coo & Cdo
Hotbox Food · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
- Fundraising, P&L, investor pitching, operations, sales, R&D, strategy. Internal process digitalization and optimization - CRM funnel automation setup (Hubspot). - IoT integration. HW,FW,SW dev, product integration and market release. - Fundraised: 2,5M€ to date. Sales as of May'21 - +520% YoY, CAC: -95% - 85.pizza Dark Kitchen lab. Set up a dark kitchen biz for Hotbox's field testing --> 500k€ revenue first year. Turned into an indipendent company.
Coo & Co-Founder
Hotbox Food · Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Hotbox is the professional oven for food deliveries. It is the professional ventilated oven with which you can make superlative home deliveries. It maintains the right temperature and control of excess moisture during transportation, ensuring the quality of your dishes.
Technical Consultant
DTU Space, National Space Institute · Copenhagen Area, Denmark
UMS_QMS Project. Development of drone platforms for research purposes.
Alumni
Startupbootcamp · Rome Area, Italy
Alumni of the Startupbootcamp FoodTech acceleration program. Demo Day the 29th of November 2018 at Station F in Paris. Startup accelerated: Hotbox.
Foodtech Choort '18 - Participant
Startupbootcamp · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Sgp Alumni
Siemens Gamesa · Hamburg, Germany
Siemens Graduate Program - Offshore Construction - Pre-Assembly& Commissioning
Siemens Gamesa · Esbjerg, Danimarca
Veja Mate Offshore: Nacelle pre-assembly & Commissiong - Process Opt.
Siemens Graduate Program - Technology and Innovation
Siemens Gamesa · Hamburg, Germany
Innovation Project Manager - Built AIRBUS Tech Framework for technology scouting in their IP portfolio. Tech tranferred and integrated of advanced casting sensors for blade manufacturing - Startup scouting: collab. with Siemens TechToBusiness division (today Next47). Main areas: AR applications for service training offshore and Supply chain Quality & EHS.
Siemens Graduate Program - R&D - Blade Department
Siemens Wind Power A/S · Brande, Region Midtjylland, Denmark
The Siemens Graduate Program (SGP) is an international development program for post-graduates. The program prepares the participants for a future leadership role at Siemens. The two-year program consists of three challenging assignments within three different departments. Each rotation concerns a period of 8 months.
Aerodynamicist External Consultant
MMR - MoRe Modena Racing · Modena, Italia
MSc Aerodynamicist – Front/Rear Wing/Diffuser Development, CFD, Wind Tunnel
Education
DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Master of Science (MSc), Aerodynamic
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Master of Engineering (MEng), Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering (MEng), Aerodynamics
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Master of Engineering (MEng) - Erasmus Exchange Student, Automotive Engineering Technology/Technician
Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering
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