May 2025 – Present · 1 yr

Apr 2024 – Apr 2025 · 1 yr · Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Jan 2021 – Jun 2023 · 2 yrs 5 mos · San Donato Milanese, Lombardy, Italy

Apr 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs

Apr 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs

May 2021 – Present · 5 yrs

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 4 mos · Paris, Île-de-France, France

• Member of the Investment Board of this Fund that applies startups' acceleration methodologies to grow French SMBs.

Feb 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Carlo Purassanta was appointed Area Vice President of Microsoft France in January 2018.
• Previously he served as Country Manager for Microsoft Italy for 5 years, from 2013 to 2017. He joined Microsoft in 2011 as Enterprise Services Area Lead for Microsoft France. He has previously worked at IBM for over fourteen years, leading several segments in France and Europe. He served as Network Services Executive, Director of Infrastructure Services and Senior Business Development Executive for Strategic Outsourcing in Southwest Europe. He was also the official IBM’s spokesperson on cloud strategy.
• Purassanta is 48 years old. He was born in Milan, and has been living in Rome, Milan, Paris, New York and Madrid. He graduated at Politecnico di Milano University and then moved to France. He also studied in the UK for an MBA at the Henley Business School. He is passionate about Organizational Development, Business transformation through the smart usage of Technology, Open and Collaborative Systems for Innovation, Diversity & Inclusion.
• On a more personal basis, he likes traveling, swimming, sailing, playing tennis, and is fond of photography, music, art and architecture. He has two Weimaraners and loves running and playing with them. He has been playing music with Microsoft Italy Band "TheSparks" that was founded in December 2013 and with Microsoft France Band founded in 2011.

Sep 2017 – Jan 2018 · 4 mos

• Area Vice President for Microsoft Corporation in Europe, in charge of the Board of Directors for Microsoft Italy

Feb 2013 – Sep 2017 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Carlo Purassanta was appointed Country General Manager of Microsoft Italy in January 2013.
• Previously he served as Enterprise Services Area Lead for Microsoft France. Before joining Microsoft in 2011, Purassanta worked at IBM for over fourteen years, leading several segments in France and Europe. He served as Network Services Executive, Director of Infrastructure Services and Senior Business Development Executive for Strategic Outsourcing in Southwest Europe. He was also the official IBM’s spokesperson on cloud strategy.
• Purassanta is 45 years old. He was born in Milan, and has been living in Rome, Milan, Paris and Madrid. He graduated at Politecnico di Milano University and then moved to France. He also studied in the UK for an MBA at the Henley Business School. He is passionate about Organizational Development, Business transformation and Impact through the smart usage of Technology, Open and Collaborative Systems for Innovation, Diversity & Inclusion,
• On a more personal basis, he likes traveling, swimming, sailing, playing tennis, and is fond of photography, music, art and architecture. He loves playing music with Microsoft Italy Band "TheSparks" that was founded in December 2013 and has since performed both for internal events (Microsoft Italy's Company Meetings, Microsoft MGX) and external events for example Partners' Meetings and for Charity / NGO Fund Raising programs.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

• Microsoft Enterprise Services has 3 complementary business lines:
• Enterprise Strategy programs to help Clients transform their information systems and innovate to develop new business models
• Consulting Services to effectively implement "best of breed" Microsoft solutions
• Premier Support to optimize Clients' experience with Microsoft technologies overtime.

Jan 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

• Member of the Board of Directors at DIESEL since May 2018.

Nov 2015 – Nov 2023 · 8 yrs · Milano

• Member of the International Strategy Advisory Board for the Business School of Politecnico di Milano.

Jan 2010 – Dec 2010 · 11 mos

Jul 2007 – Feb 2010 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Head of IT infrastructure services at IBM France

Jan 2006 – Jun 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Reponsible for IT Consulting, Middleware Services, End User Services and Integrated Communications services in France, Italy, Benelux, Spain & Mediterranean Countries

Jan 2002 – Jan 2005 · 3 yrs

• Manager of Network Services for France & Belgium, then Southern Europe

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs

Jan 1996 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs