Feb 1998 – Present · 28 yrs 4 mos · Lucca, Tuscany, Italy · Hybrid

• Tech entrepreneur and director since 1996; 🔔follow me (2M views/month); Senior product or marketing manager in small to large companies; ex startup CEO, CTO, CMO, co-founder. I learn fast. Contact me on LinkedIn or at fabci@anfyteam.com
• I worked on tech investments, funding, private equity, VC, M&A, and innovation of businesses with web, mobile, and cloud apps. Sourcing, hiring, and managing tech staff remotely. Business development. CEO or senior tech product, marketing, sales manager. Experience:
• 30 years of setting up or helping startups, hiring and managing remote teams worldwide, from start to sales growth to exit.
• VC, private equity, both investor role (scout and pick deals) and founder (pitch and get funded).
• Wealth management & FinTech (reference: Stonehage Fleming).
• Founder mode: entrepreneur when an employee or consultant, too.
• Gender equality, ally of women in tech, impact SRI ESG SGD.
• AI, Big data, analytics, machine learning.
• Cyber Security, risk management, anti-fraud, regtech.
• Product Marketing, Advertising, media buying.
• Video games, 3D, AR, social platforms.
• IT, Web + mobile apps, software outsourcing worldwide in many verticals. Competitive tech evaluation and positioning.
• EXAMPLES: 1998: Anfy Java, the first web special effects design tool for Windows & Mac with millions of users. 2001: apps and games on Nokia, Motorola cell phones, distributed to telecoms (5 years before iOS/Android existed). 2004: Mobile chat systems; 2010s: banking, fintech. 2020s: Job marketplaces, DevOps, Health Tech.
• I interface with investors, founders, and CTOs (down to source code). Market research, strategic forecasts. Sales, Business Development. Supervise testing, launch, advertising, compliance, partnerships; draft manuals, legal, and procedures. Find the right people to form teams. Advise on scaling up, marketing, sales, usability, and profitability. Operations. Exit strategy, M&A. Having fun too. Contact me here or at fabci@anfyteam.com

Oct 1995 – Jan 1998 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Lucca, Italy

• As a teenager, I learned how to code software on Commodore and IBM PC 286 and earned my first money by writing tech articles on printed magazines, and selling tutorial and software disks by postal order. Before the web, I was a "sysop of a BBS": systems used before the consumer internet, like 1983 WarGames movie, but no military.
• In 1995 (age 20), as a university student when the Internet became consumer accessible, I founded one of the first web companies with others. We demonstrated to local businesses the Whitehouse.gov site, one of the few existing at the time, asking if they wanted a web site, too. Everyone replied that FAX was enough, and no competitor had a website. They were right, we were too early.
• We developed experiments ("Amici", "Fillungo Net"), early social/dating sites with groups of friends (by taking Kodak photos on streets, printing on paper, and scanning them, no digital cams!): years before MySpace, Facebook. However, like others, we failed to make that profitable: we didn't raise funds and we kept local instead of targeting the USA. A valuable lesson worth the cost of the failure; I orderly failed more times later; that's the reality of entrepreneurship and startups.
• Luckily, when Java 1.0 beta was out in 1995, I was among the first to release animated web special effects Applets: Water Drop, Snow on images, Scroll texts, etc. with millions of downloads, used in many sites, with requests for custom versions.
• Then I've spun-off Anfy from the local Anfiteatro, hiring international staff (including women engineers). It was too easy to get business at that time: we worked for Intel, NVIDIA, VC backed dot com (bubble) startups of Silicon Valley, until the bubble burst.
• Ethical hacking: I was in the news for discovering security holes ( https://www.cnet.com/news/directdraw-bug-causes-crashes/ ).