PickEat

PickEat revolutionizes the event experience by enabling attendees to skip long lines at food and beverage outlets. We also optimize vendor's production capacity, reducing food waste. 

Team management, administration, create partnerships, Business Plan and Financial Plan, management of the blog editorial plan, business strategy and development, communication, investment, management of company relations.

Co-Founder & CEO

Università degli Studi di Genova

Risk Management - https://www.linkedin.com/posts/giacomo-perazzo-352445188_remember-the-juggling-act-i-mastered-during-activity-7186996949286281218-USJS?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

PHD Researcher

Wonderminds

Founder and Tour Manager

Silicon Valley Study Tour

Alumno and Tour Manager (Los Angeles)

Nassa

Co-Founder and Events Manager

FORIT

I lead three corporate training courses: Excel, Accounting, and Innovation. I develop the curriculum, deliver lectures, and manage classes of 20 students.

Professor

Student 

Sicuramente il primo anno non ero pronto allo studio universitario, non avevo un metodo di studi collaudato e funzionante, ma piuttosto applicavo un metodo di studi liceale non adatto all'Università. Questo primo anno ha sicuramente influito sulla votazione finale. 
Un secondo anno, invece, in cui ho decisamente cambiato marcia, alzando la media, trovando un metodo di studio consolidato e che mi frutta ad oggi conoscenze superiori a quelle offerte dal singolo corso, dettate dalla curiosità. Un secondo anno in cui parallelamente al corso di studi universitario ho partecipato e vinto il Samsung Innovation Camp con un fantastico lavoro in team. 
Un terzo anno da 28 di media e la possibilità di partecipare al prossimo Silicon Valley Study Tour. 
Comunque ho completato questo percorso senza mai essere bocciato ad un esame e senza aver mai rifiutato un voto per varie motivazioni.

Student

RadioZ4VR

Podcaster presso RadioZ4VR Podcast, un podcast a tema musicale dove insieme ad un altro ragazzo raccontiamo settimanalmente le nuove uscite sulla scena musicale italiana, commentando e lasciando pareri su nuovi dischi o canzoni.  Effettuo saltuariamente anche il lavoro di montaggio audio per la creazione dell'episodio.  In seguito lascio descrizione del nostro Podcast: "Spotify sta cambiando il mondo della musica e il modo di ascoltarla. Sta cambiando anche il mondo dei podcast e noi tenteremo di farlo insieme a lui. In ogni episodio tratteremo un argomento legato alla musica, indagando tutti gli aspetti della vita a cui essa si collega. La musica nasce per unire, anche se ognuno ha i suoi gusti, per questo avremo svariati ospiti durante i nostri episodi che ci racconteranno quali sono le canzoni e gli artisti che hanno segnato di più il loro percorso. A proposito di artisti, avremo anche qualche puntata speciale di approfondimento sul percorso di vari artisti e scopriremo come sono arrivati ad essere così come li conosciamo ed apprezziamo adesso. Accompagnateci in questo viaggio attraverso la musica e la passione, suggeriteci nuovi brani e nuovi artisti e scopriamo insieme questo meraviglioso mondo che Spotify e le altre piattaforme ci mettono a disposizione ogni giorno.
Ci proponiamo ad uscita settimanale, il mercoledì sera.
Potete trovarci sui nostri canali social personali, dove potete commentare con noi il podcast!"

Podcaster

I have always taken parallel paths to my studies. From one of these at the end of 2020 was born the idea and project of PickEat as first version, we pivoted in 2023 to event industry after a great test:   
we launched our first MVP at the event of Mercatino del Gusto with 40,000 people reached and 12,000 app accesses (22% of total orders booked through PickEat).

We've seen different solution that are trying to implement app on user side to skip the queue and order online. But there are many issues. 

This is why we want to start on vendor side at the stadium. Understanding the production time of any single item, how many orders they can manage at the same time and supplies. With those data working to make a distribution before the game and know exactly the capacity ptoduction time slot per timeslot. 
Then, we can optimise supplies and distribution with pre-orders and machine learning (or AI as today is more popular) on previous orders. 

Then, we can move on user side and let them order and pay via smartphone, the available timeslots willl be the timeslots where the vedor still has capacity. At the same time we don't want to move the line on digital side, so we'll be the vendor with a notification to notify to the user that the order is ready. 

We want to optimize production capacity, saving costs and waste (becasue you make errors due to the stress) and at the same time we offer to fans an experience on the game with no wasting time. 

My experience:
- First place at The Samsung Innovation Camp 2019 
- Second place at Hackathon organized by The Silicon Valley Study Tour
- The webinar cycle "Go to Silicon Valley Virtually" 2020
- Bachelor’s degree in Economy of Maritime Companies and Transport Logistics, in the Economics 
   Department at Università di Genova (UNIGE).
- Course of Higher Education in "Coaching Industry 4.0" of Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa
- Doha Study Mission 2022
- Silicon Valley Study Tour 2022

Giacomo Perazzo

David Rivier

UnderwriteMe

UnderwriteMe is fully owned by Pacific Life Re, and was founded in 2012. UnderwriteMe is a leading InsurTech provider across Europe, Asia, Australia, United States and Canada. With an expanding portfolio, our mission is to provide technology solutions that enable our partners to transform and disrupt the life insurance industry.

February / March 24’ - CPTO ( MVP)
October 23' - February 24': Interim CPTO ( VP ) 
October 22' - October 23': CPO ( VP )

Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPO / CPTO)

 HyScore

HyScore is an Innovate UK award-winning technology business that allows organisations operating in physical environments to streamline core operational activities to deliver quantifiable efficiency savings alongside sustainability targets.

Seed investor 

bloom mentor

Mentoring Product Leaders and super smart product managers early in their career:  Career planning, Product strategy, Managing senior stakeholders, Managing product teams, Product thinking, Working with engineering, etc.

Mentor | Product

moment: time assistant

A powerful app that tells you how you spend your time (analytics), how you can improve it (suggestions), how you can track it easily (log your activities), and how much progress you are making (goal tracking). Private and personal, AtKairos is a coach that nudges you when you need a nudge (notification), gives you all information you need and lets you make your own decisions.

Angel Investor

WonderBill

WonderBill (fully owned by Royal Dutch Shell Plc and a joint-venture between Shell Plc and BCG X until May 2019). Acquired by Legado August 2022.

WonderBill helped you to organise your home finances and household bills while also suggesting other providers that could save you money.  £500m of bills were managed on WonderBill. 

Joined the team to lead a challenging business transformation in a highly competitive market. 

The main focus was: 
- Product strategy definition across B2C and B2B
- Built alignment between WonderBill teams
- Improved the current offering (including strong performance improvements through funnels’ optimisations, UX revamps, and new features leading to high retention, sign-ups, and engagement)
- Built a new proposition offering (90% user satisfaction across 15 rounds of testing)
- Rebuilt and led the product, engineering, data and design teams (~30)
- Building autonomous and discovery teams (focused on customers),  and increased velocity several folds.
-Various transformations: platform, re-baselining analytics, introductions of ML models, rebuilt mobile app, (design systems, libraries), improved DevOps, etc. 

* Dec 19’ to Feb 22': Chief Product & Technology Officer ( Product & Engineering)
* Nov 19' to Dec 19’: VP Product & Engineering
* November 18' to Nov 19': VP Product

Chief Product Officer (CPO / CPTO) - Product & Engineering

Concrete (concreteplatform.com)

Acquired by Quinyx (Battery ventures - April 2022)

Concrete retail platform is used by many of the world's largest and most well-known brands. Concrete provides a SaaS platform helping retail brands to achieve a consistent experience for their customers across their owned stores, franchised stores, and wholesale partners. 

More than 160k stores associates in over 160 countries benefit from Concrete solutions every day.

London (UK) and New York City (USA)

I joined the business to help with the business transformation and turnaround.  

My main focus was:
- Business and product strategy redefinition leading the business to grow several-fold, 
- Product portfolio redefinition and rationalisation ("Sunsetted" most products and created a new SaaS platform to support the business and product strategy),
- Built and led new product and engineering teams, 
- Cross-functional teams alignment, 
- Organizational setup and processes, 
- Recruitment.

Previous roles:
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* May 16' to July 18': CPTO and Board Member - Product & Engineering
* September 15' to May 16': CPO and Board Member - Product
* June 15' to September 15": Consultant product strategy and product organization

Chief Product Officer (CPO / CPTO) / Board Member - Product & Engineering

Skyscanner

http://www.skyscanner.com
Skyscanner is a leading global travel search site, providing instant online comparisons for millions of flights, as well as car hire and hotels.

- Headed up the Flight product worldwide 
- Supported the Head of B2B with the inception and initial product strategy of the B2B business.

 Product Management  - Headed up Flights

118118

Led the digital product development (web, mobile) to launch a new consumer lending company - 118118 Money

Product Management consultant (Contract)

Skive Outdoors

Co-founder & Product

Barclaycard

Innovation strategy and open innovation

- Innovation strategy
- Scan, identify, assess and lead innovation opportunity
- Develop and set up innovation framework and structure
- New Business / Product / Services development
- Advanced digital capabilities

Areas of interest: digital payment, micro-payments, multi-channels, eCommerce, loyalty and offers, social web, business building, open innovation

Senior Manager Global Innovation (Strategy, Digital Capabilities)

Led the specialist team and the cross-functional team which delivered the Barclaycard global digital internal transformation agenda through a combination of tools, behavior, attitudes and awareness: collaboration, web conferencing, social tools, digital libraries, search experiences, infrastructures and a set of new business processes.

Head of Intranet and Intranet Services

CPTO / CPO | Turnaround / Transformation, Startups advisor and Due Diligence | Product Mentor #Insurtech #Fintech #Retailtech #Platform #Marketplace #AI #SaaS

Results-driven executive with 20+ years of experience driving growth, operational excellence, and value creation across startups (WonderBill- JV Shell / BCG X, Concrete (now Quinyx), 118118Money), scale-ups (Skype, Skyscanner, ..), and global enterprises (Barclays, HP, ..). Proven track record of leading strategy,  product and engineering teams, executing turnarounds, and scaling businesses to deliver measurable impact.

I serve as Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO) at UnderwriteMe (Pacific Life Re). I lead the development of cutting-edge InsurTech solutions, leveraging data analytics and machine learning to revolutionise distribution and real-time risk assessments and make life insurance more accessible globally.

Core Expertise:

- Value Creation & Operational Excellence: Led turnarounds, scaling initiatives,  revenue growth and cost optimisations, including organisational design, restructuring, and rebuilding product, data, design, and engineering teams to drive execution and results.
- Business, Product & Engineering Strategy: Built and scaled products from 0→1, 1→N and -1 → N driving market entry and international expansion.
- Global Leadership: Delivered impact across Europe, North America, and APAC, navigating diverse industries, markets and regulatory environments.
- Financial Acumen: Skilled in due diligence, financial modeling, and identifying value-creation levers.
- Scaling High-Growth Businesses
- Board Member & Advisor: Guiding startups and scale-ups through strategic growth phases, including seed and angel investments.

Mentorship:

I am passionate about fostering innovation and empowering the next generation of leaders. As a mentor and advisor, I actively engage with startups, participate in lectures, and contribute to mentorship programs and panels on product management and entrepreneurship. My involvement includes:

- Genoa Entrepreneurship School (Genoa University & Georgetown McDonough School of Business)
- Master of IT in Business (MITB) program at Singapore Management University
- LSE Entrepreneurship Student Union
- LBS LaunchPad

Chief Product Officer (CPO)

UnderwriteMe is fully owned by Pacific Life Re, and was founded in 2012. UnderwriteMe is a leading InsurTech provider across Europe, Asia, Australia, United States and Canada. With an expanding portfolio, our mission is to provide technology solutions that enable our partners to transform and disrupt the life insurance industry.

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