Vincenzo De Salvo

Your Speech Factory

Team Leadership: Established and led a diverse team of 10, comprising AI engineers, full-stack developers, graphic designers, and sales professionals, ensuring close collaboration between the different teams in line with the company’s goals.
Product Development: Determined the product's direction, making crucial decisions on iterations, pivots, and discontinuations. Collaborated closely with software developers, AI engineers, and graphic designers to ensure technical feasibility and align the product's user interface and experience with high-quality expectations. Oversaw the integration of ML and AI models to enhance product capabilities.
Stakeholder Management & Communication: Regularly briefed the board and key stakeholders on new strategic directions and results, employing transparency during challenging periods. Navigated potential conflicts with diplomacy, ensuring alignment and trust. Prioritized proactive outreach during setbacks, detailing corrective actions and future strategies to rebuild confidence.
Business Expansion: Forged and negotiated partnerships in the USA and Europe for software distribution. Conducted sales meetings with large enterprises to understand their specific needs, gather feedback, and foster long-term business relationships.
Public speaking: Collaborated with leading public speaking firms to develop the AI and technology behind the product. This fostered my communication skills and enhanced my ability to articulate complex concepts to diverse audiences.

CEO & Co-founder

Sony Mobile Communications

Drive the development and deployment of Supply Chain solutions with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to improve business performance and secure availability in the MNOs channels.  
Key projects: establishment of VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory) and VMR (VMR Vendor Management Replenishment) programs; setting up a new supply chain system solution together with a MNO
Main deliverables:
Define supply chain as-is and design to-be in line with business needs
Analyze cost and ROI for new supply chain models
Coordinate test activities with IT and Partners before go-live and drive internal training for new supply chain solutions.
Manage strategic stakeholders’ communication both internally and externally. Work as the single point of contact and ensure alignment across markets on the strategy and execution.

Establish new eCommerce B2B & B2C flow for IoT business. They key areas in scope are: eCommerce platform, Payment process, Fulfilment flow, Digital Marketing. 
Main deliverables:
Collect and define business and technical requirements
Identify partners in the market and drive RFQ process
Drive onboarding of the new Partner and solution

Customer Supply Chain Manager (EMEA)

Tetra Pak

Supply Chain project manager for engineering development projects. Led all the project activities and successfully reduce the number of claims for a key component. 
Led a strategic improvement project with a key supplier.* Achieved a significant reduction of logistic cost
Drove the optimization of purchasing process for European suppliers. Managed to simplify the sourcing activities. 
Performed detailed risk analysis and defined mitigation plan for projects’ success. 
*The project was evaluated by the Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) and contributed to achieve TPM Award for the company

Project Supply Manager

Solving Efeso

Working with continuous improvement in Lean Manufacturing 
Driving projects in process re-engineering. 
Developed strong analytical skills and ability to interact with people from all levels in the organisation

Junior Consultant

Expeditors International

11 months job rotation in several business units included Road, Ocean & Air freight. 
First contact to customers: dealing with customer enquiries

Management Trainee

An experienced tech entrepreneur with a passion for AI and product development. I excel at transforming ideas into tangible products, leveraging my strong project management skills. My experience spans from leading my own startup to contributing to large enterprises. While leading my tech startup, I successfully secured three fundraising rounds over a span of six years. Living in five countries has granted me a unique global perspective, making me adept at navigating diverse business landscapes and cultures. I thrive in collaboration, especially alongside engineers, valuing their technical insight and bridging the gap between concept and execution to ensure the end product's success.
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