Passionate entrepreneur and Business & Start Up Consultant, Giovanni comes from an academic background in Business Economics at the Ca ' Foscari University of Venice, International Management at the Bocconi University of Milan and holds an MBA in India from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He helped launch several startups and a business incubator in Geneva. Among his work experiences abroad, he was Operations Director at a luxury travel Start Up in California, Purchasing Manager at the EMEA headquarters of Procter & Gamble in Geneva for three years. He then worked as Executive in Promerchant's headquarters in Frankfurt, managing outsourcing projects for Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci and Beiersdorf (Nivea). As of 2017, he returned to Italy launching his consulting activity (Simple) and also opeating directly as an entrepreneur, in 3 local activities.