My operational and strategical activities are always driven by an extremely logical and analytical approach, coupled with a very strong knowledge of economic dynamics and rules that affect customers and partners decision making process. Always trying to think out of the box and to grasp the big picture, I synthesize all the information in few clear priorities that have the biggest chances to strongly improve the company success probability. Although I am very relying on an analytical approach, I am able to take quick and bold decisions based on few facts and informed intuition when time requires so. I often trade full knowledge for speed, as I am convinced that an early good enough solution is often better than a late perfect solution. A good team leader, I am able to deeply involve and engage team members in complex and challenging undertakings. I always strive to attain leadership in my personal and my company ventures.

Mentor @ Winepont is the Italian leader in wine e-commerce, offering an unrivalled variety of the finest wines at competitive prices. From May 2015 to Present (8 months) Mentor @ Techstars is the world leader in providing seed funding, intensive mentorship, and an amazing network of mentors and alumni from the best entrepreneur and managers around the world. From April 2015 to Present (9 months) London, United KingdomCOO @ Reward develops and manages the best loyalty programs in the world, and the first and biggest Card Linked Offers platform in UK. With access to more than 15 million consumers, we use BIG data to help merchants engage with existing customers and acquire new ones, financial institutions to increase customer engagement, publishers to obtain rich and engaging content, and consumers to be rewarded for their shopping habits. We have introduced a new, revolutionary and effective way to connect brands, financial institutions and publishers to consumers. At Reward, as COO, I am responsible for operations, products, marketing, insights, and for scaling the business locally and internationally. http://www.rewardinsight.com/ From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) London, United KingdomVP International, MD Europe @ As VP International and MD Europe at PubMatic I am responsible for the international expansion of the company: opening country offices, hire best of breed resources and blend them into excellent and successful teams, initiate/secure relationships with publishers, adnetworks, DPS, mobile operators, deliver against international revenues and margin goals, represent the company and strengthen its brand worldwide. PubMatic is the leading Sell Side Platform (SSP), and helps publishers monetize their advertising inventory through a state of the art suite of products. From April 2011 to July 2013 (2 years 4 months) VP New Media @ I manage the New Media division at Truvo, formerly known as World Directories. Truvo is the Belgian Yellow Pages with operations also in Portugal, Ireland, Romania and interests in South Africa and Porto Rico. The goal is to enable a successful and smooth business model transition from the typical yellow pages model to a more sustainable value driven one in a multi-media environment. From November 2008 to July 2010 (1 year 9 months) VP Operational Strategy, Europe @ As VP Operational Strategy, reporting into Yahoo! Europe Regional Vice President, I am responsible for cross-business unit critical projects, providing a holistic view of the business, help prioritizing investments and resources, improving asset yields, adapting the business model to changing market conditions and championing evidence driven management throughout the company. From September 2006 to October 2008 (2 years 2 months) VP, European Commercial Strategy @ Managing a team of 40 people, my responsabilities cover, at European level: search marketing/monetization products, new business lines and units operations (local search, mobile search and small publisher networks), business intelligence and planning, analytics, strategy, marketplace, sales development and operations. From May 2004 to September 2006 (2 years 5 months) VP Commercial and Strategy - special assignment in Los Angeles @ Special assignement from Overture CEO to lead the efforts to evaluate (at broad level) new pricing models for our search marketing offer. Lead a team of 10+ people covering all areas of the company, from marketing to engineering, architecture, analytics, business planning, products, sales and avertiser communication, partners, global content quality and legal. The effort produced a thorough analysis with indications on action points and further steps that are being decided and implemented. From February 2005 to June 2005 (5 months) MD @ Launched Overture Italia's operations, from renting offices & hiring people to assisting in syndication negotiations, advertisers recruiting strategy and marketing/pr strategies. The office grew to 12 people in 1 year and overachieved and ambitious budget by more than 30%, being the fastest growing country in Overture history to date. From February 2003 to May 2004 (1 year 4 months) CEO and Founder @ Co-founder and CEO of Godado, italian based first european pay per click search engine. With offices in London, Paris and Milan, the company grew, without vc funding, to 70 employees and reached break even in 2002. The company also launched and run the first search small publisher network in Europe, with 30,000+ publishers. The company had syndication agreements with some of the major web properties, including Tiscali, iBazar, Dada/Supereva, Libero, Excite. From May 2000 to October 2002 (2 years 6 months) Head of Quant Research Italy & Greece @ Supporting the notorious London BPA, I was responsible for big portfolio restructuring and fixed income quantitative analysis for Italy and Greece. Restructured more than 20bn$ portoflios in 1999. From October 1998 to May 2000 (1 year 8 months) Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst @ Working for the biggest european bond options desk, I was responsible for exotic bond options pricing and sovereign and corporate bonds analytics, including pricing of strippable markets. Also developed EU-wide bond convergency models to profit from the unique EU currency with quasi-arbitrage deals. From January 1997 to October 1998 (1 year 10 months) Lecturer @ Ranked one of the best lecturers for Milano Finanza, major italian financial daily, keeping the following classes: "Futures and Options Strategies" "Risk Management" "Computerized Trading Systems" From 1996 to 1998 (2 years) Analyst @ Analyst at Forinvest Sim, and then at Berolini Sim. Developed stocks and index futures computerized trading systems using tradestation and viking software. From 1995 to 1997 (2 years)

laurea, Statistics and Financial Sciences @ Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore From 1993 to 1998 Diploma di Maturita, Classical and Ancient Studies @ Liceo Classico B. Zucchu From 1988 to 1993 Gianluca Carrera is skilled in: Management, Strategy, Online Advertising, Media, Digital Media, Product Management, Analytics, Finance, Financial Modeling, International Development, South East Asia, Europe, Business Strategy, Business Development, PPC