Fabio Ciucci

Tech entrepreneur, director since 1995; 🔔follow me (3M views/month); available for consulting, hire me; Senior product or marketing manager; 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 with web, mobile, and cloud apps. Sourcing, hiring, and managing tech staff remotely. Business development. CEO or 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 (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

Advising Stonehage Fleming (to be merged with Corient), a multi-family office and wealth manager for the ultra high net worth, which, post-merger as Corient, will manage $430 billion in client assets, employ 2,500 employees, and operate across 12 countries. Note: The opinions expressed in my LinkedIn posts and articles are my own and not of my employer(s).

As a teenager, I learned how to code software on Commodore 8bit, 16bit (assembly), PC 286 MS-DOS (C/C++), earned my first money by writing tech articles for printed magazines, selling my floppy disks by postal order. Before the web, I was a "sysop of a BBS": modem-connected forums used before the consumer internet, like 1983 WarGames movie, but no military. In 1995 (age 20), as a university student, Internet became consumer accessible, so I founded one of the first web companies with others. We showed the Whitehouse.gov site, one of the few existing at the time, offering it to local shops, but they replied that FAX was enough, and no competitor had a website: we were too early! We developed "Amici", "Fillungo Net", early social/dating sites with groups of friends, by taking Kodak photos in person, printing on paper, and scanning, no digital cams, years before MySpace, Facebook. But we didn't raise funds and we kept it local instead of USA/global: 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 on Netscape: Water Drop, Snow on images, Scroll texts, etc. with millions of downloads and used in almost every site (went "viral"), with requests for custom versions. Then I've spun off Anfy from the local Anfiteatro, hiring international staff (including women engineers, I always cared to make my companies inclusive). 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; this is for Internet Explorer: https://www.cnet.com/news/directdraw-bug-causes-crashes/ - shortly later, Microsoft offered to acqui-hire me, but I refused; perhaps I had to accept, who knows? I was bold.