- Giacomo Marini
Giacomo Marini (born
Cugnoli , Pescara, Italy 1951) is founder and Managing Director atNoventi [Hoovers on Noventi, [http://www.hoovers.com/noventi/--ID__99885--/freeuk-co-factsheet.xhtml Noventi, an emerging venture firm] ] , an early-stage technology venture capital firm, based inSilicon Valley .In 1981, Marini co-founded
Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) withDaniel Borel andPierluigi Zappacosta [Logitech History, [http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/175/481&cl=us,en Logitech Founders: 25th Anniversary] ] . He was with the company until 1992 as a director and member of the management team launching Logitech and driving it to become a world leader in computer-input devices. He served most recently as Executive VP, Chief Operating Officer. Earlier, he was Executive Vice President, Engineering and Operations; and Vice President of Engineering.Prior to
Logitech , he held technical and managerial positions withOlivetti andIBM .From 1993 to 1995 Marini was President and CEO of No Hands Software (later known as Common Ground Software). No Hands Software created one of the first electronic publishing software, in the style of, and competitive to
Adobe Acrobat . From 1998 to 1999, Marini served as interim Chief Executive Officer of FutureTel, a digital video encoders company.Marini is Chairman of Marini Investments, TES Automation and a director of Aurora Biofuels, Ecrio, Neato Robotics,
Minerva Networks andPCTEL (Nasdaq: PCTI). Previously, he was Chairman of Teknema, an Internet appliances company and Silicon Valley Advisor for CDB Web Tech, a venture capital fund of funds.He holds a Laurea Degree, cum laude, in Computer Science from the
University of Pisa , Italy.External links
* [http://www.marini.net Marini Investments]
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