Who is Giovanni

• Vision to strategy: Demonstrates exceptional ability to translate vision into a concrete strategy, both internally and externally to foster innovation.
• Focused on growth opportunities, accompanies clients and identifies chances for expansion. Develops roadmaps to achieve goals, aligns the right people, and formulates parameters to monitor results. Sees collaborative opportunities to execute tasks that they wouldn’t normally be able to undertake.
• Analytical: Has an overview of the business and identifies connections. Primarily focused on facts and highly detail-oriented
• Establishes processes effectively ensuring clarity and openness while providing space for feedback and others’ opinions. Writes out different scenarios and consequences and makes thoughtful decisions based on the overall picture.
• Highly resourceful and forward-thinking. Has numerous long-term ideas for innovation and improvement.

Current position

Managing Director Xebia Data 2022.01–Now

• I am responsible for the P&L of the company, overseeing its growth by 240% between 2022 and 2024
• Together with my mentor, we opened Xebia Data Zürich
• I participated and coordinated the acquisition of our Polish hub, GetInData

Experience

Managing Director GoDataDriven Academy 2019.01–2021.12

• I was responsible for the P&L of the company, overseeing the growth by 290% between 2018 and 2021
• Together with the team, we closed several multi-million dollars deals with global enterprises, overseeing the delivery and after-sales process
• I initiated several multi-years partnerships programs with companies such as dbt Labs, Databricks, and Astronomer

Chief Science Officer GoDataDriven 2016.07–2018.12

As GoDataDriven Chief Science Officer, I had a number of responsibilities. Among them:

• Help clients become data-driven enterprises; this includes helping them shaping their data architectures, hire and foster data scientists and data engineers, and, last but not least, help them set them up experiments platforms;
• Help and lead our team of data scientists through the crucial steps of their projects;
• Ensure that the many trainings GoDataDriven prepares are consistent in their high quality, methodology, and format, so that the students can enjoy practice-driven trainings that immediately help them apply the knowledge learned.

As we’re far from being a corporation ourselves, I still very much enjoy designing the shoes that you get when you join the company.

Data Whisperer GoDataDriven 2013.10–2016.06

My daily tasks included advising clients on how to extract valuable insights from (big) data analysis. Being a swell chap, once that is done, we perform these analysis and build data driven products with a stellar team.

I also was a certified Cloudera trainer for the Data Analyst, Developer, Admin, and Spark Cloudera courses.

IT Consultant KPMG 2012.10–2013.09

At KPMG, I was mainly doing source code analysis and code quality reviews. Occasionally involved in the Big Data group and overall always happy to help when some advanced modeling or analytics are needed.

PhD, Th. Physics Leiden University 2008.07–2012.09

I focused on models describing DNA mechanics, taught Statistical Physics and Stochastic processes to Master students and had a lot of fun.

Research Assistant Leiden University 2007.08–2008.07

In the pre-crisis years, Leiden University thought to have a lot of money, so it was paying me to work on my Master thesis.

Education

MSc Th. Physics Leiden University 2006–2008

Exams average: 8.5/10. Total: 8.25/10

BSc Phsyics Università degli studi di Padova 2003–2006

Exam average: 100/110. Total: 105/110.

Languages

Good in Italian, English, and Dutch. Less so in Spanish and French.

Interests

I like reading, writing, cooking, being outdoor, and music.