Marco Asquini - Entrepreneur, Strategic Consultant, Business Angel

http://www.we-sport.com/

Porco Vino is a company specialized in Italian wine&food social e-commerce. In 2009 opened its eshop in Japan and expanded the business both in terms of customers and represented suppliers. The Porco Vino team personally selects the best Italian products and suppliers, manages the relations and the sales in the Japanese market, carves the best info out of the products storytelling. Marco supports the project both as business angel & advisor and, again, enjoys a great friendship with the founders Giovanni Segni and Claudio & Eugenio Velitti. 

http://www.porcovino.com/

http://www.2velitti.com/

Gaga Sports & Entertainment is a San Francisco based technology company working in the sports and entertainment industry. In 2010, during a business trip in California, Marco has been hosted by Harmut Esslinger & his wife Patricia Roller, who among others, is also co-founder and Chairman of Gaga Sport & Entertainment. That’s how he got to know this project. He had then the opportunity to meet Jamie Pardi, Co-Founder of the company, and have a better picture of the project. Intrigued by sports and by the encouraging results, he decided to invest in. Since then Gaga expands its awareness & markets, today has an astonish clients portfolio (Los Angeles Lakers, Manchester City Fc, NYC City Football Club, University of Washington etc)

http://gaga-inc.com/

http://mindthebridge.org/

http://www.italianangels.net/

http://www.kauffman.org/

The business results that Marco has lined up in his experience come from some lateral thinking an instinctive luck in selecting the right team members. In his mind, all this has to be always dressed up with this organization & communications skills. Such elements always in mind, together with the passion for tutoring, pushed Marco to start to develop, in collaboration with Gabriel Moya, a web based sorta CRM (Customer Relationship Management software) which, through the years, became a very innovative web based management system, long before the concept of cloud become popular.

http://www.e-voluto.com/   

In 2001, Flextronics Group, a multibillion euro company specialized in assembling printed circuit boards (PCBAs), owned 3 plants in Italy. One of those plant, the Buja one, 240 employees, was struggling with very bad economic results and planned to be shut down. Exactly what Marco & Dario looked for in order to expand their business perimeter. They bought the plant &, again, they turned the situation around in a few months. When Dario & Marco decided to start developing separate businesses, four years later, they were employing more than 400 people with a group turnover of 50+ million euro. They split their agendas but not their deep friendship. 

http://www.dmelektron.com/   

http://www.flextronics.com/

Spei Orion, specialized in manufacturing & distributinging printed circuit boards (PCBs),  has been the first company owned by Marco, in direct ownership. A challenging project as Spei Orion was facing very hard cashflow restrictions, being very close to a possible bankruptcy procedure. In order to switch the results trend, Marco worked with no time-limit elbow to elbow with his business partner Dario Melchior. Only 9 months later the company showed very profitable results. They than decided that the time had come to vertically expand the business, heading to funding the dm elektron Group.

Lima Corporate is a global medical device company providing reconstructive orthopedic solutions. Marco joined the group at the age of 26 and quickly became CEO of the company. After having reached astonishing results, Marco quitted Lima corporate to found his own company.

http://www.lima.it/   

Development of a very innovative start-­-up in the IRM world (Individual Relation Management)

http://www.filblue.com/

Adaptive reuse, from historical industrial building to district of knowledge.
The wording “adaptive reuse” refers to the transforming process of a building with a strong and valuable historical and cultural impact, in order to adapt it to a different scope than it was initially built for. Adaptive reuse is therefore a vital approach to preserve the environment and not only increases the local population quality of life but also performs a wider enrichment of a whole region architectural patrimony. Old buildings get quickly unsuitable due to their specific project targets, while different political and economical trends require new spaces within limited timing, too short for cities to be able to build new areas.Adaptive reuse is therefore the perfect solution to allow to diverging expectations to magically match.

Marco enjoys drawing simple common sense-based theories, all bizarrely named. One of his favorites is “the pic-nic” theory which simply compares the best business environment to pic-nic events. First of all you attend a pic-nic only if you are a friend or a friend-of-a- friend. You can not attend if you are not previously part of the empathic group. This is why (and how) Marco hired all of his team members, by unexpected meetings and interviews, in a shared taxi or a fancy pizzeria.Then, you have to be aware that in pic-nics each participant brings something for himself and for the rest of the group. No exception. Last -but not least- whenever somebody is "doing something" at a pic-nic he is not working (example: BBQing) but simply sharing his skills with the rest of the group. Happily. A pic-nic always serves the best food in town!

Brothers & business partners. They share everything with perfect balance. Born in Rome the Velittis began from their early years to travel around the world spending a lot of time in Japan, nowadays their home away from home. After being separated for years due to achieve their studies & professional experiences abroad, both passionate by wine&food, they founded Velitti&Velitti. Marco got to know them through Porco Vino project whereof they are co-founders. That was the beginning of their close relationship that they cultivate spending weekends together with others pic-nickers in their little paradise's corner in Tuscany, enjoying Claudio’s delish dinners & Eugenio finest wines’ selection.

http://www.2velitti.com/

V Brother's Profiles

With no doubts the most loyal & committed employee you can ever imagine. Gabriel joined Marco in Spei Orion back in April 2002, since then they never split and created together the Fil Blue System. Originally from Barcelona, Gabriel happily lives in Italy with his Italian family & develops every single project that Marco puts on the table. If you ask Gabriel what are the three most important things in his life he will reply: 1. wife & daughters 2. Marco 3. the dog (sometimes 2 and 3 getting swapped, depends on the mood). 

Pilot, motor addict, father of Valentino, Graziano is first of all an incredible character. Ironic, always positive & smiling, hiding a very sharp intelligence behind a easy going behaviors, Graziano loves to organize any kind of event to enjoy a ride with friends. Marco got in touch with him during a MotoGp weekend years ago. Since than, they regularly spend some time together, in Tavullia or in Pordenone, where they have transformed the giant Sèleco parking into a private serious drifting track. 

Alan & Marco share a deep friendship since the were in their 20’s. A previous world superbike pilot, he is the owner of one of the largest motorbike dealers in the North East corner of Italy (having dealt official licenses from BMW Motorrad, Triumph Motorcicles, Buell, and currently representing Ducati and Suzuki). Alan shares also a number of non-motorbike projects with Marco. Being always elbow-to-elbow when Marco spends his time in his motherland, Alan is the only one that addresses to Marco with truly unfiltered comments (mainly sharp criticism), nevertheless he provides unlimited personal support. A real "bro". 

http://www.motoexpo.it/

Alan's Profile

Marco offered Stefania a marketing assistant position in dm elektron almost a decade ago, when she was running out university. Since then she’s a well-rounded partner in crime, following and supporting Marco in every project.  Stefania joined E-voluto and contributed to the Fil Blue development. She became then the Super//Fluo’s Marketing&Communication manager giving life to the Super//Fluo brand and repositioning, in terms of values & image, the Brionvega & Sèleco brands. Focused on goals, after 4 intense years, she quitted in order to enrich her career with international professional experiences. Although based in Paris & involved in other projects, she can’t avoid pic-nickers reunions & collaborations with Marco. 

StE's Profile