6087 Days! What I Will Do Next

6087 days!

I joined BroadVision on February 2004 to work with Andrea Rubei, a good friend and ex-colleague from the Cisco days. The company was already downsizing but I was excited and attracted by the vision and charisma of its Founder and CEO, Pehong Chen whom I had met few days before during Kick Off 2004 in Redwood City. I still remember the few words he told me while shaking hands: Make Things Happen!

These 16 years had been for me like a rollercoaster of emotions while I grew through roles and responsibilities up to VP and GM of EMEA Region first and, in the late years, VP and GM of Global Services directly reporting to Pehong from whom I learned a lot like Karate Kid from his master Miyagi San.

6087 days spent serving a brave company which had the gut to compete against the big software companies remaining independent for so many years, until early this year when it was acquired by ESW represented on the market by Aurea.com.

Tomorrow will formally be my last day as BroadVision employee, hence it is time to move on and look forward to new adventures, wishing all the best to Aurea and its professionals with whom I had the pleasure to collaborate in these last months.

What I will do? After more than 33 years of working experience I decided to follow few simple rules:

1.      I will collaborate with people I like

2.      I will do what I know and love

3.      I will share my knowledge

While moving and looking around, I’m literally stumbling upon lots of fascinating opportunities, hence it is becoming crucial to prioritize and decide to spend my time only on some of them; as a matter of fact I already made my choices which I’ll mention in purely alphabetical order:

SmartXchange: A guild of ICT and Cybersecurity experts based in UK and directed by an italian visionary who got clear in mind that usual security standards cannot fit with highly confidential information needs; hence the idea to build BondiSuite, bundling together Opensource Communication and Collaboration tools managed in private cloud or even on premise by those professionals who fight on daily basis against hackers who are regularly attacking their clients. I’m joining SmartXchange as Sales Manager with the task to make BondiSuite happen and succeed in the market.

Sparkdit: A genius of data analysis living in S.Francisco developed several software engines to make any kind of decisions easier to be taken. With the dramatic increase of eCommerce orders during the pandemy he envisioned the opportunity to build an innovative Recommendation Engine which will empower ecommerce sites for a better customer experience and increased conversion rate. As VP Sales I joined Sparkdit to help with current Fund Raising and to build a solid sales team as soon as possible.

U2Coach: Last, but not least, a dear friend who dedicated her life to understand humans helping them to outperform in their work and life, embraced my desire to better understand myself as a professional. She led me through a long journey of study and reflections to learn lots of different Business Coaching techniques sapiently blended together in U2Coach’s Master of Corporate & Business Coaching, Master certified by the International Coach Federation. I just successfully passed my Master’s final examination and I will start a collaboration with U2Coach as Senior Consultant: several exciting initiatives are on the launching pad and I can’t wait to make them public and shareable.

Thanks to Marco Pissarello, Fadi Micaelian and Flaminia Fazi who trusted me offering to be part of such exciting opportunities, thanks to all other friends and colleagues who will always be part of my working and personal life and, as Pehong a long time ago said, let’s Make Things Happen!