Riccardo Dondi

Riccardo has experience managing both B2B and B2C companies, including e-commerce, Software-as-a-Service, and startups.

As a growth and innovation consultant for Brainiac Cloud:

• Provided strategic consultancy for the launch of a machine learning platform, www.brainiaccloud.ai.

As a growth and innovation consultant for Stirapp: 

• Helped the startup Stirapp.it start an MVP product, expand to ten cities, and collect crowdfunding of €200,000. 

As a growth and innovation consultant for Baboul: 

• Provided strategic consultancy for the implementation of a mobile and web app, www.baboul.it.

Evensi offers a platform to promote events on all the major advertising channels simultaneously. 

• Provided direct support to the CEO in analysis data and making business decisions.
• Delivered growth results using funnel optimization strategies, A/B testing, and implementing new services such as chatbot automation for interactive advertising, artificial intelligence-powered SEO and SEM, automatic ads, API-centric marketing, predictive lead generation, scraping robots, and data analysis.
• Managed large volumes of data with various tools like Google Analytics, Google AdWords, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Ads, and Google Search Console.
• Increased monthly traffic, including six million unique users; 100,000 events added each day, more than 50,000 emails sent each day, and revenue over 200% YoY.

Simbiosity is a consultancy agency dealing with innovation and startups in Italy.

• Worked with a team of five people; in charge of scouting and research for innovation ventures. 
• Managed the design and management of a qualified database by scouting, mapping, and evaluating over 16,000 innovative startups in Italy, classified by technology trends such as AI, blockchain, cloud, and fintech.
• Clients: Accenture, Deloitte, Amplifon, Banca Generali, Unicredit, Prometeia, OTB (Diesel), Ducati, BNP Paribas, UBI, and many more.

Canali & C is a marketing and integrated communication agency, offering services, including strategic consulting during the product full life-cycle, integrated communication plans, media planning, promotions, events, unconventional, internet, and new media.

• Managed P&L of the digital department of the agency, including lead generation and new customer acquisition.
• Developed team revenue growth from 220,000 to 1.1 million (400% increase) in 12 months and team growth from six people to 12.
• Extended the overall community of Facebook fans to over 1 million.
• Managed the development of 24 websites and four mobile apps in 12 months.
• Worked with main customers in the retail industry and shopping malls such as Auchan, Gruppo Percassi (Kiko, Starbucks, Oriocenter), Coop, and Ikea Centers.

Hivejobs is a young Italian company that introduced a highly innovative recruiting system.

• Managed startup marketing phase for Hivejobs (hired as employee N. 2). Full management of the marketing strategy, including B2B events promotions in Italy and advertising campaigns.
• Oversaw marketing budget of €600,000, of which about half for online campaigns, including AdWords, Facebook, lead generation, landing page creation, online webinars, and online events.
• Handled the lead generation and pre-sales team; 20,000 sales leads generated from Italian and UK companies; increased trend in 2015 such as one new customer every 16 hours; and increased growth to 800,000 revenue and reached breakeven.
• Managed growth strategies for SEO, SEM, social media, email marketing, and events.

• Earned Grade: 110/110 with merit.

• Received Grade: 110/110 with merit.