Luigi Orsi Carbone is a tech entrepreneur, founder and manager of five fast growth companies.
From 2022 he is co-founder and Executive President of Viscasolar an independent solar energy producer. Development, financing, construction and managing utility scale PV plant.
From 2015 he is co-founder & Executive President of Catapush the SaaS platform for mobile Push and in-app messaging designed to help banks and large enterprises communicate with their customers in a reliable, traceable, and secure manner.
Between 2008 and 2015 he is co-founder & Executive President of Skebby the innovative SMS API which make simple and immediate for businesses to communicate via SMS with customers directly from own apps or web sites.
Between 1996 and 2001 he is the founder & and Executive President of Planetwork, one of the first Italian alternative telecom operator in the business segment, grown from zero to €30 Mln in revenues and over 30.000 business customers in four years and ePlanet (today Retelit) one of the first B2B independent provider of telecom infrastructures and integrated broadband services led to an IPO in year 2000 with a market cap of €600Mln.
Between 1992 and 1996 Luigi is Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. where he worked in New York, Buenos Aires and Milan, managing teams and advising top management of large multinational corporations primarily in the telecom sector facing technological, regulatory and market discontinuities.
Between 1988 and 1990 he started his career as Assistant to the Finance Director at Ciba Geigy (today Novartis ) a swiss multinational in the pharmaceutical sector.
Between 2005 and 2014 Luigi is advisor for the start up of Heat & Power, grown to being the leader in the distributed cogeneration /energy efficiency sector in Italy then acquired by E.ON group (ECT).
Between 1998 and 2001 he is board member and takes part of the start up of Lansdowne Partners one of most successful European hedge fund that from zero has grown to more than € 16 billion assets under management.
Between 2012 and 2018 he is board member of Italia Startup no profit founded to boost entrepreneurship and innovation as levers to promote economic growth in Italy. A unique initiative in which all the most important actors of the italian entrepreneurial arena are involved.
In 2008 he was among the promoters of Mind the Bridge the international business plan competition aiming at building links between Italy entrepreneurs and Silicon Valley’s vc communities and of First Generation Network the association of first generation italian entrepreneurs.
Graduated summa cum laude in Business Administration at Bocconi University in Milan Luigi Orsi Carbone obtained an MBA (with honors) from Columbia University in New York.
Luigi enjoys spending time with his family, climbing and trekking high mountain and taking care of his garden. He is a voracious reader of books and media online.
Luigi has two children Letizia and Roberto.