Giacomo Marini

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Giacomo Marini (born Cugnoli, Pescara, Italy 1951) is founder and Managing Director of Noventi[1], an early-stage technology venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley.

In 1981, Marini co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) with Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta[2]. He was with the company until 1992 as a director and member of the management team launching Logitech and driving it to become a world leader in computer-input devices. He served most recently as Executive VP, Chief Operating Officer. Earlier, he was Executive Vice President, Engineering and Operations; and Vice President of Engineering.

Prior to Logitech, he held technical and managerial positions with Olivetti and IBM.

From 1993 to 1995 Marini was President and CEO of No Hands Software (later known as Common Ground Software). No Hands Software created one of the first electronic publishing software, in the style of, and competitive to Adobe Acrobat. From 1998 to 1999, Marini served as interim Chief Executive Officer of FutureTel, a digital video encoders company.

Marini is Chairman of Marini Investments, TES Automation and a director of Aurora Biofuels, Ecrio, Neato Robotics, Minerva Networks and PCTEL (Nasdaq: PCTI). Previously, he was Chairman of Teknema, an Internet appliances company and Silicon Valley Advisor for CDB Web Tech, a venture capital fund of funds.

He holds a Laurea Degree, cum laude, in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy.

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  1. ^ Hoovers on Noventi, Noventi, an emerging venture firm
  2. ^ Logitech History, Logitech Founders: 25th Anniversary
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