Luca Ascani (Co-Founder & President )
A young entrepreneur, he launched www.buycentral.it in 2000 as the Italian subsidiary of a French shopping comparison site. The company was subsequently sold to the German group Lycos in 2004. In 2002, Luca launched ADVance and as it’s Chairman drove it to be one of the main web media agencies in Italy. Luca was also co-founder and shareholder of First Tuesday Italy, a company involved in the organization of seminars and meetings on Financial and Net Economy topics.
Salvatore Esposito (Co-Founder & CEO)
Gained his Degree in Business & Finance in 1999. Salvatore started his career within the world of the Internet as a consultant on its use for small & medium enterprises within a project financed by the IBM Italia Foundation. Following this experience, he gained valuable expertise in Internet marketing and advertising by working for BuyCentral, LookSmart and Altavista. Before founding GoAdv, he was Managing Director of the Web Agency ADVance.
Giovanni Fantasia (COO GoAdv Group, Managing Director GoAdv srl)
With over 15 years experience in the internet, technology
and management consultancy sectors as well as a solid experience as
strategic, operational hands-on general manager, Giovanni is responsible for
GoAdv¹s overall Group operations, including Marketing & Sales, Product,
Technology, R&D/Innovation and HR. Previously Group Vice President of Sales at AutoScout24 (Deutsche Telekom Group), and CEO of the Italian subsidiary. He worked for 5 years
at McKinsey & Co as a Management Consultant and 5 years at Hewlett-Packard as R&D project manager, later as Business Development manager. He started
his career in the IBM research centre in 1992. Giovanni holds a degree in
Computer Science, a master degree in Information Engineering and attended an
MBA concluded with an internal McKinsey MBA.
John Slyne (CFO GoAdv Group, Managing Director GoAdvertising Ltd)
John has extensive experience in corporate, operational and commercial environments and was previously Financial Consultant to the successful Irish internet company, Web Reservations International Ltd owners of hostelworld.com and boo.com domain names. He was General Manager and VP of Finance at World Avenue Data Solutions, an interactive marketing firm that helps Global 2000 companies achieve customer acquisition and revenue goals, and has held roles as Treasurer, Director of Planning and European Financial Controller at Artesyn Technologies, a Nasdaq listed company acquired by Emerson Electric in 2006. John holds an MBA from the Henley Business School, University of Reading and is a Fellowship Member of the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants.