Luigi Assom

Consultant - Innovation strategy
Candidato verificato
Età 40
Località Venice, Italy
Stato Available

Profilo

Industrial Psychology tests describe me as an enthusiast, with strong traits oriented to solve complex challenges. I pursued a holistic background in Strategic Thinking and Sustainability Studies. I had the opportunity to work on different innovation aspects related to data-modelling, information architecture, human Centred Design. I have passion for planning strategic use of technology and I am a good communicator, with aptitude for systems thinking, for identifying critical drivers and structuring sustainable solutions aligned with business themes, users’ behaviour, requirements. I also co-founded and led a tech startup, where I demonstrated a mindset for connecting complex ideas, collaboration and support for my team, and problem-solving to create value out of few resources. I am driven by values of sustainability, innovation and inclusivity.

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Some achievements:

  • As co-founder I bootstrapped a tech company in knowledge discovery.
    As product person, I achieved 6x retention vs competition in the product category, and invited startup by Facebook at their corporate conference; as a CEO, I procured growth opportunities as seed investment offers, grants, negotiated in-kind investment, and optimised pipeline for improving performance in business metrics.

  • As an ambassador for tech startups, I helped other teams in raising funds from seed accelerators and business competitions.

  • As a consultant, I've been hands on prototyping applied research products (edge on network science, graph analytics) for business intelligence, knowledge discovery, content discovery.

  • As an innovator, I led my team or solo projects as finalist at global innovation challenges, multiple times. Edges on UX, knowledge discovery, decentralised tech. 
    I contributed to peer-reviewed publications in companies and research institute as an independent researcher.

  • As public cause initiatives, I created knowledge discovery platforms for education and learning, and contributed to volunteering projects related to disadvantaged youth and ecological externalities related to urban sprawling.

My values are based on addressing sustainability and inequality.

Che cosa cerco in un'azienda?

I seek for jobs that allows to express well my soft-skills and allows to expand further a set of hard-skills, currently interested in hands on some tech stacks for prototyping.

I can help in strategise technology, research management, launch of new products and services, ideation phases, lean startup and design thinking, product management (scrum, kanban), project management and coordination (life cycle, gantt, swot, data-analysis, dashboards).

Hands-on knowledge graph analytics, data-visualisation, data-science, presentation... and adobe suite and UX tools.

I value a working culture a lot:

  • please tell me abut a situation in which you handled conflict;
  • a situation in which you valued an employee point of view;
  • a situation in which you improved quality life of team by better time management of working activities or resource.

Esperienze lavorative

Agriledger LLC

Advisor - UX Field Research Informed product development (fintech, blockchain-based) in areas with low literacy on finance and IT. ? Advised on KPIs to gauge financial decisions in a low financial literacy context (South-East Asia pilots). ? Delivered desktop research, framework, timelines for UX field research. ottobre 2017 - dicembre 2017 (2 mesi)

Nifty.works

Consultant, Technology & Innovation Strategy I served clients such as GlaxSmithKlain’s partners (life-science) and tech-startups (business intelligence, fintech) in identifying use-cases and developing MVPs against selected target audiences. ? Designed and built full-fledged platforms for business intelligence and knowledge discovery ? Consulted product manager in genomics discovery to identify opportunities with rapid prototypes ? Generated solutions for business intelligence, as finding learning paths in multi-disciplinary areas ? Designed proof-of-concept to quantify the impact of financial and economics supply chains on environmental sustainability and inequality. marzo 2016 - ora (8 anni 1 mese)

Hello-Tomorrow - Global Challenge & Summit

Community Ambassador Scouted for award-winning team at world entrepreneurship challenge (100+ Countries). Organised events with university, business incubators, startups. settembre 2014 - dicembre 2017 (3 anni 3 mesi)

International School Advanced Scientific Studies (SISSA)

Data Scientist Analysed sustainability impact of global food supply, developed sustainability index based on logistics of trade. ? Clustering, principal component, coarse-grained analysis of import / export between 200+ Countries. ? Developed econometrics on top of UN COMTRADE data, worked with HS food commodity classification. Designed presentations for reporting to donors and digital experiences to engage public audiences. ? Outreach - TEDx, Wired, Expo 2015. marzo 2013 - novembre 2013 (8 mesi)

XDiscovery Srls

CEO / Cofounder Pioneered knowledge discovery to accelerate innovation and multidisciplinary research. As CEO: ? Planned innovation strategy (knowledge discovery space). ? Procured growth-opportunities to build a high-performing team: global exposure as Top-5 finalist at innovation challenges in 80+ Countries; procured VC seed investment offers (Index Ventures); ? Established relationships with business partners: negotiated 80% in-kind investment with key partners; invited startup at Facebook corporate conference; featured app in the Apple store. As Customer-centric Product Owner: ? Led product iterations of discovery apps for iOS (B2C); defined KPIs and growth strategy; conducted A/B tests experiments to increase customer satisfaction metrics and performance of campaigns; achieved 6x retention VS competition; 3.5K downloads in the first month (pay-per-download). ? Benchmarked quality and competitive advantage against state-of-the-art recommender systems: (Google Knowledge Graph, Thomson & Reuter, EspaceNet). ? Accelerated time-to-market from months to days while cutting cost 10x VS early stage setup, by optimising pipeline architecture. ? Reduced customer-acquisition-cost by 4x by automating digital marketing against customer segmentation on multi-channel funnels. settembre 2012 - dicembre 2017 (5 anni 3 mesi)

CTA - International Agency (European Union - Africa, Caribbean, Pacific Countries)

Information Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) Management of digitalisation processes in agribusiness, food-security, participatory GIS mapping and environmental conservation. Coordinated with partner organisations, such as: governments (European Commission; Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Secretariat; Mali); international agencies (IUCN, FAO, IPACC, IIED), NGOs (OLPC, Conservation International), telcom (Nokia). ? Conducted research and stakeholders analysis for multi-million programmes and pilot projects. ? Upskilled literacy of staff in data-driven decision making tools, with internal workshops. ? Reviewed users’ needs and tech requirements for corporate web platforms; intranet (MS Sharepoint); followed up with Terms of References and selection of tech providers. marzo 2008 - marzo 2011 (3 anni )

ProAgria - Rural Extension Services

Field Researcher / Governance and Sustainability Developed econometrics for circular economy and prosumer supply of renewable energy. ? Quantified optimal clustering in farm coops for self-production and consumption of bio-energy from bio-masses. maggio 2007 - giugno 2007 (1 mese)

Assomiglia - Boutique Digital Agency

Freelancer, Digital Media Worked with clients such as Piaggio AeroIndustries (Luxury & Aerospace). ? Winner, best brand-identity at nationwide contest run by a company generating sales of 100m USD. luglio 2003 - dicembre 2005 (2 anni 5 mesi)

Educazione

Storytelling

EdX Storytelling and Communication. 2020 - 2020

Blockchain

Udemy Blockchain based business modelling. 2019 - 2019

Machine Learning

Coursera Machine Learning, Data science 2018 - 2018

Negotiation techniques

Italian Confederation Entrepreneurship & Commerce (ASCOM Spa) Training on Negotiation techniques - at Italian Confederation Entrepreneurship & Commerce - Ascom Servizi S.p.A. 2016 - 2016

Master in Complex Actions

SISSA innovation management 2013 - 2013

International Development

University of Padova Sustainability, economics, international relationship, anthropology, social research 2004 - 2007

Multimedia design Diploma (3 years)

Istituto Palladio UX, UI, color theory, branding, multimedia design, marketing strategies. 2000 - 2003

Lingue

Francese
Basic
Inglese
Madrelingua o bilingue
Italiano
Madrelingua o bilingue
Portoghese
Conversazionale
Spagnolo
Basic

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