Cosimo Palmisano

Background

About Cosimo Palmisano

20+ years results-focused entrepreneur with extensive experience coordinating operations in innovative manner to drive revenue generation and business growth in international markets. Demonstrated capacity to leverage proven leadership strategies to supervise diverse, internationally dispersed teams in fast-paced environments. Articulate communicator with ability to analyze, interpret, and convey complex concepts to stakeholders and investors across all levels of business in excellent oral, as well as written English. Track record of scaling- new digital ventures up and nurturing strategic partnerships to enable development of long-term business opportunities. Possess strong entrepreneurial mindset, with proven experience in collaborating with global investors and partners. Cosimo is a Telecommunication Engineer and an expert in ML/AI for Customer Relationship Management and Industrial IoT, with more than 15 years experience in applying predictive statistical models on big data. In March 2011, Cosimo founded his first start-up in the Social CRM space called Ecce Customer. In April 2011, Ecce acquired its first 3 customers (Alpitour, Telecom, Unicef). The Ecce business idea led to a grant from the Fulbright Commission in 2009. The grant allowed Cosimo to spend 9 months in Silicon Valley (California) to attend Tech Entrepreneurship courses at Stanford, Berkeley, and Santa Clara University, pitching the Ecce business plan to investors and potential partners, and finally becoming one of the first hires of Decisyon in the United States. The TR35 Journal from MIT (Boston) in 2010 selected Ecce as one of the 10 most innovative ideas in Italy, and in 2011 Ecce was given a prize by the ItaliaCamp foundation as “10 idee per l’Italia”. Cosimo received his PhD in Industrial Management Engineering at the Polytechnic of Bari (Italy) and was a Visiting Scholar at the Stern School of Business, New York University. The main research topic was about Contextual Marketing, Data Mining, and Contextual Recommender Systems. After he received his PhD, he became Senior Business Analyst at the Customer Intelligence department of FIAT Group Automobiles. Cosimo supports as advisor, public and private Venture Capital investors.