Gabriele Garavini is a seasoned executive, innovation leader, board member, and coach known for his expertise in new technologies, business development strategies, innovation, and venturing. He has 15+ years of experience working in highly dynamic and uncertain international businesses, designing, launching, and growing new businesses and organizations from vision to scaling. His work spans across different business domains and technologies such as IoT, AI, data analytics, SaaS, smart mobility, digital experience, Fintech, always with the same relentless focus on understanding customer needs and developing business models to foster sustainable growth.

Gabriele is a customer-focused executive who strongly believes in group genius, breaking internal barriers and collaborating with customers and users to identify new market opportunities, drive ideas from seeds to scale, discover unmet needs, design excellent experiences, products & services, build operations and organizations to sustain innovation and growth. He holds care and respect for customers and colleagues at the top of his values, is energetic, analytical, creative, always learning, and never stops being curious.

Gabriele's motto is that only great teams make ideas great. His focus is designing, developing and scaling innovative businesses with a positive global impact. He has held various positions in different organizations such as Senior Innovation Leader at Scania Group, Founding Partner at Next Agents, Venture Partner & Senior Advisor at Antler, Innovation Management Mentor & Coach at Innovationsledarna, Board Member at ihopa.com, Principal & CEO at 99aaLab Consulting, Startup Coach at Baltic Sandbox, and much more. Gabriele has a Ph.D. in Physics from Stockholm University, and he studied Executive Management Program at Yale School of Management.