Leadership

Cosimo Palmisano

Cosimo Palmisano is Vice President of Business Development & Marketing at Decisyon. Cosimo is a Telecommunication Engineer and an expert in ML, AI and Customer Relationship Management, with more than 15 years of experience in applying predictive statistical models on big data.

As Vice President of Business Development & Marketing, Cosimo works to improve Decisyon’s market position and achieve financial growth in the emerging digital industrial sector. He supports long-term organizational strategic goals, builds key partners relationships, identifies business opportunities, and maintains extensive knowledge of current market conditions. Cosimo works with the internal Decisyon team, marketing staff, and other managers to increase sales opportunities and maximize revenues. He is responsible for managing Decisyon’s existing partners portfolio that includes companies like GE, Microsoft and AWS.

As Decisyon’s VP of Product Management Cosimo led product management and business development for the Decisyon App Composer for Industrial IoT with a strong focus on the EMEA market.
Cosimo is an award-winning entrepreneur whose startup in the Social CRM space (Ecce Customer) received a grant from the Fulbright Commission. In 2010 the TR35 Journal from MIT (Boston) 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 has been published in numerous international scientific publications and books on these topics. In 2010, Cosimo achieved Social CRM professional certification in London from Paul Greenberg.

Giampiero Rufini

Giampiero Rufini is Vice President of Product Management for Decisyon. Giampiero has worked in many capacities at Decisyon and has led numerous initiatives for pharmaceutical customers, merging lean production principles — such as value creation, pull, flow, goal alignment and continuous improvement — with the Decisyon platform and its advanced technologies such as usability, control, integration and collaboration.

Giampiero has also been working to support businesses in their use of the Decisyon platform. Through his efforts, Giampiero has helped many industrial customers improve plant operations and gain a greater level of efficiency and execution. In 2007, Giampiero became the Quality Manager for Decisyon, leading the company successfully through the ISO 9001:2008 certification process, and promoting a continuous improvement culture throughout the company.

Giampiero started his career in 1998 in computer system validation and has worked in production area support and system development for pharmaceutical companies.

Maurizio Hadley

Maurizio Hadley is Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing and GM of Decisyon Italy. Maurizio brings more than 20 years of experience in IT consulting and in launching new technologies in the BI, CPM, and Social CRM markets. He has led sales development and market expansion of Decisyon Italy and has overseen and orchestrated the development of sales operations for ECCE, Decisyon’s social CRM solution.

In the last 10 years, Maurizio’s efforts have been focused around expanding and launching emerging technologies and transforming them into corporate solutions for Decisyon’s global expansion. He is uniquely able to position technologies in emerging and complex markets at the CXO level, with a focus on large corporations. Maurizio is passionate about helping CXOs understand the added value generated by Decisyon’s solutions in positioning them to achieve their corporate goals and targets.

Max Pane

Max Pane is Chief Technology Officer of Decisyon. One of Decisyon’s co-founders, Max has been with the company for more than 11 years and brings over 20 years of software and infrastructure experience to our team.

A digital technology visionary, Max’ responsibilities are anchored in technology, product architecture, performance and security including software design & quality, infrastructure optimization and DevOps. He leads Decisyon’s engineering teams and Professional Services and works directly with our clients, sales team and technology partners to ensure that our products deliver world-class performance, compliance, automation and security Decisyon’s clients deserve.

Max has been a key figure for Decisyon in large-scale deployments for a number of our marquee clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Wyeth, Pfizer, Adeo and GE. He was an early adopter of cloud PaaS (platform as a service) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service) providers such as AWS, PCF and OpenStack and led the effort to create Decisyon’s cloud native platform, Decisyon App Composer (DAC) for Predix.

Prior to Decisyon, Max worked with ISP, networking and software development companies in diverse verticals such as manufacturing, marketing, CRM and data analytics.

Alex Aminian

Alex Aminian is President & CEO and Chairman of Decisyon. Under Alex’s leadership, Decisyon has pursued innovative approaches to accommodate the speed of technological change in today’s global marketplace, and has positioned Decisyon to experience new levels of achievement in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) space, leveraging direct sales and new partnership opportunities. Under Alex’s leadership, Decisyon has penetrated the Manufacturing, Healthcare, CPG, Energy, Aviation and Supply Chain verticals, and reinforced customer value by shepherding Decisyon into partnerships with key mega vendors in the IIoT space such as HP, GE, Microsoft, AWS and SAS.

Throughout his career, Alex has grown businesses organically and through strategic M&A’s focusing on their long-term success by strengthening client relationships, building top-performing teams, and architecting and commercializing scalable enterprise solutions. Prior to Decisyon, Alex served as President and CEO of DAVID Corporation, an enterprise and SaaS software solutions provider for the Insurance and Risk Management market. During his eight-year tenure there, he grew revenue six-fold and profit by over 300%. His 25+ years of diverse software and business experience includes leading and operating both high-tech startups and established data-driven corporations such as Oracle/Hyperion, Intergraph, Priceline and LexisNexis/Insurity.

Alex earned an undergraduate degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Utah State University, the MS in Civil Engineering from Louisiana State University, and completed Finance and Marketing Executive courses at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School.

Francesco Carbonera

Francesco Carbonera is Vice President of Customer Success. He brings more than 20 years of experience with high-tech companies and expertise in consulting, technology, finance, and client care. Francesco has overall responsibility for leading and nurturing Decisyon’s client relationships including managing the service operations, global account management, and day-to-day tactical client engagement. He also oversees all aspects of client care programs, from onboarding and training to management of programs after launch. Francesco joined Decisyon in 2010 leading the Client Consulting team. He started his career in corporate finance where he held a number of progressively senior positions, from Financial Manager in a small production company to Finance and Controller position for an Italian electronics industry group. Francesco has a significant experience and knowledge in consulting services. He was a Consultancy Director at a System Integration Services company where he led several planning projects for very large organizations. Francesco received his undergraduate degree in Business and Economics from Istituto Universitario di Bergamo in Italy and his MBA Degree from San Francisco State University with an emphasis in Finance.

Franco Petrucci

Franco Petrucci is Founder & Chief Evangelist at Decisyon. He founded Decisyon in 2005 and served as CEO until October 2012. After graduation, Franco founded his first company (FP) and then a second one (Unyversys) in 2001, which grew to a size of 15 employees. While he was building these two companies, Franco was also involved in large scale projects with a number of companies, including Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Wyeth, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Trelleborg. His work covered all company departments: production, planning, purchasing, shipping, sales, finance, quality control, and quality assurance. Franco graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza, with a degree in Electronics Engineering. While at the university, he held freelance positions as a programmer, analyst, system administrator, process consultant, and project manager on complex multinational projects.

Roberto Capponi

Roberto Capponi is Vice President of Program Management. Roberto joined Decisyon in 2005 and manages the delivery of Decisyon-built projects—coordinating the activities of internal consultant teams, contractors, and partners. He also manages training and support services, interacting with departments across the company, and collaborating closely with sales. He began working in the software industry in 1982 with Proges Coop, a software house in Rome whose primary business was developing systems for government institutions. In 1985, Roberto joined pharmaceutical giant Janssen Italy where he worked for 16 years managing numerous information technology projects. His last position at Janssen was manager of Computer Integrated Manufacturing for their Materials Handling System—an automated warehouse for goods stocking and handling to-and-from plant departments. Prior to joining Decisyon, Roberto worked for Unyversys as international Business Intelligence Project Leader, implementing projects in Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, and Turkey.

Michael Wilson

Michael Wilson is Vice President of Sales and Business Development. Michael has over 30 years of sales, marketing and business development experience, focusing on the Internet of Things for the last 10 years. Over the course of his career, Michael has developed and implemented innovative global market, channel and customer engagement and development strategies that cover large enterprise, institutional customers and global channel partnerships. Prior to Decisyon, Michael led the Business Development and Sales teams at WiSilica, Veniam, Mavenir, Infineon, Millmetrix Broadband Networks and 3Com/USRobotics. Michael brings a diversified knowledge base in end devices, sensors, network infrastructure, cloud services and applications, spanning the core aspects of the Internet of Things. Michael earned his undergraduate degree in Marketing from the Ohio State University College of Business.

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