Matteo Diana

Head of Product - Operations

Matteo Diana
Villalta, Italy

Experience

Oct 2022 - Present
2 years 6 months

Founder

CompeteRealTime

B2B SaaS for dynamic positioning and competitiveness improvement for refurbished electronics resellers

Feb 2022 - Oct 2022
9 months
Milan, Italy

Head of Product - Operations

Everli.com

  • In B2C and B2B2C Marketplace, scaled internationally from 1 to 4 EU markets gig economy supply Acquisition - Activation - Engagement - Retention and Fulfillment for groceries home delivery with AI and traditional tech
  • Boosted yearly GMV/12m customer retention by 20+% via double digit increases in unit-economics, sustainability and quality of service as growth went from sub 0.5 million to multi-million yearly deliveries
  • Scaled team to 3 PMs as the company went from 70 to 300+ employees, mentored colleagues across depts. and delivered several company wide initiatives from origination to pitching to execs to validation/decommissioning
Jun 2021 - Jan 2022
8 months
Milan, Italy

Lead Product Manager

Everli.com

  • Improved by 10% 12m customer retention with value proposition step up, including 0->1 products
  • Hired 1 additional Product Manager and proud to have reduced supply network yearly emissions by >100t CO2
Feb 2020 - May 2021
1 year 4 months
Milan, Italy

Senior Product Manager

Everli.com

  • Slashed supply activation costs by 70% via 10x automation initiatives
  • Increased supply retention by 8% and service level via better fulfillment and gig workers earnings potential
Mar 2019 - Present
6 years 1 month

Pro Bono Product Management Consulting

Helping founders/C-line of startups aligned with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and product managers alike to grow. Independently and associated with startup accelerators/incubators worldwide (Xpreneurs, Sustainable Ocean Alliance, WERK1)

Sep 2018 - Jan 2020
1 year 5 months
Munich, Germany

Senior Product Manager - Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Fidor Solutions

  • Reporting to CEO, in a 250 employees FinTech which has grown up to 400, delivered product portfolio vision for B2B/B2B2C Banking as a Service with product introductions/decommissions, new partners/business models (SaaS, API) in customer service, fraud analytics, BI, Open Banking, behavioral finance
  • Grew revenues from 0 to 2M+ Eur in a team of 10 via Agile/Scrum and negotiated >2MM Eur commercial deals
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
8 months
Munich, Germany

Co-founder & CTO

Gett.Digital

  • One stop shop AI business travel concierge with travel recommendations and automation of the boring tasks
  • Launched MVP in <5 weeks, gained B2C/B2B users Germany-wide, pitched to investors, established affiliations with travel APIs for revenue share, coded over 4,000 lines of Python (algorithms, artificial intelligence and integrations)
Jan 2016 - Dec 2017
1 year
Munich, Germany

Lead Sensor Fusion and AI Research Engineer

General Electric

  • Lead development of real-time system to assess pilots' fatigue and stress: Patent pend.: M. Diana, L. Stoica, "Individual pilot and fleet flexible schedule management based on performance data", 2017
  • Bayesian AI and sensor fusion exploited for classification of information from noisy, ambiguous and uncertain time-series data from video, inertial, geodata and physiological signals
Jan 2015 - May 2015
5 months
Pordenone, Italy

Pro Bono Consulting

EYE EYE

Delivered imaging algorithms for mass customisation of 3D printed glasses adapting to individual facial features

Mar 2014 - Dec 2016
2 years 10 months
Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Sensor Fusion Research Engineer

General Electric

  • Achieved 7% components cost and 70% prototyping times reductions as agile project leader, of a team of 3, on inertial based attitude estimation stand-by flight system
  • Edison Engineering Development Program: executive mentorship and extensive leadership training in GE's 2 years long flagship technical leadership accelerator
  • Reduced verification efforts by 25% in full software lifecycle for stand-by flight system for military, civil, fixed/rotary wing applications in Agile/Scrum
Nov 2013 - Sep 2015
1 year 11 months
Pisa, Italy

Co-founder & CTO

Spin And Swim

Launched MVP with Italian world-class athletes to make real-time swimming technique evaluation accessible to everyone via waterproof inertial commercial device, cloud based algorithms and accessibility of insights over internet

Summary

In B2C and B2B2C Marketplace, scaled internationally from 1 to 4 EU markets gig economy supply Acquisition - Activation - Engagement - Retention and Fulfillment for groceries home delivery with AI and traditional tech Boosted yearly GMV/12m customer retention by 20+% via double digit increases in unit-economics, sustainability and quality of service as growth went from sub 0.5 million to multi-million yearly deliveries Scaled team to 3 PMs as the company went from 70 to 300+ employees, mentored colleagues across depts. and delivered several company wide initiatives from origination to pitching to execs to validation/decommissioning

Languages

Italian
Native
English
Advanced
French
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced
German
Elementary

Education

Nov 2012 - May 2013

Georgia Institute of Technology

Human Machine Interaction · Atlanta, United States

Nov 2010 - May 2013

Università di Pisa

M.S. · Robotics and Control Systems · Pisa, Italy

Oct 2006 - Mar 2010

Università degli Studi di Trieste

B.S. · Industrial Engineering · Trieste, Italy

Certifications & licenses

Green Belt Lean Six Sigma