Giacomo Marini

Marini is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Noventi Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based, technology venture capital firm and Chairman of Marini Investments, a private investment company. 

In 1981, Marini co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI). He was with the company until 1992 as a director and member of the management team launching Logitech and driving it to become a world leader in computer peripheral devices. He served most recently as Executive VP, Chief Operating Officer. Earlier, he was Executive Vice President, Engineering and Operations; and Vice President of Engineering.

Prior to Logitech, he held technical and managerial positions with Olivetti and IBM. Giacomo is also Chairman of TES Automation, Luxenti, Neato Robotics and Windspire Energy and a director of Aurora Algae, Ecrio,  Minerva Networks and PC-TEL (Nasdaq: PCTI).

Previously, he was Chairman of Teknema, an Internet appliances company and Silicon Valley Advisor for CDB Web Tech, a venture capital fund of funds.

He holds a Laurea Degree, cum laude, in Computer Science from the University of Pisa, Italy.