About Marco

Marco wears 3 different hats, all interconnected and joint by his passion for sustainability and his overall vision: “A Sustainable and Ethical Planet with 100% renewable energy and sustainable tourism”. As a mentor and startup advisor, Marco has been collaborating with a wide range of international accelerators since 2017 and supports start-ups at different stages of their life cycle. The main areas in which he already supported 100+ start-ups across the globe are: 1. Pitching to investors & other stakeholders, 2. Strategy & decision making, 3. Sustainable business models & execution. He is also an invited speaker at entrepreneurial and coaching events and delivers training packages, other than having contributed to a book on how to build a Tech startup.

In his corporate professional career, through over 15 years of experience mostly within the cleantech and sustainability industries, Marco gained a strong insight about process, project and team management in large companies. His expertise lies at the crossroad between strategy, analytics and operations.

As an entrepreneur, Marco co-founded (and later exited) www.expert-energy.co.uk, a small firm focused on sustainability and energy efficiency consulting services in the UK. More recently, he started the development of a sustainable boutique hotel in Portugal (currently with the aim to start operations in June ’24).

Marco holds an executive MBA from Bayes Business School (with specialisation on business strategy and business models), other than 2 Engineering Master’s Degrees (in Italy and Ireland) and has authored more than 20 between technical and market intelligence reports and scientific publications about renewable energy technologies.