Biography

As a director of Zanichelli Venture, I’m looking for nascent companies that are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products that empower anyone—from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches—to learn and teach better.

Previously, along with a most awesome team of three, I supported senior management at Zanichelli Editore in working out our digital strategy, and I led the creation of a modern software house as a sort of in-house startup in the middle of our 150-year-old textbook publishing business. 

I care about how people teach and learn, how they tackle complex or difficult information, how they get to solve problems together. I study the ways new technologies can help and not hinder them. Education offers a critical testing ground.