Giacomo Marini

Who is Giacomo Marini?

Giacomo Marini is founder and Managing Director at Noventi, an early-stage technology venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley.

In 1981, Marini co-founded Logitech with Daniel Borel and Pierluigi Zappacosta. 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-input 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.

From 1993 to 1995 Marini was President and CEO of No Hands Software. No Hands Software created one of the first electronic publishing software, in the style of, and competitive to Adobe Acrobat. From 1998 to 1999, Marini served as interim Chief Executive Officer of FutureTel, a digital video encoders company.

Marini is Chairman of Marini Investments, Neato Robotics, Velomat and a director of Aurora Algae, Ecrio, Lumenergi, Minerva Networks and PCTEL. Previously, he was Chairman of Teknema, an Internet appliances company and Silicon Valley Advisor for CDB Web Tech, a venture capital fund of funds.