Founder & CEO, FacilityLive

Gianpiero Lotito is the co-founder, with Mariuccia Teroni, of FacilityLive, a start-up that is launching a new generation search engine on the international market. FacilityLive has patents in 43 countries, including the USA (attained with Google as “prior art”), Europe, Japan and Israel. Nigel Kendall, technology editor at The Times, described it as “a technology that could change everything online”. FacilityLive is the Gartner Cool Vendor 2014 for CRM Customer Service and Support and is on the Global Software Vendors for Gartner Enterprise Search list. A technologist, with a music career behind him, Gianpiero has been working on innovative projects in the world of publishing and on applied content technologies for over 20 years. He has taught Multimedia Publishing at the University of Milan and has written books and articles about technology for Bruno Mondadori and Kataweb-L’Espresso, among others. Gianpiero is an Anitc Ambassador for the “E-skills for Jobs 2014” project that is part of the European Commission’s Grand Coalition for digital jobs.