About us
Liquida staff
Andrea Santagata
CEO
Head of Marketing for the leading Italian portal Virglio.it from 2005 to 2007. He gained his professional experience working on some important Italian internet projects as Giallo.it and Libero. He co-founded Splinder, the first Italian blogging platform. Today he is the Managing Director of Rgb and Sitonline and Head of Marketing for Banzai Group.
Fabio Cabula
Products and Marketing
He is one of the co-founders of Splinder. After working in the marketing department for Libero and Virgilio he launched Sitonline - the Italy-based leading website publishing platform - in 2003. Today he manages Liquida.
Paolo Ruscitti
Chief Technology Officer
In charge of Application Development for Matrix from 2005. He gained experience working for Virgilio.it in the sectors of Search, Shopping and Finance. From 2008 he is head of technology for Rgb and Sitonline.
Tech Staff
Pio Clemente
Enterprise Search Practice Lead
Previous experience in the search group of Virgilio, ElsgDatamat and Sogei where he developed many web applications.
Roberto Innocenti
Backoffice Specialist & Developer
He's been a programmer since 1991 and is specialized in management and processing of data flows.
Massimo Carro
Backend Developer data base administrator
From 2004 to 2007 he worked for Tuttogratis and for Tecnozoom.
Cristian Cascetta
Quality Assurance Director
He focuses on product development, technology innovation and improvement in the industrial sector.
Mauro Di Lalla
Portal Specialist & Developer
He worked for Matrix to develop the portal Virgilio and for Quanthink where he developed several web applications.
Leonardo Foderaro
Advanced Web Solutions Developer
He's been a programmer since 1991 and has previous experience at VR multimedia and other companies.
Vitalie Scurtu
Natural Language Processing
After a master in Human Language Technology at the Università Degli Studi Di Trento he took part in research on natural language.
Roberto La Rocca
Software Engineer - Consultant
He worked for Virgilio and Quanthink from 1991 and is a co-founder of Parallela S.r.l.
Design
Samuele Grimandi
Art director
He worked for web portals and agencies in Bologna and Milan and entered Banzai in 2008.
Edoardo Panella
User Interface Designer & Brand - Consultant
Co-founded Parallela S.r.l. in 2008, a company specialized in Rich Internet Application.
Giancarlo Gerbaz
Web developer
He started in Sports.com in 2000 and then he moved to Matrix to improve the frontend of Virgilio.it.
Editorial Staff
Gabriele Lunati
Head of Content
Journalist and blogger his interests focus on new media, web and digital future. He published biographies, manuals and writes for tv.
Andrea Valentini
Web Editor
He writes screenplays and teaches drama. As an experienced blogger he deals with journalism, non-fiction and music.
Andrea Panzalis
Customer Care
Great expert in sports, video games and new technologies. He joined Liquida one year ago.
Ludovica Pellicioli
Web Editor
Majored in Sociology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. She focuses on international journalism.
Annarita Ficco
Community Manager
Graduated in Business Economics at the Università Bocconi in Milan. She is an expert of social networks and new media communication.
Rebecca Treves
Web Editor
After a degree in Sociology she studied New Journalism and Copy Editing. She speaks English, Spanish and a little bit of Hebrew.
Administration
Roberta Brambilla
Corporate Manager
She has a degree in Political Science (Università Cattolica di Milano) and a post-graduate degree in Corporate Management (Fondazione IDI). She has matured several years of experience in corporate management.
Liquida's Mission
What is Liquida
- The first Italian User-Generated-Content based news portal.
- Liquida adds value to contents provided by the blogosphere.
- Liquida brings out the best of the blogosphere.
- Liquida enables global bloggers to give exposure and visibility to their ideas, in a free-speech, strong reputation and higly reliable technological environment.
- Liquida is a place to exchange contents.
- Liquida is a democratic, innovative, transparent and meritocratic portal.
Liquida: Goals and reason why
- Liquida's proprietary algorithm selects and organizes a great mass of user-generated-content to bring out the most relevant and high quality posts.
- Liquida gives visibility to high quality UGC, facilitating access to fresh and indipendent information for a vast internet user base.
- Liquida offers a new informational and entertaining user experience with a strong focus on content quality and a vertical approach to user-generated-content.
- Liquida is a new actor in content value chain, an indipendent alternative to traditional editors, focused on a respectful relation with bloggers and users.
Why the name Liquida?
- Digital content is often liquid, therefore mobile, accessible to a variety of people in a variety of contexts.
- Digital contents can be mixed to become something different, thus changing form, colour and taste.
- Liquida aims to be a transparent and fresh environment, just like water.
- Digital content brings nutrition, helps ideas grow, it moves and changes and they has no limits.
With its nearly 7.4 million unique user base, Banzai is one of the most important italian players on the Web, along with Telecom Italia, Wind and RCS (Audiweb-Nielsen Online data in May 2009). Banzai aggregates some of the most promising Italian internet projects, integrating expertise and talents of the internet world into a partnership that allows reciprocal improvement and boosts their business potential.
