About Us

Phd in Semiology. Master at Open University.
Specialized on organizational development and innovation: concept, design, development for knowledge management, learning management, community management through social media platforms.
Web 2.0 approach inside the organization: wikies, folksonomy, social networking, communities of practice, user generated content, social network analysis
Internal communication: internal marketing, events, bottom-up systems. He is co-Author with Rosario Sica of “Community Managenent” (Apogeo, 2007)

He started his professional activities in 1969 at SIT Siemens (now Italtel) focused on simulation models for telephone exchange.
 From 1971 to 1976 Erminio worked in Sperry Univac (now Unisys) as project leader for manufacturer companies and public administrations. From 1976 he was engaged in management of BTicino (now Legrand Group) where he was COO and CIO. From 2003 Erminio is the President of the Italian Association “Aused, Associazione Utilizzatori Sistemi e tecnologie dell’Informazione”. From October 2008 is President and Partner of OpenKnowledge.

Systemist, he is in charge of realization of internet infrastructure and application since 1994, year in which – as Technical Director of Agorà Telematica – had realised the first infrastructure for modem connection of private users.

After a degree in Story and Philosophy of Science, Jonathan spent the last 5 years working in different fields of marketing. He has done on-line and off-line monitoring for international brand campaigns such as Nokia and Audi supporting the initiatives of companies, newspapers and sport clubs.
Besides form working for OpenKnowledge he is also continuing a specialization in Information Technology at the Open University.

Management engineer, Daniel focuses on ICT issues by participating in the Executive course of ICT Strategic Management at the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano. He Develops his professional career in BPR and innovation, cultivating projects both in technological (RFID, sensing and automation) and organizational fields (IT Change Management and ICT innovation).
For two years he has worked in applied research, training and advicing at the RFID Research Center of the Politecnico di Milano.

Animated by a strong entrepreneurial spirit, in 2010 worked with a consulting firm based in the UK in the opening of the Italian business unit. In 2011 participates in the creation of a start-up dedicated to technological innovation projects.

Annalisa has a degree in foreign languages and literature and began his career as a translator of technical documents in plant oil. After an internship in the office of the recruitment and selection of personnel she moves in the field of Human Resources, where she acquired a decade of experience, she first worked in recruitment and then in personnel administration. In Open Knowledge holds the position of Office Manager.

In her spare time expresses his creativity in the art of finger food.

Valeria has a professional experience on B2B and B2C strategies developed as product manager in Italy. Her expertise and interests range from marketing in all its form to Commercial BDM (the role she covered for the past 6 years) and Event Management; PR and consulting approach are her key competences. Member of the Board of the International Advertising Association Italy Chapter, she is also involved in leisure activities ranging from membership to organizing events linked to the world of education and training in communication and in updating best practices in marketing and ADV, working with some of excellence in the field of communication in Italy.

A 20 years experience in marketing and communications.
Since 2010 CEO at TheBrandExperience, a consultant company focused on management in outsource of e-commerce platforms and on E-commerce marketing consultancy.
In 2007 at TheBlogTv fine tunes her strategic skills in using digital tools to implement social media marketing campaigns and e corporate/brand 2.0 platforms.
In 2003 establishes TaxiChannel, the first Italian business satellite tv.
From 2001 to 2007 Author and TV Host at La7 (Omnibus) and Rai Utile (Link).
Before manager ADV & PR at Ogilvy, BBDO Group, J.Walter Thompson in Italy, Bolivia e Thailand.
Crazy about cooking, gourmand and kids, Selena has created and launched in 2012 www.ilovefooding.it the first digital mall dedicated to Italian food .

Teaching Communications and Marketing at Università Roma3, Ateneo Impresa, IED Rome and Milan.

In January 2006 establishes Etnocom Etnomktg, the first and still the only Italian marketing and communications consultant company dedicated to the multiethnic marketing, with offices in Rome and Milan. Today Giuseppe is etnocom’s President. Before in the J.Walter Thompson Group, where he started in 1987 as one of the first Italian Strategic Planners, as Managing Director at digital@jwt. Regional account Director Europe at Saatchi&Saatchi and New Business manager at DMB&B. Two times in US: in New York, as Marketing Director at Bulgari Corporation of America and in Los Angeles, as Mktg Consultant at M.O.inc., an Ambrosetti Milan Group company. At Stet Group in Athen, as the Stet Hellas Marketing and Advertising Manager and in Roma as General Manager of the web agency Clipper s.p.a., a Fiat/Stet/DMB&B owned company. Member of the board of the Swisse Foundation Music and Movie producing the Orvieto MusicalCinema Festival. Editorialist about Marketing and Ethics at the free press Metro. Co-author of Welcom Bank (Egea 2010) e Blues Marketing (Baldini Castoldi Dalai 2008).

Giuseppe Albeggiani loves sailing, alpin ski, tennis, but his real passion ever after basketball is his great family.

Graduated from the State University of Milan in Social Sciences for Communication with a final thesis in Philosophy of Language, Marco is now finishing his studies with a postgraduate degree in Marketing and Business Communication.
His humanistic and economic profile, combined with a strong passion for technology, allowed him to join OpenKnowledge, where he’s working on Social Media Marketing.

In his spare time he works on his dissertation on the social dynamics in organizational processes.

Computer science graduate with a dissertation on 3D visualization of medical data, has worked as an architect, designer and developer for social media applications, participating in large-scale integration and implementation projects for social networking platforms, both on the web and on mobile devices.

He has teached business analysis and computergraphics at Politecnico di Milano and at the University of Pavia and writes about music on his own blog, besides collaborating with some Italian musical magazines like zero.eu and frequencies.it.

Valentia studied Graphic Design at IED Rome, she passed through writing experiences, and then she specialized in photography and reportage. Since 1992 collaborates with several agencies of communication between Rome and Milan and since 2006 is responsible for organizing cultural and no-profit events.

For OpenKnwowledge she is the community manager of Lumix Lifestyle Italia. 

Robert is a communications consultant and copywriter who has worked on web-based projects both in Italy and the UK, where he is originally from. A graduate of Oxford University, where he studied English, Robert specializes in researching and writing content that tells engaging stories about people and organisations.
In London he studied Applied Linguistics at Masters level and wrote for uSwitch, a price comparison site, and the Governance Hub, an online resource for trustees supported by a consortium of leading voluntary organisations and the UK government. Robert also teaches Business English and is the founder of the Milan Business English Network.

He has collaborated with Open Knowledge on a number of recent social media projects. 

Professor of Communication Sociology at Milan State University from 1985 to 2001.Graduated in Economics at Bocconi University (Milan), and in Political Sciences at Milan State University. Focus on marketing research activity Qualitative researcher for the most important local or multinational companies and advertising agencies doing business in Italy. He conducted extensive qualitative research in the US, several European countries and Asia (Japan, China, Thailand). In the last few years Joseph developed an original approach to brand storytelling in advertising and websites, He published a recent book, ‘Marketing Narrativo’, i.e., Narrative Marketing (Franco Angeli, Milan, 2011). It’s about how brands can use storytelling in contemporary marketing. The last book following subject: ‘Web Storytelling’. It’s about how you can create brand stories in social media. It has just been published (February 2012).