Matteo Sarzana

Deliveroo

General Manager Deliveroo Italy & Belgium

Citizen of the world, tireless traveller, lover of communication, creative and team player: this is how Matteo Sarzana defines himself, with a degree in Communication from the IULM in Milan, today at the helm of Deliveroo in Italy, the leading online food delivery platform founded in London in 2013 by William Shu and active in 10 countries. Matteo began his career in 2003, in Milan in Y&R, one of the most important advertising agencies. In 2006 he became team leader of TeamAlfa, dedicated to the Alfa Romeo client, for which he managed communication first in Italy and then on a global level. In 2008, after a period in the United States, he returned to Italy to lead the digital agency startup VML, bringing it from scratch to a team of over 35 people to follow some of the most important Italian companies: Costa Crociere, Barilla, Ford, Microsoft , Artemide, Air One, Vodafone, Danone, SeatPG, Colgate and Acer. After the experience at Singularity University, a study program in Silicon Valley that aims to train the professionals of the future, Matteo decides to dedicate himself to the world of startups and lands as general manager Europe in Zooppa, a startup born within H -Farm that presents itself as an alternative to the traditional way of communicating, drawing on a network of more than 300,000 crowdsourced creatives. Today he is General Manager of Deliveroo Italy & Belgium and President of Assodelivery, the Italian association of the food delivery industry. Author of "App Economy" and keynote speaker at the most important Italian events dealing with topics of technology and innovation.