Gianluca Carrera
VP, Commercial & Strategy Europe
Yahoo! Search Marketing
Gianluca joined Yahoo! Search Marketing in February 2003 as Managing Director of Overture Italy, and in May 2004, was named VP Commercial and Strategy, Europe.
In his current role, Gianluca is responsible for determining and leading the company's strategy and operations for Europe, including business intelligence. This encompasses Search Marketing, and the monetisation of additional products such as Local Search, Mobile Search and the Yahoo! Publisher Network.
An economist and analyst by training, Gianluca has held senior roles as a quantitative analyst with Citibank and more recently with Salomon Brothers, where he headed up the Italian and Greek quantitative analysis and index department. In 2000, he left Salomon to co-found and head up Godado.com, one of Europe's first performance-based marketing companies.
Gianluca reports to Stephen Taylor, Regional Vice President and Managing Director of Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Search Marketing, Europe.
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