Raffaele Gigantino is actually the Country Manager at Google Cloud Italy. Raffaele has over 20 years’ experience spanning many successful global IT companies. He was most recently the Managing Director & Country Manager of Vmware By Broadcom , previously a Solution Sales Director for Data and Artificial Intelligence - Cloud & Enterprise in Microsoft Western Europe Headquarter, leading a team of more than 150 solution sales in twelve subsidiaries. Previously, Raffaele was Sales Director for Central Government and Public Safety National Security at Microsoft. He started his career in Cisco as pre/sales engineer moving soon as account manager working mainly with Telco.

Very flexible and dynamic, Raffaele is an inspirational leader and often a transformation agent inside complex organizations. He has excellent interpersonal skills and developed capabilities to deal with high-level Executives at customer and partners side and developed skills to operate at different layers in the client and in the company hierarchy. In the 2020 list of TOP 100 Italian influential leaders of Forbes. He has a Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salerno.