Who We Are
Gianluca Neri
Managing & Creative Director
He has collaborated with the satirical weekly “human resistance” publication Cuore and, together with the illustrator Roberto Grassilli went on to found and manage the Clarence web portal, which was subsequently sold to Spray and then passed on to Lycos and Dada. He collaborates with several magazines and directs Macchianera, a multi-author blog. He was a screenwriter for Magnolia’s series Camera Cafè. For the same company, he has led a creative laboratory for the creation of new formats. In May 2005, he appeared in the news for being the blogger who, with the simple copy and paste of a PDF, revealed the “omissis” in the official document issued by the United States following the investigation of the murder of the Italian agent Nicola Calipari. For Rizzoli, he published the novel “The Great Phone Directory of the Earth and Neighboring Planets (Jupiter not included)”. He has developed and hosted several shows for Rai Radio2.
Marco Tosi
General Manager
An internet pioneer in Italy as well as a marketing, business strategy, and traffic acquisition expert. In 1995 he founded I.com, the first company in Italy to offer internet services differing from connectivity. In 1999 I.com was purchased by Icon Medialab AB. Tosi continued to run it for 11 years and became a reference point, in Milan and in Italy for digital agencies. In I.com, he forged the best professionals of the industry, and it is in this context that “Clarence” was founded, one of the most famous Italian portals.
Gigi Mazzeschi
Head of Branded Entertainment
He graduated from Bocconi in Business Economics and he is specialized in Marketing and Communication. In 1997 he was among the italian pioneers in On line Advertising, working for brands like Alitalia, Gatorade, Fiat. In 1999 he co-founded with Gianluca Neri the Clarence web portal, acquired by the Rizzoli group in 2003. He was a partner in the listed internet company DADA. Since 2007 he has been dealing with web marketing, publishing, e-commerce. He founded and collaborate with different start-up. He organizes the Macchianera Internet Awards.
Who We Are Working With
We’ve set up a creative factory made up by the best and most talented writers, professionals and creative minds in Italy. They meet regularly in our offices and have this goal: to help us conceive and produce their dreams: ideas that no one had ever considered before, because they were too innovative, too brave or too irreverent.
And since we are different from all the others (and it’s not a figure of speech), we have inside us a real investigative unit made up by the best lawyers, forensic and computer experts, to help us verify the stories we tell and collect new and unpublished information on current events. Sometimes these information helped to solve criminal cases. It happened. More than once.