Massimo Ciociola - Bio

Massimo (32) is an entrepreneur, technologist, and social music addict. He’s founder and CEO of  musiXmatch an exciting startup focusing on combining the power of music and meta-data creating the Largest Lyrics Official Data Base in the world.

Before launching musiXmatch, he served as VP Mobile Services at DADA spa (Da.mi) and previously as CEO Iberia & Latin America . Joining in 2000, Massimo helped transition and develop DADA (formerly an ISP) into the leading mobile web media company launching operations in several countries like Spain, Portugal, South Africa, India, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil and he  contribuited to the JV with Sony Music And Dada Inc. in US.

Massimo’s skills are business dev, product & business strategy and social relationship . He was a first mover on the mobile market launching in 1999 first premium “ringtones” in Europe and US, which contributed to + 450 mln € to Dada’s Revenues in 10 years. In addition to overall company direction, Massimo and his team were responsible for building Dada’s product market strategy, developer relations, marketing communications, + company’s content & technology partnerships. Broadcast and Online Appearances/Mentions: Wired, Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Billboard, Elmundo, Folha di Sao Paolo, Globo, Tele 5, Corriere della Sera. Frequent Speaking Engagements: MEF, CTIA Wireless, IdateForum, , MIDEMnet, Mobile World Congress , Evento Blog Sevilla

Prior to DADA, Massimo founded Wireless Solutions spa  then bought by Dada in 2003. Wireless Solutions was a leading mobile apps player licensing technology and content to the most important publishers like Disney, BBC, RCS, FOX, Gameloft, and building platform like Odigo IM Sms Gateway or UMTS mobile deck for several mobile oeprators like Vodafone, Telecom Italia, Telefonica.

Today Massimo is 300% focused on  his new startup MusixMatch