Summary
Luca Olivari is a hands-on go-to-market and general management executive with over a decade leading cloud, database and modern applications sales across EMEA, currently serving as EMEA Vice President, Cloud at Akamai. He has repeatedly scaled teams and product adoption at market leaders including AWS, Nutanix and MongoDB, and has steered fast-growing database vendors like ArangoDB and OrientDB as president and advisor. Luca blends deep commercial acumen with a passion for data, analytics and marketing, translating technical capabilities into repeatable revenue models and partner ecosystems. His career shows a pattern of turning database and cloud innovations into enterprise traction across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. He also mentors founders and has advised on AI- and data-driven product turnarounds, reflecting a tendency to pair strategic vision with operational execution. Based in the UK, he is known for overachieving targets while building cross-functional teams that scale internationally.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Executive Education Business Leadership Communication, Executive Education Business Leadership Communication at MIP Politecnico di Milano
Alchemy University
Post-Diploma Telecommunication Complex Systems, Post-Diploma Telecommunication Complex Systems at ENAIP
Bachelor's Degree Business Marketing Communication, Bachelor's Degree Business Marketing Communication at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
Master of Business Administration - MBA Economics, Master of Business Administration - MBA Economics at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University
Diploma Information Technology Telecommunication Electronic, Diploma Information Technology Telecommunication Electronic at ITIS G.Marconi
Italian, English, Spanish, Chinese