Curriculum vitae
Carmine Noviello
Technology, product and operations leader
Senior director with more than 20 years of experience across ICT and electronics, spanning R&D, product innovation, operations, supply chain, procurement and international business development.

Profile
Senior director with more than 20 years of experience across ICT and electronics, spanning R&D, product innovation, operations, supply chain, procurement and international business development.
I build teams and operating models around complex technology products. My work today sits at the intersection of digital identity, PKI, authentication, electronic signatures and business growth.
Experience
Namirial Group
Naples · Valencia · Hangzhou
Group Business Unit Director
2023–present
Lead the SMB Signature & PKI Hardware business unit within an international ICT group of more than 1,400 people, combining digital-signature platforms for small and medium-sized businesses and professionals with hardware and software solutions for secure digital identity.
- Oversee digital-signature platforms for SMBs and professionals, together with tokens, smart cards, device drivers, PKCS #11 middleware and signing applications across desktop and mobile platforms.
- Lead post-M&A product-synergy initiatives across the group: align portfolios and roadmaps, identify overlaps and complementary capabilities, define consolidation and reuse opportunities, and coordinate their evolution into a coherent offering.
- Global certification and compliance responsibilities, including the eIDAS regulatory framework.
Bit4id
Naples · Barcelona · Hangzhou
Board Member
2023–present
Provide strategic oversight and support the company’s alignment with Namirial Group’s international growth strategy in digital identity, security and PKI.
Business Unit Manager
2019–2022
- Held full responsibility for a business unit with more than €11M in consolidated revenue and approximately €5M in operating expenditure.
- Increased revenue by €4M and EBITDA by €1M, while doubling the APAC export share.
- Led a distributed team of 30 people across Italy, Spain, Peru and India, covering R&D, production, procurement and sales.
- Introduced a new organizational model, KPIs, management-by-objectives and business-control tools.
Senior R&D and Operations Manager
2017–2018
- Redesigned the supply-chain process, reducing product costs by 20% and increasing annual EBIT by more than €800K.
- Qualified manufacturing partners in China and developed international supplier relationships.
- Increased production to more than two million units per year and improved on-time delivery by over 70%.
- Led new hardware design and bill-of-material optimization, reducing investment and engineering overhead.
Consultant
2016–2017
- Built a team of ten engineers and buyers and established a new procurement and production model in China.
- Managed development and manufacturing of the DigitalDNA Bluetooth security token, delivering 600,000 units in six months.
AirQ Networks
Naples, Italy
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder
2010–2016
Co-founded a technology startup focused on wireless sensors and home-automation systems.
Institute of Cybernetics E Caianiello · CNR
Naples, Italy
Researcher
2004–2010
Developed web-based and distributed systems at the Italian National Research Council.