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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.

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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.