*QUI have contributed to NEWTON Project until 31st August 2018
With a turnover of over 600 million euro, about 1,000 employees and co-workers, 7,000 organisations customers, 150,000 affiliated businesses, 27,000 points of sale participating in loyalty programmes, 15 million electronic cards for Loyalty Programmes, over 15,000 managed POS systems, about 100 million yearly issued vouchers and about 1 million prepaid cards distributed for a global 20 million users of its services nationwide, QUI! Group is the first all-Italian Company leader in the national market of Service Vouchers (Meal Voucher, Gift Voucher, Discount Coupons, Gasoline Coupons, Welfare and Social Voucher, Mobility Voucher ext..), Loyalty and Rewarding Programs, Couponing, Networks management, Electronic and Mobile Payments, Digital Value Added Services.
QUI! Group offers Welfare Services aimed to augment the motivation and the well-being of the employees, their families, citizens in general, simplifying their work and their private lives, through advanced and personalized solutions able to increase performances and save costs. Its own proprietary multi-channel and multi-service data-driven technology Platform ensures service customization and a high level of security for the acquiring and processing of the transactions and for the exchange and protection of managed data.
QUI! Group gained experiences and competencies in rewarding system modelling, gamification and digital engagement methodologies, contextual profiling and personalization techniques which enable the development of new value-added services in various application contexts, such as Digital School/e-Learning, Digital Welfare, Smart Retail, Digital Tourism, Culture heritage enhancement etc.
Due to that, it has been strongly involving in various Information Technology R&D funded projects, developed through its Research Labs and ICT units operating in Genoa, Rome and Naples, in co-operation with prestigious national and international research partners such as Poste Italiane, University of Salerno, University of Trento, Polytechnic of Turin, University of Genoa etc.
Fabio Di Salvadore
Head of Group Project Financing and Grants
Degree in Business Administration, he practiced various business experiences for private enterprises mainly active in Logistics services, Training and Management Consulting sectors, in Italy and abroad, since 1992, holding different responsibilities in Business Planning, Internationalization, Marketing. Senior Manager at QUI! Group since 2004, he held different appointments in company direction and management, focusing on objectives as strategic and economic planning, business process re-engineering, change management, organization efficiency, business and services development, start-ups. Since 2008 he supported Group CTO in managing different ICT company units and digital services development and, since 2009, he coordinates the management of Group special projects concerning Innovation, Industrial Research and Experimental Development co-funded under Regional, National and European Programmes, in partnership with widely known Universities, Industrial and Service Companies in Italy and at an international level.
Antonio De Donato
Head of Architectures, Data Management, Business Process Management & Security
At QUI! Group his main objective is to drive the Company’s IT through an efficient, structured and agile process of innovation and evolution of both business processes and technologies, allowing the Company to go Digital and Secure with their core business. He has 9 years of experience designing and implementing distributed system architectures, impacting different industries and standards: from high-speed railway systems to payments and retail services. He has traceable experience in Italian research projects (ASSETTI, TITAN), co-funded under National Operational Programmes – PON, where he was also author and speaker. He holds both M.Sc. and B.Sc. Cum Laude in Computer Science Engineering from the Second University of Naples (SUN), Italy.
Giuseppe Guarino
Researcher
He has PhD in Computer Science and Information Engineering and works as Researcher at QUI! Group in e-Learning, User Profiling, Knowledge Representation and Semantic Web technologies areas. He holds both M.Sc. and B.Sc. “cum laude” in Computer Science at University of Salerno, Italy. He worked as Reaserch Fellow at same University and as Researcher at Centre for Research in Pure and Applied Mathematics (CRMPA). He has over eight years of traceable research experience on various research and development projects under Sixth and Seventh European Community Framework Programme, National Operational Programme (PON) and Regional Operational Programme (POR). He was also Teaching Assistant and Technical Assistant at Dept. of Human, Philosophical and Training Science (DISUFF) of University of Salerno. He is Academic Member of ATINER – Athens Institute for Education and Research, Journal Reviewer and he was a Program Committee Member of Fifth and Sixth Workshop on Adaptive Learning via Interactive, Collaborative and Emotional approaches (ALICE). He is also author of some scientific papers in the e-Learning, storytelling, cultural heritage and knowledge representation areas.