Prior to Five Seasons Ventures, Giancarlo spent 20+ years at leading pasta and bakery goods Barilla, covering various roles from Quality Assurance/Food Safety to Research & Development across several product categories in Italy and internationally. In the area of Open Innovation, he led various collaborative projects with research institutes, enterprises and start-ups worldwide, also providing valuable mentorship to food accelerators and incubation programmes to the likes of Startupbootcamp-FoodTech, MassChallenge, H-Farm, Future Food Accelerator.