Carlo d’Asaro Biondo

Carlo d’Asaro Biondo
President, Southern and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa Operations,
Google

Carlo d’Asaro Biondo has managed Google’s fast growing Southern, Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa business since September 2009.

Before joining Google, Carlo occupied a series of management positions, driving turnarounds at top Internet, media and telecom companies.

He began his career as a consultant for KPMG and 12 years later he become the consulting group’s Chief Executive Officer in France.   He was also a member of a global team that developed the company’s internet consulting services.

At the end of 2001, he joined Unisys as Vice President and General Manager for communications and media businesses.

In February 2004, he joined AOL Europe as Senior Vice President for telecommunications. Five months later, he was appointed CEO of AOL France and three years later became President of AOL Europe. He steered the company’s transition away from dial-up to broad-band Internet and towards an advertising sales-driven business model, implementing a complex repositioning, restructuring and divestiture program.

Carlo moved to Lagardere Active Media in the beginning of 2007 as CEO for International Operations. In this position, he rationalized and streamlined the global activities of the Hachette’s press, radio and television businesses.

Carlo holds dual French and Italian nationalities. He was educated in Italy and lives in Paris with his wife, Nathalie.  He was born in 1965 and has three children.