Salvatore Palella

Salvatore Palella
Personal details
Born Salvatore Palella
(1987-09-29) September 29, 1987
Sicily, Italy
Residence New York, New York, U.S.
Alma mater Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Profession Entrepreneur
Website

Salvatore Palella is an Italian-American business executive and entrepreneur. Palella is best known for founding a blockchain based peer-to-peer marketplace for transportation.[1][2]. As of 2013, Palella was the part of the new management that took over S.S.D. Acireale Calcio 1946 football club(), which is part of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, in Italy [3].

Biography

Early Life

Palella grew up in Sicily and moved to Dublin at the age of 17, getting his first work experience at the popular fast-food franchise McDonald's. He graduated from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, where he began his first company, a vending machine business serving fresh squeezed orange juice called Witamine [4][5]. In 2013, he had distributed more than 50.000 machines between Europe and the Middle East employing over 1000 people. He sold the company for more than $50 million at the age of 24.

In the following years, Salvatore became the youngest owner of a professional soccer team in the world, Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Città di Acireale 1946. He was president of Acireale Calcio from 2012 until 2013.[6] At the age of 25 he started his career in finance and became one of the youngest hedge fund owners in the world, managing $250m out of its headquarters in London.

Career

As of October 16, 2015, a carsharing platform, that allows users to rent out private vehicles controlled by blockchain technology, and ethereum smart contracts between users was founded, also known as Helbiz [7][8][9][10]. The Helbiz cryptocurrency was listed on Coinmarketcap as of April 28th, 2018[11].

Lorenzo Pellegrino, the CEO of Skrill and Neteller has recently joined Helbiz as an advisor in promoting the integration of digital currencies used in Helbiz [12].

Personal Life

As of July 2018, Palella is engaged to American, Sports Illustrated model Samantha Hoopes. Palella proposed to Hoopes in Portofino on the Italian Riviera, where they first met 380 days prior to the proposal [13][14] [15] [16]

References

  1. ↑ Angela Scott-Briggs (2018-02-03). "Interview with Salvatore Palella, Founder of Helbiz". Retrieved 2018-08-12.
  2. ↑ "The Emerging Blockchain + Transportation Intersection". Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  3. ↑ Luca Salvioli (2018-06-27). "Debutta Helbiz, l'Airbnb che mette in affitto la tua auto e funziona con la blockchain". Retrieved 2018-06-29.
  4. ↑ Rossella Gigli (2009-03-30). "Moderno, giovane, dinamico: Witamine e' il brand che l'ortofrutta stava aspettando!". Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  5. ↑ Rossella Gigli (2018-05-16). "Blockchain bringing people closer together". Retrieved 2018-04-21.
  6. ↑ Pablo Sánchez (2013-06-23). "Palella confirma las conversaciones con el Acireale". Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  7. ↑ Matteo Zorzoli (2018-04-28). "Helbiz, l'Airbnb delle auto: si paga in criptovaluta e sfrutta la blockchain". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  8. ↑ Filippo Piva (2018-06-21). "Helbiz, l'app di car sharing per noleggiare la propria auto in criptovalute". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  9. ↑ Lorenzo Longhitano (2018-06-20). "Da dicembre in Italia arriva Helbiz, il car sharing delle auto di proprietà". Retrieved 2018-06-30.
  10. ↑ Federica Florillo (2018-07-05). "Helbiz è l'Airbnb delle auto e conferma che la sharing economy è ancora in crescita". Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  11. ↑ Michael (2018-05-23). "Helbiz (HBZ) crypto and will it disrupt the car sharing sector?". Retrieved 2018-06-14.
  12. ↑ Lorenzo Pellegrino (2018-02-28). "Lorenzo Pellegrino, CEO of Skrill, NETELLER & Income Access joins Helbiz as an advisor". Retrieved 2018-07-28.
  13. ↑ Karen Birney (2018-07-12). "Model Samantha Hoopes is engaged to boyfriend of one year Salvatore Palella". Retrieved 2018-07-15.
  14. ↑ Esther Lee (2018-07-11). "Sports Illustrated Model Samantha Hoopes Is Engaged to Salvatore Palella". Retrieved 2018-07-18.
  15. ↑ Kelsey Hendrix (2018-07-10). "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Samantha Hoopes Is Engaged!". Retrieved 2018-07-21.
  16. ↑ Whitney Vasquez (2018-07-07). "Samantha Hoopes is Engaged to Italian Entrepreneur". Retrieved 2018-07-26.
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