Marcello Mari
Marcello Mari is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at SingularityDAO, a DeFi protocol designed to maximize alpha generation regardless of market trend or condition. Marcello is Director of Communications and member of the founding team at SingularityNET, a decentralized, open-source marketplace for AI algorithms. Previously, he was Head of Public Relations at SingularityNET, responsible for spearheading a campaign that Wired called the biggest tech hype event of the year. Earlier in his career, he was the Market lead in Italy for the GlobalWebIndex, a Member of the Social Media Council for IAB UK, and a Digital Marketing Project Manager for Kaplan International English. Marcello is twice a TEDx speaker, and was a contributor to TechCrunch, Wired and The Guardian, following a career in marketing and PR across a number of tech start-ups in London. Marcello is behind the Sophia NFT artwork drop, which has already sold one digital artwork for nearly $700,000.
Marcello Mari Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer
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Mentor, Europe Accelerator
Academic History
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Bachelor of Arts, Telecommunications
Marcello leads a team of 35 and SingularityDAO is widely recognised as one of the most successful projects in the DeFi space, pioneering AI for DeFi.
SingularityDAO is an independent project incubated by SingulatedNET that brings DeFi and AI together.
It aims to foster growth of the decentralized networks that represent today's most promising tech and social innovations.
The company aims to bring massive liquidity to low cap market tokens and make it easy to get exposure to the crypto economy.
EARLY CAREER AND EXPERTISE
As Head of PR at SingularityNET, he secured press coverage in outlets including The New York Times and CNN.
He was a Digital Account Manager at Seven, Head of Marketing and Communications at iStarter, and Editorial Director at eFanswer.
Previously, he was a Documentary Filmmaker for the project WiredNomads and Advisor to NaPoleonX.
In 2018, he joined Tatatu, a decentralized platform for social entertainment, as their Head of Public Relations.
Throughout his career, Marcello’s expertise and knowledge for exponential technologies is widely recognized.
MEDIA AND APPEARANCE
Marcello is a regular fixture on the stage at conferences such as TED and the AIBC conference.
He contributed to a number of applications including The Guardian, TechEconomy, TechCrunch, StartupItalia and Wired Magazine.
He has also appeared as a guest on Real Vision.