Nazzareno Gorni is an entrepreneur with a background in Management Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.
After starting his career in consulting (ICT marketing and CRM), he co-founded a bootstrapped web engineering company that originated two B2B SaaS initiatives: MailUp (multichannel marketing platform, 2004) and Beefree.io (email visual builder, 2014). Under his leadership, MailUp became the leading ESP in Italy. In 2014, MailUp went public on Euronext Growth Milan (GROW.MI), raising a total of €9 million. The company subsequently pursued an M&A-driven growth strategy and reorganized into an international group, reaching 460 employees across Europe and the United States and achieving €106 million in revenues. Since 2021, the group has been operating under the name Growens, a holding company with two units (email design and mobile messaging), serving 12,000 clients in 180 countries.
In 2023, Nazzareno completed three exits through the sale of MailUp, Acumbamail, and Datatrics.
He is an active speaker and lecturer, and teaches in the Executive Master in Social Media Marketing & Digital Communication at IULM University. He is also co-author of several books on Email Marketing.
