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Luca primarily contributes to Forrester's offerings for Marketing Leadership professionals. He is an expert on how senior marketers can take advantage of new advertising, communication, and service technologies to bolster their brands' health, deepen customer relationships, and, ultimately, increase sales.
His current research centers on upcoming trends and transformations in the media and advertising space that lead to increasing media fragmentation. By investigating the ways consumers have embraced digital experiences and platforms, Luca and his team help clients redefine their strategy models and better serve consumers.
He lends a strategic yet pragmatic perspective on the key trends affecting publishing and media buying; content strategy; the future of online, offline, and connected TV; and the blurring of the lines between product, service, and communication. Luca also leads our research on marketing mix optimization and guides CMOs and marketing leaders in their efforts to establish analytic systems to inform marketing spend and ROI.
Previously at Forrester, he was a Technographics® analyst and principal consulting analyst.
Before joining Forrester, Luca was head of industry marketing for Google in EMEA, looking after sales and marketing strategy for advertising products across verticals. In addition, Luca has more than 10 years of marketing and strategy experience at some of the world's largest and most important branded goods manufacturers, including Ferrero, Johnson & Johnson, L'Oréal, and Prada, working across Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, and Russia. Luca is a regular keynote speaker at international marketing and media events.
The Nine Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up
Since Forrester published its first Wave™ evaluation on marketing mix modeling in 2011, the market has undergone significant growth and evolution as marketers demand more in-depth, real-time,...
Benchmarks: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Few marketers have a structured approach to optimizing their marketing mix, often missing the opportunity to deliver better results with the same level of investment or to effectively reallocate...
Performance Management: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Successful optimization of the marketing mix requires careful coordination of multiple data streams, generation of insights from marketing mix models, and careful review of budget allocation...
Executive Overview: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
When making their investment decisions across the marketing mix, senior marketers face the constant challenge of coping with the proliferation of communication and engagement platforms while facing...

Business Case: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is a powerful tool that provides a holistic understanding of marketing performance across channels. With marketing mix modeling, marketers can positively affect business...
Strategic Plan: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix optimization — the practice of using data-driven insights to strategically allocate and optimize marketing budgets across channels — is a powerful tool to help marketers...
Tools And Technology: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Marketing mix modeling is undergoing a transformation as marketers increasingly demand that vendors provide solutions that can be updated frequently, easily aggregate data streams, provide...
Organization: The Marketing Mix Optimization Playbook
Most marketers have earned their stripes through corporate work experience and business-school training that takes a top-down linear approach to marketing planning and optimization. Today, the...
Read this report if you want to understand how to measure the effectiveness of a branded content strategy along the stages of the customer life cycle. This report will help you define the most...
CMOs Must Take A More Active Role In Business And Technology Strategy
Forrester Research and Heidrick & Struggles recently conducted a global survey of nearly 200 chief marketing officers (CMOs). In this report, you will find out how these CMOs view their relationship...

Forrester believes that chief marketing officers (CMOs) must abandon the century-old marketing/sales funnel and embrace the customer life cycle in order to better manage their customers' interaction...

Senior marketing leaders are missing a key opportunity by underinvesting in marketing mix modeling. Those who have adopted marketing mix modeling find that it works. They are able to proactively...

Use Technology To Move From Experimentation To Driving Results
In 2012, CMOs will need to embrace technology to help them handle big issues like: 1) addressing the maturation of social media from cool tool to critical connector with customers; 2) determining how...
