Umberto Casalone

Chief Information Officer at SMW Autoblok Group

Umberto Casalone has a diverse work experience spanning from 1991 to the present. Umberto is currently serving as the Chief Information Officer at SMW Autoblok Group since March 2017. Additionally, they are a Member of the board at CDI - Club Dirigenti Informatica di Torino starting from June 2021.

Prior to their current roles, Casalone held various positions in different companies. Umberto was a Member of the Board at FIDAInform from June 2016 to June 2018. Umberto also served as a Program Manager at Nearitmobile from September 2016 to February 2017.

Casalone has had a long tenure at CDI - Club Dirigenti Informatica di Torino. Umberto held multiple roles at the company, including Vice President from June 2014 to May 2016, Member of the Board from January 2000 to May 2014, and later resumed the role of Member of the Board from June 2016 to May 2018.

From 2015 to 2016, Casalone worked as the Services Applications Division Director at EXITone S.p.A. Umberto also had a significant role at Seat Pagine Gialle, where they took on several responsibilities. These included being the Mobile Marketing - Senior Product Manager from January 2009 to May 2015 and the B2B Business Developer - Program & Project Manager from March 2008 to December 2008. Before that, they served as the CIO - KOMPASS Business Unit from July 2007 to February 2008 and the IT Infrastructure & Security Manager from July 2000 to June 2007.

Prior to their corporate roles, Casalone worked as a Self-Employed IT Consultant from January 1991 to June 2000. Umberto provided their services as a computer consultant (Network & System Engineer) to various large enterprises such as Italian Commercial Bank, AEM, and Telecom Italy.

Umberto Casalone obtained a Master's degree in Executive MBA from MBA Alma (ex Profingest) during the period of 2003-2005.

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Turin, Italy

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SMW Autoblok Group

SMW-AUTOBLOK is a global corporate group in the workholding industry since 1942 from the foundation of Autoblok SpA in Italy, the largest power chuck manufacturer in Europe. In the 1970s the company established AUTOBLOK France, UK and Germany. In 1990s Autoblok SpA established AUTOBLOK USA, AUTOBLOK Japan and acquired SMW of Germany. The combination of these premier manufacturing entities created the SMW-AUTOBLOK group and resulted in the most extensive product line of high quality workholding for clamping technology and gripping systems on machine tools in the world. SMW AUTOBLOK customers are ensured a consistent, single source of superior product performance, support and service of power chucks, manual chucks, static chucks, stationary workholding, special jaw chuck customization, cylinders and steady rests. Our production facilities are in Caprie-Italy, Meckenbeuren-Germany, Wheeling IL-USA, Shanghai-China and Pune-India. The global corporate organization SMW Autoblok achieved sustained global growth by providing a superior level of customer service and technical support for our application driven product line. Now our group is a global corporate established in China, India, Russia, Spain, Mexico, Taiwan and Czech Republic. With the addition of Mario Pinto and OML the group is now unmatched worldwide.


Headquarters

Caprie, Italy

Employees

501-1,000

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