About i-Clique Inc.

Marco has spent more than three decades doing what he loves most — building great software and the teams behind it. He started his career at Ericsson in Rome, developing large-scale operations support systems for Telecom Italia, before heading to Halifax where things really got interesting. His dual Canadian and Italian citizenship is a nod to a career that has always been comfortable crossing borders, whether geographic or technological.

At InfoInterActive, he served as VP Engineering and led the team that built Internet Call Manager — a distributed network product that delivered real-time call notifications over the internet at a time when that was a genuinely novel idea. That technology and team caught AOL's attention, and the company was acquired for $40M. He went on to co-found Gegy, where he built a fault-tolerant supply-chain and e-commerce platform serving over 10,000 small online retailers, and helped raise $1.5M in seed funding while building out the full product and engineering organization.

At BlackBerry, Marco created an open source governance framework adopted across all of R&D and IT — work that directly enabled BlackBerry's adoption of WebKit and laid the foundation for the QNX-based BB10 operating system. He later moved into product management, leading the 4G PlayBook program and bringing RIM's first LTE, WiMAX, HSPA+, and NFC-enabled devices to market. At Guidewire Software, he ran the Toronto Development Centre, leading a 25-person team delivering insurance policy administration systems worldwide. At NetSuite, he built the Kitchener-Waterloo engineering site from the ground up, growing it to 50+ people across five cross-functional teams. At Shopify, he led the team behind Transporter — used by thousands of large merchants migrating onto the platform — as well as Multi-Shop Management and the platform's fine-grained authorization framework.

Marco holds a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Computer Science from Dalhousie University.

He founded i-Clique in 2004 — initially as a consulting and fractional CTO practice — and now focuses on building i-Clique's own software products, starting with RetireEZ. He's passionate about agile practices, test-driven development, and creating the kind of environment where good engineers do their best work.