Marco Torregrossa
Marco spends his time helping organisations across sectors and geographies create new portfolios of digital business models leveraging the power of marketplaces, platforms and the gig economy.
He is the CEO at Euro Freelancers, a fundraising marketplace and investment firm in technologies enabling network effects, and Board Member at the European Sharing Economy Coalition, where he led public affairs and governmental relations for Airbnb, Tinder, Netflix and Etsy both in Brussels and Washington DC.
He’s a former EU Commission policy officer and an employment lawyer by training, specialised in solo-entrepreneurship, management of distributed workforce, digital work on platforms and the impacts of flexible labor regulations on the future of work.
For the past 15 years, he’s led government relations and advocacy efforts, advising policymakers on the issues that one-person businesses and their ecosystem face. The focus is on better understanding what megatrends are impacting work, and what public policy approaches can help workers and businesses adjust and succeed in this evolving environment.
He studied and worked with platform businesses for 13+ years and trained 250+ people from leading organisations in public and private sectors, including Fortune 500, on how to build, monetise and scale digital marketplaces. His last masterclasses took place in Barcelona, Helsinki, Oslo, Tel Aviv and Moscow.
He designed and taught Europe’s first master level course on Platform Strategies for Business in the Digital Age at South-East Finland University of Applied Sciences.
He serves on the New Network Technologies WEF Future Council, is co-author of a new book (January 2021): "The Lean Solopreneur: Platform Work in the New Economy", and a frequent keynote speaker (e.g. TEDxMoscow 2017 and TEDxLeuven 2015).
He’s been named by PR News the most creative practitioner in public affairs in 2016, by the Eurasia Foundation global leader in 2015, and I co-host Legal Hackers in Brussels.
He’s been in the United Nations Peacekeeping Program as Blue Helmet (civilian personnel) for the Office of Mission Support in Eritrea and is a certified first aider with the Italian Red Cross.
Fun fact, he is a e-Resident of Estonia, occasionally playing around being a digital nomad.
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