Omar Rabbolini
Chief Operating Officer
Omar is an entrepreneur, management consultant, and personal coach with over 20 years of experience in Software Engineering. His experience in managing cross-cultural technical teams spans across the globe, firstly in London, UK and more recently in Hong Kong, where he worked as VP of Engineering at Divide, a startup acquired by Google in 2014, and as Head of Engineering at GoAnimate, now Vyond, a SaaS video making business.
Omar holds an MSc degree in Computer Science with distinction from the University of Westminster in London, UK. He focused on mobile and web application development throughout his career, keeping at the bleeding edge of technology. His most recent endeavors include starting a business focused on creating wellbeing online products, such as meditation apps, and business consultancy/advisory, as well as thought leadership in the form of industry-relevant articles on sites such as Built In and Medium.
He also holds two US patents on the topic of Digital Rights Management for online videos, co-authored in the late 2010s while working at GoAnimate. His experience with e-Learning goes back to the early 2000s, during his employment as team lead/dev manager at Questionmark Computing, a software house making an online learning and assessment product.
Omar is a native level speaker of English and Italian, and is conversant in Cantonese, and elementary in Mandarin Chinese.