BIO

Born in 1985 in Caracas, Venezuela, as the eldest son of a bicultural family with Italian-Venezuelan roots.

After earning his High School Degree at the Italian school U. E. Agustín Codazzi in Caracas, Jose pursued his Bachelor's studies in Mass Communications and Journalism at the prestigious Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, having been awarded the Cum Laude distinction.

This degree opened the doors for him to start a career in the local TV news station Globovisión as Web Producer and then Web Coordinator, a position he held for almost three years.

The year 2010 came with new perspectives. Jose earned a Broadcasting Degree at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, and he also expanded his career internationally, with a Master ́s course in Communication for International Relations from IULM University in Milan, Italy.

In 2011 Jose earned a scholarship and an internship at the Inter Press Service, a news agency focused on South-South cooperation and development topics not usually covered by mainstream media, located at the United Nations headquarters in New York, USA.

The New York experience allowed Jose to understand new realities and attempt to explain complex situations, in both Spanish and English. A few of the topics covered by Jose included immigration reform in the USA, inequality in Latin America, cooperatives, redesign of urban landscapes in developing countries, social change in China, the fight against corruption and crime in Latin America, among others, that have been translated into several languages and published in renowned media, such as Al Jazeera.

Back in Venezuela, between 2011 and 2016 Jose gained experience in multiple areas such as Teaching, Corporate Communications and TV Reporting and Production for HBO Latin America. For the latter network, Jose was able to cover the Venice Film Festival twice, the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

As part of his work for HBO, Jose interviewed celebrities like Monica Bellucci, Juliette Binoche, Matt Damon, Diego Luna, Daniel Radcliffe, Viggo Mortensen, John Krasinski, Casey Affleck, James Franco, Andrew Garfield and Vince Vaughn, among others.

In Madrid, Spain, Jose worked for almost 2 years as a PR Executive for Southern Europe/ Content Marketing Specialist for StubHub, an eBay ticketing company, available in more than 40 countries around the world. He also taught International Communication as part of the Interdisciplinary Courses at Universidad Nebrija.

Since 2020, Jose is based in London, UK. He is currently working as a Senior PR Account Manager at The Fourth Pillar, a corporate and financial strategic communications firm that specialises in the business of music.