Management Team

Dario Calogero serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Kaleyra, Inc. and has been a member of Kaleyra’s Board of Directors since the company was founded in 1999. As an experienced entrepreneur, he bootstrapped Kaleyra from its inception, quickly positioning the company in the mobile banking space, and leading Kaleyra as it expanded its product offerings and completed several acquisitions. Prior to founding Kaleyra, Mr. Calogero held executive positions with Oracle, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and management consulting companies including PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Calogero holds a master’s degree in economics from Bocconi University in Milan.

Giacomo Dall’Aglio’s experience is focused on corporate acquisitions and finance. He joined Kaleyra in 2016 as Chief Corporate Development Officer to lead Kaleyra’s growth strategy. Mr. Dall’Aglio is responsible for Kaleyra’s corporate development process. From 2009 to 2016, Mr. Dall’Aglio was with Eidos as a senior consultant responsible for managing mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate finance projects for a portfolio of the firm’s corporate clients. Mr. Dall’Aglio holds a master’s degree in economics from the University of Parma.

Mr. Carobene joined the Company as its Chief Business Officer in October 2021. He has served as a member of the board of advisors of Avenseus Holdings Pte Ltd. since July 2021 and a member of the board of directors of Signal Partners Oy since November 2020. Mr. Carobene co-founded Squisini in April 2015 and continued there as a co-founder until June 2018. In August 2018, he joined Digital Route AB as Chief Commercial Officer and served in that capacity until April 2019 when he became Chief Revenue Officer of that company. He continued as Chief Revenue Officer of Digital Route AB until joining the Company in October 2021. From April 2011 to February 2018, he served Comptel Corporation in a multitude of capacities, including Chief Commercial Officer, Senior Vice President EMEA region, Chief Market Operations Officer, and Senior Vice President of West Europe and Northern America, until Comptel Corporation was acquired by Nokia. Prior to his time at Comptel Corporation, he worked at Nokia from 2004 through April 2011 in a variety of roles, including OSS solutions manager, sales manager, Head of Sales for Vodafone Business Team, OSS/BSS sales director, Head of OSS Integration practice, and Head of OSS Solution Management and Integration. Mr. Carobene holds a Masters degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Politecnico di Milano.

Mr. Grauer joined the Company as the Senior Vice President of Operations and Customer Success in June 2021. Before joining the Company, Mr. Grauer was the Vice President of Security and Technical Operations of mGage (which was acquired by the Company in June 2021) from January 2015 to June 2021. From February 2014 through January 2015, he served as the Chief Product Officer and Chief Technology Officer of Crossboard Mobile. In April 2008, he co-founded Pontiflex and served as its Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer until December 2012 when he became the Chief Executive Officer. He continued as Chief Executive Officer of Pontiflex until it was acquired in April 2014. Prior to co-founding Pontiflex, Mr. Grauer was a senior engineer and manager at Amazon, from November 2004 to April 2008, a Senior Security Consultant at Aozora Bank in Tokyo, from April 2006 to July 2006, and the Lead Unix Engineer at HSBC Bank from September 2001 to September 2004. Mr. Grauer has a Computer Science degree from Florida State University.