"I have known Angelo for three years and have interacted extensively with him in his capacity as my mentor at Columbia University Master’s program. Angelo is a generous, hard-working, organized and well-rounded IT leader and adviser, and it has been a pleasure working with him. By sharing his vast knowledge and experience in addition to his pragmatic guidance, Angelo has not only helped me successfully design, implement and defend my master’s thesis, but he has also significantly contributed to my development as an IT leader."

"I was privileged to have Angelo as my mentor for my master's degree at Columbia University. I found Angelo to be a very charismatic leader and an extremely reliable partner. His wealth of financial industry experience coupled with his insights in planning various aspects of a startup company were invaluable for the maturity and relevance of my thesis project. He showed great passion towards my success and guided me on how to be a leader. His candid, constructive and timely feedback encouraged me to think outside the box. His depth of knowledge on risk management practices, value proposition, strategic planning and marketing broadened my horizons that will go a long way in my future endeavors. He is a great mentor and I thank him for his time, effort and dedication!"

"In my five years at Bank Leumi USA as Deputy Head of Operations, I had the pleasure to work closely with Angelo - as Head of IT - on many business projects closely tied with IT. During the implementation of these projects and the personal interactions with Angelo, I came to appreciate Angelo's strong professionalism and leadership skills so essential in managing a complex IT environment towards getting projects implemented on time and within budget. Angelo is a very personable individual and manager, and if given the chance in the future I would certainly enjoy working with him."

"Angelo provided solid technical, architectural and organizational grounding within an environment with complex political challenges. He was able to move projects and strategies forward and to assist others in doing the same. His skills and personality made getting the work done easy. It was a pleasure to work with him."

"Angelo is a very senior level IT Enterprise manager with outstanding leadership skills and a complimentary management style. His ability to communicate at all levels of an organization make him Angelo is a very senior level IT Enterprise manager with outstanding leadership skills and a complimentary management style. His ability to communicate at all levels of an organziation make him an effective communicator and his attention to detail ensures success in all efforts he is involved. Angelo and I worked together on several Enterprise Architecture initiatives and I would recommend Angelo to any organization looking for someone who brings solutions to the table and the experience to execute against those solutions."

"Angelo is a charismatic and visionary C-level seasoned leader who knows his craft of transforming large IT organizations into right sized shared services model . I had privilege to work with him closely on many of the strategic initiatives. He was instrumental in creating Citi’s first central PMO office within IT. He streamlined release management and transformed business workflow to IT into quarterly and monthly releases and implemented practical Global Release Management practice delivering products to business on time and on budget with metrics and transparency that created trust and value for IT organization. The depth and breadth of Angelo’s caliber is unique and hard to find. He knows the building blocks of a successful IT organization and transforms organization into model of valued services delivery."

"John P. Kotter wrote the book about Leading Change, Angelo, is the perfect practical example of how its done. Angelo is a leader who has an extra ordinary capacity to listen and to communicate. I worked with Angelo in two world class organization where his collective impact averted a series of disasters to company operations. He is a ripe CIO, COO and CEO, who leads by example and someone, who is guided by unwavering professionalism and ethics. he understands technology, people and finance. Has repeatedly shown the ability to optimize these resources in ways that keep organizations ahead of the competition, even in these turbulent and fast moving markets."

"In the 15 years that I have known Angelo, I have had the pleasure to work with him on many projects at Citibank. He is a natural leader with an easy going manner, and a capability to inspire others that few can command. His team members always think highly of him and truly enjoy working with him and for him. Through his leadership the Citi technology staff grew in capability, delivered higher quality products, and formed deep strong partnerships with the senior most business leaders. In this role Angelo's team always had to deliver on significant time bound commitments. To ensure his teams's success Angelo created an atmosphere of creativity, and thought leadership, which they used to discover approaches to meet the deliverable requirements. Truely an excellent team player, that inspires others and understands how to manage people to get the best out of them."

"I had the pleasure of working for Angelo for over 4 years while at Citigroup. Angelo is the type of leader that understands the way to grow an organization is to grow your people and lead by example. He set the bar for the organization in his work etchic, his integrity and his loyalty to the organization. He expected the same of his team and while he was tough, he was fair and earned the respect of those that worked for him, his peers and his management. His knowledge of the finance sector and technology is outstanding - Angelo always knew that banking and technology are constantly evolving and would make sure to keep himself and his team abreast of the leading developments. He embraces the project management discipline and grew his organization at Citigroup to be one of the leading project management groups that were looked to for their project management expertise. I grew a lot professionally and personally while working for Angelo and would welcome working for him again. Any organization that he works for is guaranteed to benefit from his leadership and successful career experience."

"In the 15 years that I have known Angelo, I have had the pleasure to work with him on many projects at Citibank. He is a natural leader with an easy going manner, and a capability to inspire others that few can command. His team members always think highly of him and truly enjoy working with him and for him. Through his leadership the Citi technology staff grew in capability, delivered higher quality products, and formed deep strong partnerships with the senior most business leaders. In this role Angelo's team always had to deliver on significant time bound commitments. To ensure his teams's success Angelo created an atmosphere of creativity, and thought leadership, which they used to discover approaches to meet the deliverable requirements. Truely an excellent team player, that inspires others and understands how to manage people to get the best out of them."

"Angelo is a born leader. His in-depth understanding of retail Bank's products/services combined with extra ordinary process and organizational skills makes him a perfect candidate for a CIO job in a US retail Bank. He is extremely hard working and he instantly attracts talent. I have no doubt that he can turn any IT organization into a smooth humming m/c once he is put in-charge and is given freedom to act."