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词条 Andrea La Mendola
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

      Cinema    Hyperloop Transportation Technologies  

  3. References

{{Orphan|date=March 2019}}Andrea la Mendola is an Italian director, producer, engineer and technology entrepreneur. He serves as Chief Global Officer of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT).[1][2][3][4]

Early life

La Mendola was born in Turin, Italy.[1] He graduated in 2009 at Polytechnic of Turin, with a Masters Degree of Media and Cinema Engineering. He won a grant for research about the movie industry in the US. In 2011, he received a certificate in film direction at UCLA extension[1]

Career

Cinema

In 2006 he co-founded an Italian movie production company. He worked as producer and director for commercials, feature films, documentaries and short films. He wrote, produced and directed the movie Echoes and won awards at Milan International Film Festival, and the Santa Monica Film Festival. He directed other movies including Just One Shot, Ginger and Bullets and Lost In Gray.

He produced Zoo School, Elena (awarded by the Miami Film Festival as Best Short), and A Scrap of Paradise (best documentary award at Annency Film Festival and Euganaea Film Festival).

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies

While directing a film, La Mendola was introduced to Bibop Gresta (co-founder and chairman of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies).[2] Gresta was impressed with La Mendola's managerial insights and said, "“He came to Los Angeles from Turin to become a movie director and he got in touch with me.[2] Once, I visited him on a movie set and was impressed by the way he was seamlessly managing 80+ people.” He continued, “When I learned that Andrea was an engineer, I asked him if he wanted to coordinate our engineers around the world, he accepted immediately, but it was ultimately the engineers who elected him to be their Head of Global Operations.”[2]

La Mendola helped the company in its implementation of its Great Lakes goal: connecting Chicago and Cleveland via Hyperloop Travel.

References

1. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.kotalentagency.com/directors/andrea-la-mendola/|title=Andrea La Mendola {{!}} KO Talent Agency (KOTA)|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-15}}
2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2016/03/25/hyperloop-end-of-the-start-up/|title=The end of the start-up era?|website=lavocedinewyork.com|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-15}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hyperloop-transportation-technologies-signs-first-us-interstate-agreement-300599548.html|title=Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Signs First US Interstate Agreement|last=Technologies|first=Hyperloop Transportation|website=www.prnewswire.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-15}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.hyperloop.global/|title=Hyperloop Transportation Technologies {{!}} HyperloopTT|last=HyperloopTT|website=Hyperloop Transportation Technologies {{!}} HTT|language=en|access-date=2019-03-15}}
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