Salvatore Curaba

Salvatore Curaba
Born
Salvatore Curaba

(1963-08-27)August 27, 1963
La Louvière, Belgium.
EducationICT Engineering at ICET Cuemes
OccupationsEASI Founder and Managing Director

Salvatore Curaba (born August 27, 1963, in La Louvière, Belgium) is an entrepreneur and former professional football player.

Early life

Salvatore Curaba's parents left Italy for Belgium in 1956. His father worked in the mines of Saint-Vaast, Fontaine l’Évêque and Sainte-Marguerite. After studying Math and Latin in Saint-Joseph school, Salvatore Curaba studied ICT Engineering at ICET Cuemes for 2 years.

Football career (1972–1991)

Royale Association Athlétique Louviéroise

1972–1982

As many kids of his age, Salvatore was passionate about football. He started playing at Royale Association Athlétique Louviéroise at 9 years old. He made his debut in the first team in 1982 at 19 years old in second division.

82-83: Second Division. Coach: André Gorez

Royal Charleroi Sporting Club

Source:[1]

83-84: Second Division. Coach: Eric Vanlessen

84-85: Second Division. Coach: André Colasse

On 21 June 1985, the RSCS won the « Final Round » and was upgraded in first division.

85-86: First Division. Coach: André Colasse

86-87: First Division. Coach: André Colasse

87-88: RCSC turned professional. Coach: Aimé Anthuenis

At the end of this season, after 70 matched played in First Division, Salvatore Curaba had to choose between a full-time professional football player career or an IT career. He opted for IT but kept playing football for the RAAL (third division).

Royale Association Ahtlétique Louviéroise

88-89: Third Division. Coach: Casimir Jagiello

89-90: Third Division. Coach: Guy Fromont

Stade Louvain

90-91: Second Division. Coach: Vince Biganti

Coach formation

At 27 years old, after few injuries, Salvatore Curaba decided to stop his football career and went for a football coach formation.

91-93: Belgian trainer school (UEFA B Certificate)

IT career (1983–1999)

SBAI

In 1983, Salvatore Curaba started working at SBAI, an ICT company. He started as a programmer, became an analyst and after 3 years he was a project manager specialized in the hospital sector. While working for SBAI Salvatore was also a professional football player for the Royal Charleroi Sporting Club.

IBS

Sales Rep

In 1988, after quitting his career as a professional football player for the Royal Charleroi Sporting Club, Salvatore Curaba became Sales representative for the IT company Proget (which will be bought by IBS in 1996).

Sales Manager

In 1994, Salvatore Curaba had to choose between a career as football coach or keep evolving in the IT sector. He opted for IT and was promoted Sales Manager for IBS. In 1998, after 10 years in this company and a few months before being nominated General Manager for IBS's Brussels offices, Salvatore left the company to found his own IT company, EASI.

Entrepreneurship career (1999-today)

EASI

Founder & Managing Partner

On March 26, 1999, Salvatore Curaba, together with Christian Castelain, formed EASI, a computer services firm in Belgium, offering software, mobile apps, infrastructures, and cloud computing.[2][3] In 2012, the number of EASI employees hit 90. Curaba then purchased Castelain's share in the company to be the only CEO of EASI, setting up a management system based on employee ownership and open operations.[4][5] According to his management philosophy, Curaba continuously offers company shares to its employees. In 2015 and 2016, EASI, with 150 employees, was selected as "Best Workplace" in Belgium and 8th in Europe.[6][7][8] Moreover, Curaba became the finalist for the 2014 Manager of the Year award by Trends-Tendances.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Furthermore, EASI was a finalist for the 2015 Enterprise of the Year award.[15][16]

Football clubs

In 2015, after more than 30 years away from the football sector, Salvatore Curaba was approached to take over the Royal Albert Elisabeth Club from Mons.[17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24] The deal was never concluded.

Later in 2015, the Union Royale la Louviere Centre also contacted him to take over the club.[25][26][27] These negotiations didn't lead to a deal yet.

Public speaker

Since 2014, Salvatore Curaba has regularly given speeches and conferences around Belgium, in which he links his former challenges as professional football player with his career as a business man and entrepreneur.

Awards, honors and press

2014: Nominated for Manager of the year (Trends Tendance)

2015: EASI finalist for Company of the year (EY)

2015: Best Workplace Belgium (Vlerick Business School)

2016: Best Workplace Belgium (Vlerick Business School)

8 Times: Trends Gazelles

References

  1. ↑ sudinfo.be. "Sporting Charleroi: Curaba avait terrassé le Standard en 1985 (VIDEO)". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  2. ↑ "Inbox Zéro, le dernier projet -"fou"- de Salvatore Curaba" (in French). 2014-11-24. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  3. ↑ "Inbox Zero, l'App belge qui veut détroner Gmail". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  4. ↑ "Comment le bonheur au travail peut-il garantir le succès?". www.b4c.be. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  5. ↑ lesoir.be. "Quelques conseils pour passer un été serein". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  6. ↑ Newmedia, RTL. "Voici Salvatore, considéré comme le MEILLEUR EMPLOYEUR belge: son histoire et sa méthode valent le détour". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  7. ↑ "Salvatore Curaba: Le Zèbre qui se voulait capitaine". 2016-02-06. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  8. ↑ "Salvatore Curaba, meilleur employeur belge". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  9. ↑ Charlot, Christophe (23 October 2014). "Manager de l'année" (PDF). Trends.be. Trends. Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Pluym, Romain Van Der. "Salvatore Curaba, de Zèbre à top manager". www.dhnet.be. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  11. ↑ "Salvatore Curaba, Manager général-fondateur de " EASI "". Une brique dans le Centre. 2014-11-24. Archived from the original on 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  12. ↑ "TVcom - Salvatore Curaba CEO de EASI". www.tvcom.be. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  13. ↑ "Salvatore Curaba: " J'ai toujours eu l'esprit de competition " - Fokus Entrepreneur". Archived from the original on 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  14. ↑ "RCSC - Sporting de Charleroi". www.sporting-charleroi.be. Archived from the original on 2016-09-16. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  15. ↑ "EASI, entreprise de l'année, pourquoi pas ?". CCI mag '. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  16. ↑ Swaelens, Magaly. "EASI Nivelles sera-t-elle l'Entreprise de l'année 2015?". Archived from the original on 2016-07-10. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  17. ↑ "Mons ne sera pas repris par Salvatore Curaba". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  18. ↑ "Salvatore Curaba candidat à la reprise du RAEC Mons". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  19. ↑ "Rien à Foot - 23/03/2015". www.carrementsteph.be. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  20. ↑ TéléMB : RAEC Mons - Salvatore Curaba dit non à la reprise !! - Les reportages, retrieved 2016-08-24
  21. ↑ "URLC : Salvatore Curaba se retire. Provisoirement ? - Vidéos - VivreIci". www.vivreici.be. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  22. ↑ "Salvatore Curaba ne reprendra pas le RAEC Mons" (in French). 2015-03-12. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  23. ↑ T.), Kevin Centorame et Romain Van der Pluym (avec V. "Faillite du RAEC Mons: un homme d'affaires hennuyer intéressé par la reprise". www.lalibre.be. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  24. ↑ "Curaba : "Je confirme un intérêt pour Mons"" (in French). 2015-02-17. Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  25. ↑ lanouvellegazette.be. "Salvatore Curaba: "Je serai un jour président de La Louvière"". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  26. ↑ lanouvellegazette.be. "Football: approché par La Louvière Centre, Salvatore Curaba botte en touche". Retrieved 2016-08-24.
  27. ↑ lanouvellegazette.be. "Entretien exclusif avec Salvatore Curaba: il nourrit de grandes ambitions pour La Louvière Centre". Retrieved 2016-08-24.

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