Giuseppe Martinengo, Vice President of Operations
Giuseppe Martinengo has a truly international background. He was born and raised in Italy, where he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1985, in spite of the opposition of his family and friends. Giuseppe married Giovanna in 1987 and their first two children, Luca and Simon, were born in the following years. In Italy, Giuseppe worked as a sale representative for several companies, but in 1992 he decided to move to Brazil to pursue new opportunities in business. What he had heard about the amazing growth of the Mormon Church in that country helped him to make the final decision to move. In Italy, Giuseppe experienced what it means to be a pioneer in the Church, and he was always involved in missionary work, but Brazil at that time seemed to offer more growing opportunities.
In Brazil, Giuseppe worked as an entrepreneur in various small businesses, but he was also the associate director of a non-profit organization sponsored by several local governments that promoted business ventures between Italian and Brazilian businesses. While in Brazil, two new children were added to the family, and Giuseppe received his bachelor in Social Sciences by the State University (UEL) and he was awarded a special diploma as the student with the highest GPA among all the graduates of that year. Giuseppe was again strongly involved with missionary work for the entire seven years he lived in Brazil. Among other capacities, in the last three years he served as a counselor to the Marilia Mission President. He loved to work closely with members, non-members, and missionaries while traveling through the big mission and making new friends.
One day, while going to a local church conference with the mission president, the area president mentioned the existence of a scholarship program for international students to help them with the costs of an MBA at BYU. Giuseppe felt that he should pursue that opportunity and while still in the last year of college he began studying English and practice for the TOEFL and GMAT tests. He passed them at the first try and in 2000 he was moving to the U.S..
In the US Giuseppe obtained his MBA in 2002 and started working as controller at 10xMarketing, an internet marketing company. In 2004 he decided that to be involved only with work was not fun enough, and then he decided to add more to his schedule, and he went back to school (part-time), to pursue a PhD in Marriage, Family and Human Development, which he obtained in 2007.
In 2005 Giuseppe was invited to become the Content Director of the newly established More Good Foundation. Finally he could go back to be strongly involved with missionary work, but this time on the Internet.
Giuseppe is now the Vide President of Operations of the More Good Foundation and he loves being involved with this work, in multiple languages and countries. Once in a while he teaches marriage preparation classes at BYU, to help students to understand and prepare for righteous marriages.
