Fabio Sbianchi, Founder and CEO of Octo Telematics

Through partnerships with leading automotive insurance companies, Octo Telematics is demonstrating practical ways that in-vehicle Telematics can significantly improve road safety and security. As the first company to achieve wide-spread program acceptance in Europe, Octo Telematics has become the leader in Insurance Telematics, making possible more than a million "safer road users" today, thanks to the "eCall" functionality embedded within their innovative service offerings.

Fabio Sbianchi is the founder and brain behind Octo's development and expansion since its founding in 2002. Through its Multicountry Services Centre in Italy the company has grown exponentially and is now partnering with about 50 insurance companies – including all of the top five European Insurance Groups. Mr. Sbianchi and his management team have enabled a successful economic business model and recently orchestrated the involvement of a large international investment fund.

Octo's services include a complete range of high added-value vehicle telematics safety services; from real-time road assistance, crash analysis and dynamics reconstruction, Usage-Based Insurance reporting, remote vehicle diagnostics, Floating Car Data traffic information and environmental impact estimation. Octo is internationally certified ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 and their services have widespread acceptance, adding an average of over 1,000 new customers each day.

More info at www.octotelematics.com/solutions/insurance-telematics

Octo Telematics is represented by Mr. Fabio Sbianchi.

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