The first company
Founded his first technology company, delivering multimedia and digital services for artists and entertainment professionals.
Founder · Producer · Music entrepreneur
Roberto Mantovani
Known internationally as Rob Mantovani, Roberto is an Italian music promoter, record producer and entrepreneur who has spent more than twenty years building connections between music, communication and technology.
Born in Vigevano, Italy, on 22 May 1984. Based in Andalusia, Spain, since 2010.
2003—2026
MANTOVANI
He began his entrepreneurial career in 2003 by developing digital and multimedia services for artists and entertainment professionals. Those early projects—web platforms, streaming and online communication—established the approach that would define his work: understanding a practical industry need and building the infrastructure to solve it.
Over the following years he worked with figures and companies across Italian and international music and television. He collaborated with Claudio Cecchetto on Cecchetto Festival in Internet and contributed to the development of the Memoring platform. His promotion work included projects connected with PFM – Premiata Forneria Marconi, Vittorio Nocenzi, Danilo Amerio, Federico Poggipollini, Paola Iezzi, Giovanni Scialpi and many other artists, as well as assignments involving major record companies.
After moving to Spain in 2010, Roberto expanded his work across Europe and Latin America. He built a group of specialist brands covering promotion, digital distribution, radio monitoring, publishing, editorial media and music technology—today organised through Mantovani Europe SL and Mantovani America LLC.
“The strongest music businesses are built where creative instinct meets useful infrastructure.”
Biography
A career built in chapters
Digital communication before social media
Managed web communication for television personality Valerio Merola and developed hosting and streaming services for web radio projects, including Music Drive, later distributed through Telecom Italia’s Rosso Alice portal.
Promotion, production and Cecchetto
Advised more than 100 artists and music professionals. Worked with Claudio Cecchetto on Cecchetto Festival in Internet and Memoring; supported projects involving Universal Music, Sony Music Italy, PFM, Matisse, Daniele Stefani, Vittorio Nocenzi, Danilo Amerio and Federico Poggipollini.
Spain and a new international base
Moved to Andalusia, collaborated with Sony Music Spain and established companies in Málaga. In 2012 he developed Radio Promoter and its Spanish-market identity Promotor Musical.
Artists, events and proprietary services
Developed projects across Spain and Latin America, including work with Natalia, María Villalón and Giovanni Scialpi; organised Oracle Rocks in Málaga; launched Vendi Musica and introduced proprietary digital delivery as Cartolina Digitale in Italy, followed by the Spanish service now known as Postal Digital.
Mantovani America and DISTRID
Founded Mantovani America LLC in Florida and opened the group’s Miami operations. The European company became Mantovani Europe SL, while DISTRID was launched as the group’s digital distribution brand.
Scale, rights and radio intelligence
Transferred the Mantovani Music catalog and distribution operations to Mantovani America, expanded DISTRID’s platform agreements and launched radio monitoring, Classifica Indie and the promo.radio Radio Date service. By 2022, DISTRID had reached 100,000 distributed tracks worldwide.
A connected ecosystem
Consolidated the group’s promotion, distribution, media, SEO and monitoring platforms across Europe and the Americas. DISTRID grew beyond 250 million annual streams, while the group acquired hitsfy after the platform recorded more than 80,000 active users in 2025.
Television and a renewed collaboration
Appeared in episode eleven of the eighth season of Little Big Italy, produced by Banijay and broadcast on NOVE, the Warner Bros. Discovery channel in Italy, winning his episode. In the same year he resumed his collaboration with Claudio Cecchetto as strategic consultant for Cecchetto’s new radio station.
Today
Europe. America. Latin America.
Roberto leads an international independent ecosystem active across more than 100 countries. His work spans digital distribution, radio and television promotion, music marketing, airplay intelligence, publishing, digital rights and strategic consulting for artists, labels, publishers and entertainment companies.
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