Giampiero Soncini began his career as an Italian Navy officer (1979–1985) and worked on the NATO research vessel Alliance. In 1988 he founded SpecTec Italy, which later became part of the SpecTec Group. In 2005 he took SpecTec out of KPN and became Group CEO, a post he held until the company's sale to Volaris (Constellation Software) in 2012.
He later worked for Volaris, was Senior Advisor for Marine Innovation at RINA in 2017, and from 2018 was CEO of IB Marine, a software company focused on fleet performance.
He was a panellist at Maritime Italy in 2006 and 2007.