Gino Stoppano, full name Luigi Stoppano, was born in Alessandria the 10th of October 1926. He had, since a very young age, a great talent for music and studied under Piero Gosio and Alberto Angelini. In 1946 he moved to Venice as a musician to work at Lido di Venezia alongside other artists such as Luciano Cavagnoli, Loris Boresti and Ugo Tognazzi. Gino also took partin several Jazz shows with Gianni Coscia, Angelo Pautrè (swing singer) and Filippo Carletti (jazz pianist) up until 1954 when he joind Vittorio Paltrinieri’s orchestra and went on tour.
In the following years he played as a jazz guitarist in Peter Van Wood’s orchestra and worked alongside Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Valdambrini, Hengel Gualdi, Cesare Marchini and many other musicians.
In 1971, shortly after his return in Italy from Berlin, as he was recording with Giampiero Reverberi and Caterina Valente he suffered from a heart attack which caused his retirement from the world of music. After then, he only rarely took part in charity concerts alongside his friends Cesare Marchini and Giorgio Parodi.
After his retirement he began his path as an entrerpreneur founding a brand of stings for musical instruments, Gi Esse.
In 1989 he traveled to the US to undergo a coronary bypass surgery at St Luke Hospital in Houston, where he was told by his surgeon that the future lied in the electrocardiac stimulation field.
Thereafter, he began to build the machinery needed for the manufacture of cardiac leads and pacemakers officially beginning to turn Giesse Technology into the Company it is today. After Gino Stoppano passed away his son, Raffaele Stoppano, took over Giesse and is still carrying on his father’s work to this day.
