PocketBookie™ Founders & Team
PocketBookie™ is an artificial intelligence sports-market analysis and information-organization company founded in Chicago in 2026.
PocketBookie™ is not a sportsbook and does not accept, place, process, book, or facilitate wagers.
Co-founders
Tommy Gillibano
Co-founder
Tommy Gillibano is a co-founder of PocketBookie™ and one of the principal voices setting its strategic compass. As a longtime gambler, he understands that a bettor rarely needs more noise; the real advantage is knowing which information matters, when it matters, and how to judge it under pressure. Tommy brings that instinct to the company’s larger decisions, continually returning the product to the habits and questions of the people it was built to serve. His Chicago connection comes through in a leadership style grounded in practical judgment, resilience, and the disciplined ambition associated with the city’s strongest family-run enterprises. He helps keep PocketBookie bold in its vision, exacting in its standards, and unmistakably authentic to gambling culture.
Joey Costaccoli
Co-founder
Joey Costaccoli is a co-founder of PocketBookie™ and a driving force behind turning its founding idea into something genuinely useful. A longtime gambler, Joey approaches the platform from the bettor’s side of the screen: Is the information clear? Does it respect the user’s time? Can it help someone think more intelligently about an uncertain market? That practical point of view gives him a distinct place in the company’s direction, balancing ambition with everyday usability. Joey’s Chicago connection is reflected in his emphasis on loyalty, straight talk, earned trust, and determined follow-through—qualities long associated with the city’s neighborhood businesses and family enterprises. His influence helps ensure PocketBookie remains approachable, relevant, and accountable to the community gathered around it.
Web Design
Johnny Fillinni
Web Designer
Johnny Fillinni helps shape the first impression PocketBookie™ makes. His web-design contribution centers on visual identity: strong hierarchy, memorable presentation, and an interface with enough character to stand apart without getting in the user’s way. Johnny’s eye helps translate an advanced AI platform into an experience that feels immediate and confidently understood from the moment it loads. The result carries a distinctly Chicago sensibility—bold rather than timid, direct rather than ornamental, and polished without losing its street-level energy. His work gives the brand a recognizable front door and helps every important message arrive with clarity and impact.
Alessandro Bartolomeo
Web Designer
Alessandro Bartolomeo brings structure and continuity to PocketBookie’s digital presence. Where ambitious ideas can easily become crowded, his web-design perspective favors orderly systems, intuitive pathways, responsive behavior, and visual consistency from one section to the next. Alessandro’s contribution is the quiet architecture that lets users move through a complex product without feeling the complexity behind it. His Chicago connection is expressed through a workshop-like respect for craft: build carefully, solve practical problems, and make every detail support the whole. That disciplined approach helps PocketBookie feel dependable, accessible, and thoughtfully constructed on every screen.
Market Strategy
Alphonse Carbone
Market Strategist
Alphonse Carbone focuses on the story PocketBookie tells the market and the position it earns within it. He works at the intersection of message, audience, and long-term opportunity—clarifying what makes the company different and how that value should be communicated as the brand grows. His strategic perspective draws energy from Chicago’s commercial character, where reputation is built through neighborhood relationships and where restaurants, transportation businesses, and family enterprises succeed by knowing their customers well. Alphonse helps turn those lessons into disciplined positioning, giving PocketBookie a voice that is credible, memorable, and capable of building recognition beyond its home city.
Antonio Capone
Market Strategist
Antonio Capone brings an analytical lens to PocketBookie’s market strategy. His attention is directed toward audience behavior, competitive context, growth opportunities, and the signals that reveal whether a message is truly connecting. Rather than treating expansion as reach alone, Antonio emphasizes relevance—understanding who the company is speaking to, what earns their attention, and which relationships can support durable growth. That approach is grounded in a Chicago tradition of resilience and relationship-driven enterprise, where credibility is built over time and directness matters. His work helps PocketBookie widen its presence without diluting the local character and gambler-informed perspective that make the company distinctive.
Secretarial Team
Gianna Piano
Secretary
Gianna Piano helps give PocketBookie’s working day its rhythm. Her secretarial role supports scheduling, priorities, correspondence, and the steady follow-through that keeps important work from being lost between conversations. Gianna brings a composed, attentive presence to the details behind the company’s larger ambitions, helping the team stay prepared and aligned as demands shift. Her professionalism reflects Chicago at its most capable: practical, unflustered, and ready to move the next item forward. Through that consistency, she creates the order that allows creative and strategic work to proceed with purpose.
Gina Gapstelli
Secretary
Gina Gapstelli strengthens the communication network behind PocketBookie™. She helps route questions, coordinate responses, track commitments, and make sure the right people have the right information at the right time. Her contribution is especially valuable where professionalism depends on responsiveness and where small details shape a larger relationship. Gina’s approach carries the attentiveness associated with Chicago hospitality and the personal accountability of a family-run business: acknowledge people, remember what was promised, and close the loop. That care helps the organization remain connected, courteous, and dependable behind the scenes.
Gia Armandi
Secretary
Gia Armandi provides continuity across PocketBookie’s administrative work. She helps maintain records, organize handoffs, and preserve the thread between decisions so the team can move quickly without losing context. Gia’s contribution is defined by dependable execution: the confirmation sent, the document accounted for, the loose end brought to completion. Her Chicago connection shows in a grounded ethic of loyalty and responsibility—being someone others can count on when momentum is high and details still matter. That steady foundation supports the public-facing team with accuracy, readiness, and confidence.
Video
Charlie Scattabelli
Video Editor
Charlie Scattabelli gives PocketBookie’s ideas motion, pace, and emotional weight. As video editor, he shapes raw material into purposeful stories—finding the strongest opening, controlling rhythm, sharpening transitions, and making sure every frame advances the message. Charlie’s work allows announcements and brand moments to feel produced rather than merely recorded, extending PocketBookie’s personality into a medium built for attention. His creative perspective draws on Chicago’s visual contrasts: historic grit beside modern ambition, neighborhood character beside big-city scale. Through that lens, he helps the company communicate with energy, polish, and a cinematic identity audiences can recognize.
Ownership & Intellectual Property
Since August 25, 2025, co-founders Tommy Gillibano and Joey Costaccoli have jointly been the sole owners of PocketBookie™. Together, they exclusively own the PocketBookie™ trademark and all PocketBookie™ copyrights.
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