Markus Venzin – Senior Executive Program Director
Professor of Global Strategy at Bocconi University and Director of the Master of Science Program in International Management. Professor Venzin conducts research projects with firms on their internationalization strategies, the management of their subsidiary network, global knowledge management systems as well as the development of formal planning and control processes. He is the author of the book “Building an International Financial Services Firm: How to Design and Execute Cross-Border Strategies”, Oxford University Press.

"Less is more: how firms manage the growth paradox"

Thanos Papadimitriou – Senior Executive Program Coordinator
SDA Professor of Operations and Technology Management and an expert in the strategic use of technology. He has studied at MIT and UCLA and possesses considerable industry experience, most notably, co-founding and serving as the CTO of AlphaDetail in the San Francisco bay area. Professor Papadimitriou has served and is currently serving in the management team or the advisory board of various startups including M2C Media, Infocious, Lingo Semantics, and mBriyo.

Beatrice Bauer - SDA Professor of Organization and Human Resources Management. Being a licensed psychologist, she has specialized in behavior change at the University of Minnesota (US). She teaches HR Management at Bocconi University and as a sports psychologist she has prepared Italian sport teams and individual athletes for the Olympics. Her special field of expertise is in innovative stress prevention programs for top managers.

Carlo Alberto Carnevale Maffé - SDA Professor of Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management. Professor Carnevale is a regular columnist and commentator for financial newspaper and television such as MF-Milano Finanza, Il Sole 24 Ore, Class News, CNBC Europe and Bloomberg Television. He serves as strategy adviser and independent non-executive director on the board of leading international companies operating in information technology, media and telecommunications.

Renzo A. Cenciarini - SDA Professor of Accounting, Control, Corporate and Real Estate Finance. He specializes in the management of corporate restructuring as well as mergers and acquisition projects. Professor Cenciarini has considerable experience in strategic consulting, investment banking and private equity, gained in 20 years of professional activity with the Boston Consulting Group, the Chase Manhattan Bank, Citicorp Investment Bank and international private equity funds.

Melinda Chan Butts is founder of i-Global PR, a Milano and London based strategic brand communications consultancy specializing in international PR and reputation management campaigns. I-Global PR works closely with influential global media to ensure brands and clients build and maintain a credible and positive reputation in today’s challenging new media environment. Melinda has nearly twenty years experience in global PR and crisis  communications in Asia and Europe for Philip Morris, HSBC, Citibank, Microsoft, Airbus, Emirates, Motorola, American Express, Daewoo, GlaxoSmithKline and Unilever. Melinda is a global consultant for The Nielsen Company across corporate, consumer and media sectors, Visa in Asia Pacific and G2 in EMEA.

Daniel De Filippis following almost a decade of experience in strategic communication and public relations in-house and agency side, Daniel founded Platypus PR in 2008. A beverage and lifestyle industry expert, Daniel has worked for and with some of the biggest names in the beverage world, as well as smaller start-ups and wineries searching for international exposure and strategic consultancy. Platypus is boutique consultancy focusing on strategic brand communications, brand launches, web communications and professional presentation training. Present and recent clients include: Anna Tasca Lanza, BabelTV (A Sky channel), C.L.A.S.S., GBNetwork, and NatureWorks.

Luca De Meo is the Marketing Director in Volkswagen - VW Group and VW Passenger Cars. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Alfa Romeo Automobiles/Brand at Alfa Romeo UK Ltd. and Fiat S.p.A. since September 2007. He also served as Chief Marketing Officer of Fiat S.p.A. and Head of Fiat Vehicle Brand. He headed the Lancia brand marketing operations since 2002 and was responsible for sales and marketing operations of the Fiat brand.

Nina de Roy dos Santos is an international correspondent for NBC News. Nina is based in London but has been a correspondent in Rome and Milan and has reported from as far afield as Moscow, Reykjavik, Istanbul and Helsinki. Prior to NBC, Nina was a presenter for Sky News. She has extensive knowledge of business news, having been an anchorwoman for Bloomberg Television and written for the Wall Street Journal, various publications of the Financial Times and the Associated Press. Nina is a media trainer at i-Global PR.

Bettina Gehrke - SDA Professor of Organization and Human Resources Management. She is an expert in intercultural management training and consultancy, working mainly with multinational corporations, designing tailor-made programs for management development and facilitating change during their internationalization
process. Some of her latest projects include the development of leadership competencies for doing business in Emerging Economies.

Takis Georgakopoulos is the Worldwide CFO of Corporate Banking at JP Morgan. Prior to joining JP Morgan, he was a Partner at McKinsey's New York Financial Institutions Group, serving several of the largest universal and investment banks. Takis holds a PhD from the Technical University of Athens and an MA in Mathematics of Finance from Columbia University.

Robert Grant is the Eni Professor of Strategic Management at Bocconi University. He is the author of the best selling textbook “Contemporary Strategy Analysis,” which is widely used in MBA programs in Europe and North America. Prior to joining Bocconi University, he was a Professor of Strategic Management at Georgetown University. He has worked with companies such as Nortel, American Express, Zurich Financial Services and Lockheed Martin.

"After the financial services crisis: roads to increase competitiveness of Europe"

Emma Hart is a media trainer at i-Global PR and specializes in presentation, print and broadcast media training. Emma is also a working journalist, which means she knows the difference between key messages and a newsworthy hook that will result in positive coverage. Emma works with international companies to prepare companies and executives for rigorous media encounters including IPO’s, briefings, press conferences and launches. Emma has media trained senior executives globally for The Nielsen Company, Microsoft, Saatchi & Saatchi, Royal Bank of Canada, Orange, PwC, Ernst & Young, Starbucks and Yahoo!

Roberto Lancellotti is a Director of McKinsey & Company, Inc. and the leader of the Business Technology Office in the Mediterranean area. He is also an active member of McKinsey’s European Banking Leadership Group. His field of expertise mainly covers operational and organizational issues for financial institutions, with a special focus on Information Technology to maximize its business impact. He holds a degree with Honors in Computer Science from the University of Milan and an MBA with Honors from SDA Bocconi.

Lluis Martinez Passionate about retail innovation, a specialty that he has developed in 21 countries, he manages to combine his work at ESADE as Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing Management, with consultancy activity in intellectually significant projects. As a consultant, he has worked with companies such as Asics, Bayer, Bed's, Bimbo, Camper, Caprabo, Cepsa, Coca-Cola, Comité Olímpico Internacional, Cuevas, Eroski, Eukanuba, Euromadi, Fagor, General Optica, Goodyear, Danone, Grupo Sans (Sara Lee branded apparel), Habitat, Imaginarium, Intersport, 'la Caixa', Marcilla, Mattel, Mercadona, Nutrexpa (Cola Cao), Pans & Company, Prénatal, Punto Blanco, Pyrénées, Sonríe, Supsa, Unilever (Instituto Pond's), Uralita, Valentine o Viajes El Corte Inglés, among others.

Vincenzo Perrone - Professor of Organization Theory and Design at Bocconi University. Professor Perrone is a recognized expert in Corporate theory and change management, he has studied the relation between strategy and organization. He is the editor of “Economia & Management” a leading Italian management review. He has worked for companies such as Barilla, Amplifon, Fiera Milano, Uniqa Group, Pitti Immagine. In March 2007, he was appointed a member of the Technical Commission on Public Finance by the Italian Minister of Economy.

Marco Serra is the Group HR Director of Fiera Milano. Prior to this post, he held several HR roles in Shell from 1991 until 2007, in very different business situations: rapid growth, significant downsizing, start-up, mergers, acquisitions, divestments. His experience covers all fields of the HR curriculum and has had responsibility for both front line jobs and central offices-types. He has held HR management responsibility at local, regional and global level, working and living abroad, in Germany, The Netherlands and the UK.

Guido Tabellini Rector of Bocconi University since November of 2008, where he has been Professor of Economics since 1994. Before returning to Europe, he taught at Stanford and UCLA. He is a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the Econometric Society, a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, he received the Yrjo Jahnsson award by the European Economic Association, and he has been President of the European Economic Association.

Maurizio Zollo Bocconi Dean's Chaired Professor in Strategy and Corporate Responsibility. He joined Bocconi University in 2007 after 10 years with the strategy department of INSEAD. He is a recognized authority in the management of corporate development processes (M&A, alliances), organizational learning and corporate responsibility practices. He recently published "Mergers: Leadership, Performance and Corporate Health" with the global leaders of the Post-Merger Management practice of McKinsey.