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Alberto Ribera

Professor of Managing People in Organisations, IESE Business School & Visiting Professor, IPE Business School

Graduated in Medicine and holding a Doctorate in Economics, Alberto Ribera was Full Professor of Leadership at IESE Business School from 2004 to 2022, teaching in Master’s programmes and various Executive Education courses, and serving as Academic Director of the Coaching Unit. He has conducted courses for companies such as Enel, Ferrero, Compagnia di San Paolo, Banco di Napoli, Telecom Italia, Saint Gobain, Henkel, BBVA, Banco de España, Ernst & Young, Hewlett Packard, BASF, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Shiseido, UNDP, UNICEF, and numerous private companies, public institutions and non-profits.

He served as Associate Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and has taught in universities and business schools across more than 20 countries. Author or co-author of 9 books and over 30 case studies, he was General Director of the Euro-Arab Management School from 1999 to 2003, following a 15-year international career with the European Commission and other multilateral organisations, leading projects in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America and Southeast Asia.

He currently sits on the board of the Istituto per la Cooperazione Universitaria (Rome), the Limmat Foundation (Zurich) and the IPE Business School (Naples).

Luca Testa

Partner, The Boston Consulting Group & Adjunct Professor, IPE Business School

Holding a degree in Energy Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, followed by a specialisation in Automotive Engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Luca Testa further earned an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

He began his career as a powertrain engineer at Mercedes-Benz / Daimler, then moved into express transport network management with DHL. He later entered the consultancy sector, working with top-tier firms such as Bain & Company, Alix Partners, and Boston Consulting Group.

Luca has built solid expertise in industrial and automotive sectors, focusing on corporate restructuring and industrial topics such as production, distribution, procurement, and product development. His vast experience makes him a highly qualified professional capable of providing strategic solutions and high-level support in navigating complex business challenges.

Pablo Sartor Del Giudice

Academic Director and Full Professor, IEEM Business School (Uruguay)

Pablo Sartor Del Giudice is a consultant, professor, researcher and entrepreneur with extensive global experience in IT, Digital Transformation, Business Intelligence, and Innovation. Over the past 20 years, he has provided consultancy services in areas including foreign trade, online information services, agrochemicals, dairy, NGOs, publishing, pharmaceuticals and healthcare.

As Head of IT Strategy at Descartes Datamyne, he has led business intelligence and big data projects since 2005. He is also the founder of Calcufacil (the first online payroll calculator for domestic employees in Latin America) and SSOL, a real-time customer experience monitoring platform. He is currently developing the IT consultancy department at Grant Thornton Uruguay.

Since 2009, Pablo has been Academic Director and Full Professor at IEEM Business School (University of Montevideo, Uruguay), and Affiliate Professor at IESE Business School (Spain). He lectures on Decision Analysis, Innovation, Business Intelligence, and Digital Transformation, and is a guest speaker at various global business schools.

His research focuses on the design and analysis of resilient systems, with numerous academic and conference publications. He holds degrees in Computer Science (INRIA, France) and Information Systems (UdelaR, Uruguay), an MSc in Computer Science, and an Executive MBA from IEEM. He is fluent in Spanish, Italian, English, French, and Portuguese.

Lorenzo Massa
Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability | Visiting Professor, IPE Business School

Lorenzo Massa is a strategy, innovation, and sustainability expert who teaches, researches and consults internationally. He is Full Professor at Aalborg University Business School and Associate Director at Change Logic (Boston). He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network for Innovation and adjunct professor at institutions including EPFL Lausanne, AISTS, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, ESCP, IPE Business School, Timoney Leadership Institute and Bologna Business School.
His research has been published in journals such as the Academy of Management Annals, Journal of Management, and the Oxford Encyclopedia of Business and Management.
He is co-author of the book Sustainable Business Model Design: 45 Patterns, which provides solutions to recurring challenges in sustainable innovation. Lorenzo also advises executives across various industries.
He holds engineering degrees from Dublin Institute of Technology (B.Eng.), University of Genoa (M.Sc.), and an MBA and PhD in Management from IESE Business School, Barcelona. Earlier in his career, he worked as a technologist in the design of blast furnaces and continuous casting systems.

Antonio Ricciardi
President, IPE Business School
Antonio Ricciardi is Full Professor of Business Administration, Chartered Accountant and Auditor. He teaches Financial Reporting and Analysis and Business Strategy and Policy at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Calabria, and Financial Statement Analysis, Management Control, Business Administration and Accounting at Suor Orsola Benincasa University.
A member of AIDEA (Italian Academy of Business Administration) and SIDREA (Italian Society of Accounting and Business Economics Professors), he is the Secretary General of IPE Business School.
He has served on the boards of Università Campus Biomedico (Rome), University of Naples Federico II, and CEINGE (Centre for Advanced Biotechnology Research). He coordinated the National Observatory of Italian Districts and co-founded Project Elica for cooperation between Italian and Dutch industry, in collaboration with Eindhoven's Brainport Industries District.

Enzo Arborea
Head of Research Office, IPE Business School
Researcher in Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (Rome), Enzo Arborea has been Head of the Centre for Studies in Anthropology and Ethics at IPE Business School (Naples) since October 2018.
Previously, he was a researcher in Fundamental Theology at the Faculty of Theology at the same university and Secretary of the Steering Committee of the DISF (Interdisciplinary Documentation Centre for Science and Faith).
He graduated in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (1994), and was Director of the University Residences of the Rui Foundation (1993–2012), where he later served as Head of Training (2008–2012).
He co-edited the book "Pratiche di valutazione formativa. Il caso Fondazione Rui" (2015), and with Luca Arcangeli co-edited "Scienza e visioni del mondo" (2017). He was awarded the Henri de Lubac International Prize 2018–2019 by the Cultural Office of the French Embassy to the Holy See and the Institut français – Centre Saint-Louis.

Antonino Vaccaro
Academic Director, Center for Business in Society | Professor of Business Ethics, IESE Business School (Barcelona)

Antonino Vaccaro is a faculty member in the Department of Business Ethics and the Negotiation Unit at IESE Business School. He also serves as the Academic Director of the Center for Business in Society and the compliance training programmes for top executives across Europe, North America and Latin America.

He holds a Master's degree in Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, a PhD in Engineering and Industrial Management with a specialisation in technology manipulation and corporate corruption (IST Lisbon), and has completed two post-doctoral research fellowships at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Oxford.

Professor Vaccaro is Section Editor of the Journal of Business Ethics, ranked among the top 50 most influential academic journals by the Financial Times. His areas of expertise include compliance, white-collar crime, social innovation and social entrepreneurship.

His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Management Studies, Ethics and Information Technology, Journal of Business Ethics, and The Information Society. His work has also been cited twice by The Economist and Forbes.

He frequently contributes opinion pieces to publications such as Il Sole 24 Ore, Expansión, Forbes, La Sicilia, and Harvard Deusto Review.

Professor Vaccaro has led consultancy and applied research projects for European governmental institutions, the United Nations (Global Compact), and multinational corporations including Southern Company (USA), Alpiq (Switzerland), Volkswagen Autoeuropa (Portugal, Germany), CNIM (France), Artsana Group (Italy), REWE (Germany), Bayer (Germany), HM Clause (France), Fitò (Spain), and Rijk Zwaan (Netherlands).

He has served as an expert witness in over 100 cases concerning corruption, white-collar crime and damage assessments in civil and criminal proceedings across Italy, Spain, Portugal, Africa and Latin America. He has also collaborated on investigations with several law enforcement agencies, including the Portuguese Judicial Police, the Italian Guardia di Finanza and the Carabinieri.

Andrea Granelli
Founder, Kanso

Born in 1960, Andrea Granelli graduated with honours in Computer Science and completed postgraduate studies in Psychiatry as well as an Executive MBA from McKinsey. He is passionate about leadership, talent development and innovation, with a strong interest in the relationship between new technologies and the humanities, and is an advocate for addressing the darker sides of digitalisation.

He is currently President of Kanso, a consultancy firm specialising in innovation and change management. For many years, he has worked on innovation-related topics, beginning as a researcher at the CNR (National Research Council of Italy), and later holding roles in companies such as CESI, Montedison, Fimedit, and McKinsey.

In 1996, he joined Telecom Italia, where he founded tin.it — serving as its CEO for several years — and later became CEO of the group’s R&D and Venture Capital unit (Tilab).

He has served as a member of the CNR’s evaluation committee, the National Council of the WWF, Scientific Director of Domus Academy (International School of Design), and President of the Olivetti Historical Archive Association.

Granelli is a regular contributor to books, newspapers and journals on topics related to innovation, with a particular focus on the digital revolution and its broad social implications, including its critical aspects. He also contributed the entry “Communication Technologies” to the new Treccani Encyclopaedia of Science and Technology.

He co-founded PerLaRe (with Flavia Trupia), an association dedicated to reviving the art of rhetoric, and Venture Thinking (with Daniele Di Fausto, Marta Bertolaso, Elena Granata and Carlo Marini), a foundation committed to rethinking and redesigning workspaces and work environments.

Pedro Leão
Senior Teaching Fellow in Corporate Strategy, AESE Business School (Lisbon) & CEO, Plenitude
Pedro Leão holds a degree in Electronic Engineering with a specialisation in Automation, Energy and Electronics from FCTUC/University of Coimbra. He completed postgraduate studies in Information Systems Management (IST), followed by an Executive MBA from AESE/IESE and further postgraduate studies in Renewable Energy Management at UCP.
He is currently the General Director of PLENITUDE, an international company operating in the energy sector. He teaches Corporate Strategy at AESE Business School in Lisbon, the first European school affiliated with IESE, where he also serves as the director of the DEEP Programme, a fully online course. Additionally, he leads the Project Management Seminar at AESE.

Gaetano Vecchione

Associate Professor, University of Naples Federico II & Board Member, IPE Business School Foundation

Gaetano Vecchione is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Naples Federico II, where he teaches International Applied Economics and Regional and Global Economy. He holds a Master’s degree in Economics from New York University and a PhD from the University of Naples Parthenope.

His research interests focus primarily on the drivers of regional economic development such as innovation, institutional quality, and human capital, and their relationship with the business world.

His work has been published in prestigious journals including Regional Studies, Journal of Regional Science, Spatial Economic Analysis, and Metroeconomica.

He is Associate Research Fellow at c.MET05 – the Italian National Centre for Applied Economic Studies – and at the Global Labor Organization (GLO). He serves on the editorial boards of L’Industria and Rivista Economica del Mezzogiorno, is a scientific advisor to SVIMEZ – the Association for the Development of Industry in Southern Italy – and is Vice President of the IPE Business School.

Fabio De Felice

Entrepreneur – Founder of Protom SPA & Professor, University of Naples Federico II

Fabio De Felice is the founder of Protom SPA, a company established in 1995 and now a leader in digital transformation with over 200 employees. He is also Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Naples "Parthenope".

He graduated with honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II and earned a Master’s in Total Quality Management from Sheffield Hallam University (UK).

He is a member of the Italian delegation to the B20 task forces and serves on the technical-operational committee of the Campania Aerospace District (DAC). He is affiliated with the Italian Cluster of Smart Manufacturing and is the founder of AHP Academy, a non-profit association dedicated to decision-making methodologies.

He coordinates various research projects on production systems and quality management and is the author of several books – both nationally and internationally distributed – focusing on strategic thinking, decision making, innovation, and World Class Manufacturing.

"The added value of IPE in my Executive journey was its ability to understand my needs, explain them clearly, and convince me that the time invested would bring great value to both myself and my company."

Mirko De Falco – CEO, Farvima Medicinali S.p.A.

"Executive education is essential for us entrepreneurs, and for that I can only thank IPE. Finally, we also have top-level Executive courses here in Naples."

Giovanni Lombardi – President, Gruppo Tecno

"I’m taking home a valuable learning experience because, often, caught up in day-to-day tasks, we neglect training. Beyond the opportunity to step away from operations and dive into entrepreneurial themes, the network created gives you the chance to share insights with fellow entrepreneurs, learn from each other, and grow."

Luca D’Avino – Founder, MYB – Move Your Business

"I’ve gained methods and tools to support the growth of my company through effective strategic planning."

Carmine Esposito – CEO, EPM Srl

"I had the opportunity to engage with entrepreneurs and managers whose perspectives opened my mind to new ideas and opportunities."

Alberto De Matteis – CEO, Elcon Megarad S.p.A.

"A comprehensive training experience with a global and cross-sector vision, which has practically supported me in my day-to-day work within the company."

Ettore Morra – General Manager, So.Farma.Morra Group

"I believe networking is one of the key elements for any company wishing to overcome challenges and seize the opportunities offered by the market. Thanks to IPE Business School, I’ve had the chance to connect with other entrepreneurs and build strong professional relationships."

Simona Lanzilo – CEO, Telegestioni Srl