Executive Master in Luxury Hotel Management​

Former Member of the Board of Directors at Grand Hotel Excelsior Vittoria, he is currently Senior Partner at MODE Consulting Srl, a consulting company specialized in transport and tourism industries. Senior professional with 30 years of professional experience. Has worked in large organizations (Deloitte, Trenitalia Italian railways) and small start-up businesses. Skilled in strategic planning, service marketing, organizational design and capacity building with direct experience in hospitality, tourism, travel, railway operations, asset management, corporate governance. Lecturer at different educational institutions. Geographical areas of work experience: Italy and West Europe, Africa, Asia.

Co-Founder & Business Development at Divinea. Divinea is a marketplace for wine tourism, making wineries and wine experiences more accessible to everyone. Among his experiences, he worked as a business innovation & development manager at E-Novia, (a unique institution in the Italian industrial landscape, an ‘Enterprise Factory’ which assists and optimises the transformation of research into products, researchers into entrepreneurs and start-ups into companies).  He also was Business Development Manager at YAPE (Your Autonomous Pony Express), is an e-Novia Portfolio Company that has given birth to the first self-driving, electric and ultra-light urban delivery vehicle entirely designed and built in Italy.

With a Master's Degree in Hospitality Administration & Management at Cornell University, he is now Owner of the Company Suite24, a consulting company dealing with Hotel Business Development and Management. He is also Cluster Operations Director at Bianconi Ospitalità, a hotel and restaurant group in Norcia from 2 centuries, Furthermore, he has over 20 years of experience in the managerial sector working in various hotels.

Senior Trainer, Speaker and Coach. He is President of the Lazio Delegation of Aif (Ass. Italiana Formatori), a nonprofit organization founded in 1975, which includes more than 2,000 consultants and business leaders throughout Italy, professionals in training, organizational strategies and learning and development processes. He is a qualified coach and NPL professional.

Rosalba holds a Master's degree in Personal & Business Coaching and another in Game Management Training. She has training in Mindfulness, Career, and Team Coaching and began her career as a Recruiter and Coach at the University of Rome Tre. She continued there as a Pedagogy Subject Expert and Master's Teacher for HR Professionals. Currently, she works as a Freelance Business and Personal Coach, as well as a Coach and Teacher for the Master's in Human Resources Management and Administration at the University of Niccolò Cusano. Rosalba is also an Associated Certified Coach with the International Coach Federation and a Mindfulness Facilitator.

With a PhD in Statistics, Raffaele has 20 years of experience in Consulting and Data Science. He started as a Junior Consultant at SLIM (Statistical Learning and Information Management), and then worked as a Researcher and Trainer for the University of Naples Federico II. Subsequently he took on the role of Freelance Consultant and Trainer, working for KENOBI Srl, Ducati Motor Holding, the National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT), SIAE (for Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence), Visiant, Accenture Analytics (for Predictive Analytics). In the meantime, he was Pre-sales Engineer and Product Specialist for the KXEN division at Gruppo DaMan srl.

He has worked in ICT for a long time, first holding specialized roles, and, from 1987 onward, that of manager of technical staff, working groups, and small, medium, and large projects. In 1999 he was certified by the Project Management Institute as a PMP® Project Management Professional. He is a member of PMI® and the Central Italy Chapter. He is currently involved in professional training in the field of Project Management. He has a Master's Degree in Education with a focus on "Adult and Continuing Education Sciences." He is a member of the Italian Association of Trainers where he participates in the work of the Community of Practice "Professionals Trainers of Professionals."

Global Management Group S.r.l.

Manager specialized in the negotiation and management of Commercial Networks, with consolidated experience in the Air Transport and Industrial Construction sectors. He is one of the first Italian Managers whose CV has been certified by RINA Services and sponsored by FEDERMANAGER. Over the past 32 years he has been in managerial activities, including 19 years in Alitalia, managing negotiations in almost all European countries, in many Asian and South American countries, and in the USA. He currently follows SME Business Development projects in Europe and the US as Export Manager. He is Senior Partner of Ambire, and Temporary Export Manager for Internationalization.

Wine Educator & Hospitality Consultant for traditional and sustainable catering. He has 10+ years of experience in the world of catering as Founder, Owner and Manager of various restaurants (Ristorante Sabatini, Trattoria Cavolo Nero, Ristorante Dolce Vita, etc.). Since 2004 he is a faculty member of FUA Apicius Apicius International School of Hospitality is the first International School of Hospitality in Italy,in Florence.

CEO at Gastronomik, consulting agency for the food industry. He worked as a consultant for companies such as: dry media srl ​​(for the television format “STREET FOOD BATTLE” for Coca-Cola Italia and Mediaset Italia1), FIERE DI PARMA SPA, EXPO MILANO. He has also worked for LOVEATWELL srl, as High-Quality Food Product Selector for the loveatwell.com e-commerce and librodeisapori.de. He also collaborated with Gambero Rosso, for reviews, and with Endemol Shine Group – Australia (AUS), for MASTERCHEF Australia – season 7 as Coordinator F&B and Hospitality – Italian Tour – Emilia-Romagna. Together with other professionals, he recently developed a tool (Sensory Box) to help patients regain their sense of smell and correct sensory deficits, after COVID19.

Technology entrepreneur focused on digital health and mental wellness, TEDx speaker and author. Biologist, PhD in Neuropharmacology with international academic research experience in pharmacology, drug development, organic chemistry and molecular biology. In 2014 he co-founded the Open BioMedical Initiative, a social impact nonprofit organization addressing disabilities through 3D printing, online collaborative design and community building. In 2017, he co-founded Softcare Studios, a digital health startup focused on improving the therapeutic experience for patients and optimizing hospital operations using immersive technologies and data tracking.

Alessandro Zucconi is a tourism and business management professional with solid experience in both academia and practice. A graduate of the University of Roma Tre and a specialist in digital tourism at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Zucconi has held teaching positions at prestigious institutions and worked as general manager at Hotel Grifo. Currently, he is the general manager of Multichain Software, leading innovative projects in the tourism technology sector. His skills range from product promotion and training to project management and destination marketing, reflecting an unwavering commitment to innovation and development in the tourism sector.