Who we are

Markus Venzin is an expert on growth strategies with a focus on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship. He has supported CEOs and senior executives from a variety of industries to design and execute corporate as well as business strategies. Markus combines the structure and process competence needed to manage complex business development programs with the creativity and flexibility needed to create new ideas. Markus Venzin is currently the CEO of EHL Group, the world’s leading Hospitality Business School. Before that, he was a Professor of Global Strategy at Università Bocconi and Dean of Innovation. In his long experience as a management consultant, speaker, and entrepreneur, Markus has learned to apply research results to business issues.

Giovanni Berti is an entrepreneur, a consultant and a lecturer in strategy and entrepreneurship at SDA Bocconi School of Management. After graduating from Bocconi University with a master of science in management, he started his carrier in management consulting specializing in extraordinary operations. Here his work was focused in strategic planning and supporting client’s M&A activities. After 3 years in consulting, he joined his family business, a leading company in the wine industry as business developer. In 2015, Giovanni attended the Master in Business Administration of SDA Bocconi. After the MBA, he joined the Claudio Demattè Research Division of SDA Bocconi and dedicate his research activity to strategic innovation. Giovanni’s experience as a consultant gave him the ability to understand needs and structure problems. His experience as an entrepreneur made him pragmatic and solution oriented.

Massimo is a Professor of Practice at Bocconi University, where he also leads the Digital Tech practice at Bocconi 4 Innovation (B4I).
He is Vice Chairman of Intrum, the joint venture in credit management space set by Intrum and Intesa, in Italy. Moreover, he is Chairman of Prima.it.
Massimo retired from Goldman Sachs in 2021 where he was a Partner since 2010. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Massimo was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan in London from 1993 to 2006. From 1988 to 1993, he worked at Credito Italiano.

Graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1979. He later obtained a Master of Science (M.S.) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Electrical Engineering – Computer Aided Design & Optimization from the University of California in Berkeley, US. He has served as Chief Strategy Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Prysmian Group S.p.A., a world leader in the production of cables for the energy, telecommunications and optical fibres sectors. In the last 20 years he has held several positions, first at Pirelli S.p.A. (Energy Cable sector) and later at Prysmian Group S.p.A., playing a central role in the team that managed Prysmian’s acquisition of the Energy Cable sector of Pirelli S.p.A. in 2005, its listing in 2007, and its current configuration, resulting from the acquisitions of Draka and General Cable, completed respectively in 2011 and 2018. Before that he spent 12 years at Magneti Marelli, mostly in the Electronic Systems division, until he became its Managing Director. And before that, he served as Technical Advisor to the Managing Director of Honeywell Information System.

Srinivas ‘Srini’ Siripurapu received his Doctor of Philosophy in Chemical Engineering from North Carolina State University USA. His graduate research focused on polymer blends and alloys, structure property relationships of polymers, polymer rheology, nanomaterials and supercritical fluids. Srini joined General Electric Company after graduating from NC State and held multiple roles of increasing responsibility in product development and technology innovation. He served as their Global Product Technology Manager for the Specialty Polycarbonates Business. While at GE, he completed his Design for Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. He moved to General Cable Corporation and went on to serve as Vice President of Global Technology with responsibility for the Research & Development and Engineering functions of the company. Srini currently serves as Chief R&D Officer of Prysmian Group the world leader in the energy and telecom cable systems industry. In his current role he is responsible for the company’s world wide R&D strategy, R&D talent development and Innovation pipeline. Srini has a proven track record of building high performance teams and successful customer driven innovations in Energy, Electrical Infrastructure, Communications, Automotive, Aerospace, Healthcare and Consumer Electronics market segments. Srini is active in industry organizations in North America as well as Europe and he mentors young scientists and engineers through these professional organizations. Srini is passionate about innovation and is an inventor on over 50 patent applications.