Michele Villa: Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer

He was a Director at DuPont Sustainable Solutions (DSS) between 2015 and 2018, leading the Global Practice Leaders team and the Center for Knowledge Management (CKM) located in India. He was also responsible for DSS operations in Australia and New Zealand and led the global digital services offering. Michele has 30 years’ experience providing environmental, health & safety and social impact consulting services to the oil & gas, mining, manufacturing and public service sectors across Europe and Australia. Prior joining DuPont, Michele was a Partner at EY and ERM (Environmental Resource Management). An expert at integrating environmental issues into the long-term financial success of organizations, Michele’s areas of specialization include identifying risk, improving business performance and implementing best practice for future emissions trading, environmental and health and safety management systems, sustainability programs and waste management.

Michele was a member of the Italian Environmental Economist Association and developed researches for the Association of Management Studies at Catholic University of Milan. He was guest lecturer on Climate Change, Sustainability Reporting, Environmental Auditing and Waste Management at Curtin University and UWA of Perth Australia, and at Bocconi University and Polytechnic University of Milan.

Danilo Bucchieri: Founding Partner and Chief Strategies Officer

Danilo has 35 years’ experience in ICT as business consultant, director, MD and CEO of multinational companies, entrepreneur of several innovative startups.In 2001 he co-founded Visiant Galyleo, later became Indra Italia, the Italian subsidiary of Intra Sistemas S.A., where he served as CEO and Managing Director until 2014. Since 2014 he has founded and co-founded several success start-ups. In particular in 2017 founded Artemisia FZE (in the United Arab Emirates), which invented and developed an artificial intelligence software solution, based on advanced machine learning algorithms, to extract significant financial information from alternative data sources, forecasting relevant modifications in the stock trends and volatility, corporates events and issuing risk management signals.

Danilo is an expert in the development of innovative ITC enterprises, with a particular experience in strategies and in the development in international markets.

Paolo Baroni: Partner and Chief Research & Development Officer

Paolo is an applied mathematics specialist with 15 years of experience in several domains with a focus on R&D. His main skill is understanding and modelizing problems in different specific domains and solving them using modern statistical/mathematical techniques including AI. In the last years he was partner/founding partner in several start-up mainly in the FinTech industry and quant consultant for different entities in the financial/real estate industry. He made several projects in cooperation with Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Lugano and was Adjunct Assistant Professor in Advanced Corporate Finance at LUISS University. Paolo hold a degree in Physics and an MBA

Alberto Rosso: Partner and Health & Safety Technical Director

Alberto is the Founder of AR19, Senior Advisor EHS Corporate, Safety and Accelerated Learning Trainer with 20 years of industrial and consulting experience in environment, health and safety. He has academic and professional skills in Environmental Sciences, Psychological Sciences and Occupational Safety applied to industry and organizational strategies. His mission includes risk identification, business performance improvement, tailored strategies development aimed to prevent serious injuries and fatalities in workplaces and environmental impacts. He has developed innovative tools in organizational safety culture improvement, leadership, environmental engagement, Human Factors, coaching, talent development, management systems, digitization and design of predictive KPIs. He has been collaborating with Federchimica as member of the WG Health and Safety in the Workplace and as Responsible Care speaker on “Psychology and influence of behaviour for safety at work and in emergency management”.

He is a lecturer at the Master of Advanced Training School of Ethics and Safety at the Catholic University of Milan, in the field of Safety and Security. He has been team leader and Principal Consultant at ERM, operating in automotive, chemical, pharmaceutical, EPC, manufacturing, Oil&Gas, Power, Retail and Waste Management sectors. He is TTI® analyst of behaviors, motivators and communication styles. He deals with role modeling and talent development for critical roles and positions in health and safety and management of change. He gained extensive experience in environmental and health and safety crime prevention programs and protocols, due diligence, compliance audits. During his career he has worked at Enel, IBM, Geodis Logistics.