Project manager with experience in strategy, operations, and business expansion. Skilled in design, digital content creation, social media marketing, and making good-looking pitch decks.

Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Swiss Applied Science University of Canton Vaud (HEIG-VD) and Expert at InnoSuisse (Swiss Commission for Innovation).

Active in Information and Communication Technology since 1985. Started as an Analyst and Enterprise Software developer at IBM and Apple systems agents, after six years I came back to study and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science.

As an entrepreneur, I succeeded in leveraging my research results into an innovative product in the area of Customer Interaction Analytics.

I am a Leadership and Business Scaling Expert for fast growing businesses, such as Startups, Scaleups and SMEs.

My mission is to help aspirational individuals to grow their self-efficacy in the areas of Leadership and Business Scaling. This enables fast growing young companies to scale through applying the right leadership and scaling techniques in a sustainable and self-efficient way.

Having acted in various key leadership roles in the last more than 20 years, from big multinational organizations to SMEs to dynamic Startups, I have clearly seen that most young teams actually fail due to 'people related' issues of various kinds.

Max is an entrepreneur and a lawyer both at Kellerhals Carrard and Seed Up. He strongly believes that legal can be used a strategic tool for start-up and help its clients mainly in preparing and negotiating their financing rounds and structuring incentive plans.

Emanuele, passionate about innovation and technologies, owns the first Olivetti PC with a green monochrome screen in the Matrix code style at the age of 4. From then on, his curiosity desire for knowledge pushed him to use innovation, day after day, constantly fueling the desire to deepen it, both in business and in private life.

From Sicily, he moved to Milan. He graduated from Bocconi University with Business Administration specialization in Corporate Finance with a thesis on the Hi-Tech sector and the valuation of intangible assets.

For over 16 years, Emanuele has been working in management consulting to redefine business models, digital transformation, optimization of business processes, change, and project management.

He is an expert in finance, data analysis, forecast models to support business decisions and software development projects. He is a supporter of the Lean and Agile methodology and the use of AI and ML to support business projects and processes.

He has almost always worked outside the national borders, taking part in consultancy firms such as Accenture, EY, PwC, and living permanently in England.

He follows international clients such as ENI, Unilever, Ferrero, Nestlè, IREN, BT, Vodafone, Ferring, Shell, Louis Dreifus, Augusta Westland.

Today Emanuele continues to be an international consultant and support large multinational groups; he approached the world of start-ups and young entrepreneurs with a passion.

A supporter of the give back policy, Emanuele is also a mentor for recent Bocconi University and Milan Polytechnic graduates.

Friends and colleagues always recognize it as one of the first early adopters in digital.

In his spare time, he organizes adventurous intercontinental trips among strangers, acts as a deejay, loves sailing, deep-sea fishing, cooking, photography, and trying new technologies emerging on the market.