1. Nicola Mezzetti, Ph.D.
Born on 06/10/1976 in Lugo (RA), Italy
Address: via dei Mille 57 - 38122 Trento (TN) Italy
Mobile: +39 391 427 26 26 E-mail: nicola.mezzetti@gmail.com Web Page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolamezzetti
PROFILE
Management and organisational consultant expert in innovation management and digital transformation,
lecturer of Quality and Innovation Engineer at the University of Trento, Ph. D. in computer science. After more
than ten years of experience in the IT Industry (Wincor-Nixdorf, Conad Group, Engineering Group), most of the
times with responsibilities in R&D projects, since two years he is full time committed to innovation. After having
been employed in Tree as corporate innovation manager and senior mentor in TIM's #WCAP open innovation
program, he is now freelance in the field of digital transformation.
KEYWORDS: Innovation management, digital transformation, industry 4.0, quality management, customer
orientation, leadership, agile and lean methodologies, project management, pragmatism, positive thinking.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Innovation and Management Consultant, Freelance Dec 2015 - today
Freelance delivering consultancy services and professional training in the fields of innovation & transformation
management, quality management, business development.
Business Developer, Epoca srl Sep 2017 - today
Contributing to the definition and implementation of the company’s marketing strategy and in charge of
developing business opportunities.
R&D Project Manager, Tree srl Sep 2017 - today
In charge of managing the company’s R&D projects.
Professional trainer, ITT “G. Marconi” (Rovereto, Italy) Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Professional trainer on project management within the “Alta Formazione Professionale” education
program in mechatronics.
Temporary Manager, undisclosed client Dec 2015 - Dec 2016
Project & procurement manager in a Web 3.0 project aiming at realising a community platform
dedicated to the actors of the innovation ecosystem.
Digital Transformation Strategist affiliated to ESA Professional network Sep 2017 - today
As an affiliate to the ESA Professional network, he:
• contributes to the definition of new products and services and to the development of business opportunities
in the area of Digital Transformation;
• delivers consultancy services in the area of Digital Transformation.

2. Corporate Innovation Manager, Tree srl Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Tree (http://www.tree.it) is a company specialised in providing private and public organisations with strategic
and organisational consultancy on innovation, startups, and innovation ecosystems.
Mentor TIM #WCAP, TIM Group Apr 2016 - Aug 2017
Senior mentor for the startups accelerated within the TIM #WCAP program. He is supporting startups in
the application of the lean startup methodology and in identifying and developing business
opportunities. He has mentored a number of startups among which Artplace, Digital Metrix, Idesio,
Kopjra, Neurab, RE2N, Tomorrow Data.
Quality & Innovation Manager Sept 2016 - Aug 2017
Facilitating the successful deployment of innovation and continuous improvement initiatives within
consolidated organisations. In charge of assessing the company innovation needs and of defining and
managing innovation strategies and plans. He has collected interesting results both in terms of
acceptance of the proposed methodology (based on design thinking and on other quality engineering
methods and tools) and in terms of achieved objectives.
Engineering Group Jul 2010 - Sep 2015
The Engineering Group is the leading Italian company in providing system integration and consultancy services.
Engineering has a consolidated presence on all vertical markets and operates through its 4 business units (Public
Administration & Healthcare, Telco & Utilities, Industry & Services, Finance) supported by the Research and
Innovation Department. In 2014 the group reached 7400 employees and a consolidated revenue portfolio of
about 853 M€, with an EBIT- DA equal to 109M€.
R&D Project Manager, Engineering Tributi SpA Sep 2013 - Sep 2015
In the business unit R&D laboratory he leads the research activities in the functional area of welfare
and social policies and in the area of knowledge extraction and integration from non-structured
information sources.
Team Leader and Solution Architect, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA Jul 2010 - Sep 2013
Employed in the context of a large scale IT service management project (maintenance and evolution of
45 e-Government application services and management of about 8000 deployment instances over the
357 local government organisations of Regione Emilia-Romagna). In charge of the governance of the
production unit’s ITSM processes and of leading software development projects. Under his lead, the
following achievements have been obtained:
• Realisation of DossiER, a distributed architecture enabling the functionalities of unified and
integrated search and of retrieval over all the informations produced and shared by local
government organisations (http://www.lepida.it/cosa-facciamo/servizi/dossier).
• Realisation of an accessible Web portal integrating ITSM services needed for supporting the
production unit’s activities (http://suas.lepida.it);
• Realisation of a business intelligence solution for monitoring the impact of the deployment of
eGov applications, in terms of indicators such as the number and working state of application
instances, employment, training.

3. IT Architect and Project Manager, Di-Tech SpA May 2008 - Jul 2010
Di.Tech SpA, an unlisted company owned by Conad, is one of the main Italian companies in the area of
information systems and management consulting for the distribution, manufacturers of consumer goods and
logistics operators. The company's offer covers all the processes of the actors of the supply chain. In 2010 Di-
Tech reached 120 employees and a consolidated revenue portfolio of about 15 M€.
As part of a R&D team that had the goal of producing a commercial ERP for large-scale distribution (now
marketed under the name MORE) he is accountable for the realisation of the functions related with the sell-in
processes. The following results have been achieved under his lead:
• Realisation of MORE’ sell-in functions module
• Realisation of MORE’ simplified logistics functions module, to meet the needs of small warehouses and Cash
& Carry stores
• Realisation of MORE’ functions module for enabling order intake to sales
• Implementation of a service EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) utility service with data format syndication
capabilities
Software Engineering Team Leader, mEDRA srl Dec 2006 - May 2008
mEDRA is the European Agency for the DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) registration, owned by the Italian
Publishers Association (AIE) and the Inter-university Consortium for Automatic Calculation of North-Eastern
(CINECA). The company operates delivering added-value services built on the DOI infrastructure. Employed on
a number of internal R&D projects. Achievements:
• Realisation of the Actionable ISBN registration agency infrastructure specifications integrating mEDRA, Italian
Publishers Association, and Informazioni Editoriali business services
• Realisation of a workflow engine for supporting the mEDRA’s business processes
• Realisation of the mEDRA’s Accessible DOI Multiple Resolution services
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, University of Trento Sep 2014 - today
Contract professor of “Quality and Innovation Engineering”. Covered topics:
• Quality: Foundations of quality, customer focus and customer satisfaction, customer oriented design,
requirements engineering, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Total Quality Management (TQM), Six
Sigma, ISO 9000 Standard Family, Fault Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA), System Reliability, Statistical
Process Control (SPC).
• Innovation: Open innovation and closed innovation, Foundations of Innovation Management, Analysing
and Segmenting Markets, Analysing Competitors, Developing a Value Proposition, Problem/Solution fit,
Business Models, Lean Startup Method, Pitching, Product/Market fit, Preparing a Business Plan.
Post-doc Researcher, University of Trento Sep 2015 - Apr 2016
Post-Doc researcher on the topics of Smart Cities, Smart Communities, and Mobility-as-a-Service.

4. Assistant Professor, University of Bologna Sep 2002 - Sep 2006
Assistant professor of computer networks.
Research Assistant, University of Bologna Jul 2002 - Jan 2006
Research assistant in the 5th FWP European Research Project TAPAS (Trusted and QoS-Aware Provision of
Application Services, IST-2001-34069), researching in trust management in global computing environments and
in virtual enterprises.
PUBLICATIONS
✓Nicola Mezzetti, “Global computing: an analysis of trust and wireless communication”, Ph.D. Thesis, 2006
✓Nicola Mezzetti, Davide Sangiorgi, “Towards a Calculus For Wireless Systems”. Electronic Notes Theo-
retical Computer Science 158, 2006
✓Nicola Mezzetti, “Design and evaluation of a trust-aware naming service”. Journal of Computer System
Science & Engineering 20(6), 2005
✓Nicola Mezzetti, “A Socially Inspired Reputation Model”. Proceedings of European Public Key Infra-
structure Workshop (EuroPKI), 2004
✓Nicola Mezzetti, “Enabling Trust-Awareness in Naming Services”. Proceedings of Trust and Privacy iN
Digital Business (TrustBus), 2004
✓Nicola Mezzetti, “Towards a Model for Trust Relationships in Virtual Enterprises”. Proceedings of the 14th
International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'03), 2003
EDUCATION
Master Engineering in Management, Engineering Group Mar 2012 - Dec 2013
Topics: self development and self empowerment, public speaking, project management, economics, cor- porate
governance, HR management, leadership and complexity, creativity in organizations.
Scuola di Formazione Enrico della Valle, Engineering Group 2011
Topics: project management, ITIL v3 foundation, counseling techniques.
Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Bologna Mar 2003 - Apr 2006
Thesis on trust management and communication in global computing environments. Final exam: passed
Advanced School on Mobile Computing, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Sep 2003
Topics: Security for ubiquitous computing, Logical and phisical mobility, Models and calculi for mobility,
Wireless systems, Software development for mobile environments, Ad-hoc wireless networking, Certified code
for mobile computing.
European Global Computing Summer School, University of Edinburgh Jul 2003
Topics: Secure global computing, Type systems for resource control, Agents Interaction and Mobility, Pro- cess
mobility and types, UML for global computing.

5. M. Sc. in Computer Science, University of Bologna Oct 1995 - Jun 2002
Thesis on Trust Management in Virtual Enterprises. Final mark: 110/110 cum laude
✓ Achievement: Awarded with the “Monica di Bella” prize for the best M.Sc. Thesis in computer sciente
submitted in the academic year 2001/2002
INTERESTS
As a synthesis of his professional and academic experience he maintains a strong interest in organisation and
management fields. For the same reason he also maintains strong interest in applied research and innovation
management, both in private and in public-private settings.
✓ Achievement: Creator and program manager of the InnoTech event about innovation and techno- logy
transfer together with the Young Entrepreneurs group of Unindustria Bologna (2012).
Finally he has a strong interest in coaching and team building, which he grows by participating to volunteering
activities such as, for instance, career guidance workshops or events of social relevance (TEDx- Trento).
✓ Achievement: In the years 2014 and 2015 he organised and held three laboratories of career guidance: one
of them in cooperation with the University of Trento and the others with the parishes’ associations of the
Archdiocese of Trento.
I authorise the use of my personal data in accordance with Italian Privacy Protection Law (30/06/2003, n.
196/03).