Prof. Dr. Enrico Molinari, Digital Tech Transformation and Marketing Innovation Officer
Prof. Dr Enrico Molinari was born on 25th May 1975 in Milan (Italy). He is a game-changer and innovation omnichannel CMO marketing manager with financial services and capital market profile. He graduated in 2001 from the University of Pavia in Economics with full marks on the "Jean Monnet Chair" specializing in European Union studies with a thesis in finance on "Financial Management and Governance Models of Banking Foundations" (Supervisor: Prof. Dario Velo).
After his bachelor's degree, he specialized in international education (e.g. New York, Brussels, London) with many master's and in-depth advanced courses in omnichannel marketing innovation management. And in global communication strategies, digital transformation and disruptive emerging technologies, internationalization business and trade management, development of new company's products and services and European Commission Project Management.
Since 2018, he has obtained the most valuable certifications issued by public organizations and institutions for managing radical digital innovation and transformation processes and ecological transition of corporations, SMEs, institutions and professionals. Economist, journalist, international keynote speaker and panellist at public conferences and in global forums (150+ since 2018), economic columnist and scientific contributor (180+ since 2018), digital thought leader in corporations and ITA-EU Institutions, he is a university professor in economics and fintech, marketing innovation, digital transformation and business technologies and global on-offline media communication strategies.
He worked in an executive role in added value high‐tech multinational groups and global startups in banking and finance, automotive, industrial, renewables, engineering and ICT sectors (e.g. Hewlett-Packard, BNP Paribas, Saint Gobain, EU Commission). Today, he has in charge as team digital coordinator and innovation manager in the Italian Chamber of Commerce System on the Ligurian Riviera subsidiary branch for the access of Emerging Tech in companies (AI, IoT & IIoT, Blockchain, Big Data Analytics, CX, AR & VR and Digital Payments) according to Ministry of Development and Government GovTech Action Plans. He also goes to the market the agreements "eBay for Business - eCommerce for SMEs" and Google Digital Growth Programme "Digital Excellence" to help small and mid-sized companies grow businesses online.
At the same time, thanks to his experience in the finserv sector, he supports the go-to-the-market strategy of using risk capital resources to independent investors specialized in private equity and venture capital and innovative digital finance tools like equity crowdfunding invoice financing and minibond. Enrico was ranked by:
Onalytica - International Top Global Connecting Brands and Influencer Communities (New York, U.S.).
Research Media Foundation (Silicon Valley, U.S.).
Thinkers360 (Texas, U.S.).
GlobalData (London, UK).
Retail Banker International (London, UK).
Fintech News Switzerland (Zurich, CH).
And many international independent authorities and organizations as a top certified global influencer in Fintech, Finserv, Insurtech, PropTech, Marketing Innovation and Business Technology for Digital Transformation of banking and financial sector, a top opinion leader in the "Academics & Researchers" for the significant contribution to the adoption of IIoT in the industrial environment and top thought leader and expert-advisor for GovTech rethinking.
Enrico is Mentor for startups in the following:
HR field in Workplace Accelerator Fund, (Singapore).
Digital Health and Welfare Mentor for startups eHealth in the Accelerator Fund of DigitalWell Venture (Sweden and Norway).
Member of the INT - Institute National Tax Reform Commission and Advisor for Digital Transformation as support of Government activities (Italy).
Board Member of the Council of Orders, Colleges and Professional Associations of the Lombardy Region (Italy) is an expert in Government situations and decision rooms and the institutional Commission's activities.
Member of the independent evaluation Commission of performance, anti-corruption and transparency of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers - Public Function Dept. for national Authorities and Bodies (Italy).
Past Advisor in Directorate General Trade of European Commission for "Trade and Sustainable Development Agreements" and is a European Commission's Independent Expert and External Evaluator - DG Research and Innovation for EU Funds Calls and the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework - Next Generation EU (Brussels).
He is chosen as a brand voicer and business partner influencer by BNP Paribas, SwissCognitive, Paris Fintech Forum and VivaTech to amplify global strategies and is proud and honoured to have been named as Global Juror by Entreps for the evaluation of companies and organizations candidates to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs of the United Nation's Agenda 2030 (from 2019). In the associative sector, he is the spokesperson for the Confassociazioni' President and VP in Confassociazioni Banks and Finance for FinTech, PayTech, PropTech and Digital Payments, representing 700 associations, 1.300.000+ members and 220.000+ companies.
What is your favourite social media platform, and why?
LinkedIn because of #ConnectingPeople for competencies in the real world.
Tell us about you and your current role or area of interest.
Fintech, finserv, BNPL, digital payments, marketing innovation, digital transformation, business technologies, and AI.
What do you like about your career or area of focus?
Hobby: kidnap algorithms at least once a week and push them to tell him what will the future holds over an espresso coffee. All around me are innovation and the future.
What is the best advice you have ever received?
"Stay foolish, stay hungry", and you are always connected with People to reinvent the future for everyone.
What inspires you, motivates you, or helps you to move forward?
#TechForGood is the lighthouse of my daily professional and private life. Creating a valuable future will mean connecting humans with the innovation opportunities that will arrive.
What are you proud of in your life so far?
My family, my wife, my job and me.
What is your preferred way to meet new people/network?
Global presence/online/online connections and networking.
What skills or qualities do you feel have helped you?
Empathy, problem-solving, ethics, transparency, seriousness, morality and the next one I will discover I have.
What do you wish you had known when you started out?
Predictive analysis for many academic and corporation goals I centred on, but I would achieve in a better way with this added strategic value.
Who do you most admire in business, academic or creative circles and why?
The sharing ideas economy, because we will be nothing without a connection between humans and the future by ideas.
Outside of your professional/work area, what hobbies or interests do you have or what other areas of your life are of real importance to you?
My family, sport and sailing, tech for good for people and charity projects.
Has the pandemic had a positive or a negative effect on you and/or your business, and how have you managed it?
Solid a positive effect all around me and my jobs (I just lived SARS in Korea in 2003).
Do you have a mentor, or have you ever mentored anyone?
I have five to eight mentors in my life, and I create every day a bridge between them and me. Actually, I'm a global mentor in international organizations.
What advice would you have for someone looking to get into the same area of work or interests?
Study and run fast.
What do you feel is the most common reason for people failing or giving up?
Weakness of analysis and market strategy, but above all, not learn from their mistakes.
Is there a phrase, quote or a saying that you really like?
"The highest degree of sophistication is simplicity." - Leonardo da Vinci.
What companies, brands, or institutions do you like or do you think are getting it right?
Companies and Brands focus on true innovation that can be touched by hand and is for everyone. e.g. BNP Paribas, where I worked for many years, has a startup #finserv and #fintech products for young companies that do not have money or capital. But they already have a clear ESG roadmap, such as eliminating plastic and non-recyclable materials from their coffee rooms.
How do you define success, and what lessons have you learned so far that you could share with our audience/readership?
Preparing for the future means training to tell your experience at 360 degrees because history taught us that great opportunities and disruptive technological ideas always start from great crises. For example:
After the Black Death of the fourteenth century, we met the Renaissance, the invention of modern printing and maps. Long before Google!
After the Second World War, brilliant ideas were born in Italy, such as Nutella, Lambretta and Olivetti, top quality the whole world envies today.
Since the economic recession of 2008, disruptive companies in sharing economies, such as Airbnb and Uber, were born.
And for #NextNew? #ConnedctingPeople for #ConnectingFuture.