Maurizio Beltrami
Strategy Adviser, Strategyn France
Locale: Monza, Italy and Zurich, Switzerland
Biography: Before joining Strategyn, Maurizio enjoyed a successful career in the electronics sector, where he built a competency managing innovation in the fields of convergence, consumer electronics, telecommunications and information technology. He has more than 30 years experience in the innovation field, working at Fiat, Philips Italy, Philips Consumer Electronics Netherlands, and Philips Semiconductors / NXP Switzerland.
During his career, Maurizio worked for the management team at Philips’s Italian division, where he founded a research and advanced innovation laboratory. Its mission was to strengthen the technological and scientific cooperation between the company and Italy’s academic and industrial research world. The laboratory was soon after incorporated into Philips’s research organization. He managed this laboratory for eight years while simultaneously representing the company in many strategic partnership initiatives in the innovation space. During this time, he served as president of the Italian consumer electronics association and as an executive board member of several research start-ups.
Later, he had international roles at the corporate level for Philips consumer electronics, playing an active part in determining the impact of the Internet on Philips’s consumer products and doing research for NXP Semiconductors (a company funded by Philips) to identify the unmet needs of users of mobile devices.
Maurizio believes his private sector experience helps give him good insight into clients and their needs.
In addition, he brings to Strategyn his intimate understanding of customers’ desire for breakthrough innovation solutions. He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Milano.
Personal: Married; one child living in London and working in the IT sector. My interests, in random order, are Aikido, motorcycles, sailing, hiking, biking, reading, computers and music.
One Thing People Do Not Know About Me: I hate vegetables.
Favorite Food / Contradiction: Risotto with porcini mushrooms is one of my favorite foods. Although, technically, they are vegetables too.
Major Irritant: People who already know everything.
Quote: Experience is a lamp hanging on your back. It illuminates only on the path that you have already covered. – Chinese Proverb
Last Great Book: Conjectures and Refutations by Karl Popper.