Biography

Davide Reina is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at SDA Bocconi School of Management, Milan, and SDA Bocconi Asia Center, Mumbai.

His main areas of interest are: innovation, customer centricity, new business models, strategic marketing. The industries he mostly focuses on are: circular economy, B2B, automotive and retail.

At SDA Bocconi he is responsible for the Value Delivery Program at the EMBAWE (Executive MBA Week-end) and is in charge of the marketing program for the Full-time MBA at the SDA Bocconi Asia Center. Furthermore, he teaches the marketing module of MISA (Master in Entrepreneurship and Business Strategy) and Master FIFA (International Master of Sport Management), and he is responsible for the Retail Module of the MAFED (Master in Fashion, Experience and Design).

Over the years, he has managed and taught several workshops, executive courses and consulting projects in Europe, the US and China, for multinational companies operating in the energy and automotive sectors such as: Prysmian, ABB, Pirelli. Davide won the prize as best teacher of all MBA programs in 2010, and the prize as best professor of all executive courses in 2012.

He has written five books, several articles, and is currently writing about the topic of innovation and development for Corriere Innovazione (Corriere della Sera) and Il Sole 24 Ore.

From 1995 until 2006 he worked as a manager and director of multinationals, in Europe and China.

He is a member of the boards of directors in several Italian companies, and a strategy advisor of some major international corporations
Davide earned a degree magna cum laude in Business Administration from Università Bocconi, and a Full Time International MBA from Vlerick Business School in Belgium.

He speaks and writes fluently in both English and French. He is a passionate traveler and runner. He lives in Milan, is married and has a daughter.