Presenters

  Manuel Carmona

Business Development Manager
Palisade EMEA, UK

Manuel joined Palisade UK Ltd in 2003 as European sales director. He currently works with Palisade’s European customers to help them implement @RISK and other Palisade products in their organisations. He has spent most of his career in Europe working in various management and business development positions in the software industry. In 1994 he received a diploma in Computing for Commerce and Industry from the University of Barcelona, and an MBA from the University of Westminster in 2002.

  Anna Maria Felici

President
PMI Rome Italy Chapter

President of PMI Rome Italy Chapter since 2011, Felici is the author of the book “Project Management: Istruzioni per l’uso” (Ed. Franco Angeli). She is also member of Italian ISO/PC 236 Working Group as Expert in WG2 Processes, and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) and Management Consultant.

Previously Felici acted as Managing Director and President of AMF & Partners (a company whose mission is to spread the PM culture through conferences and seminars, teaching and consulting, and papers and books), Project Leader and PM Officer (as a consultant for many companies managing complex programs), Executive and EDP Manager for Mediaset, and IT project leader for Unilever Italia, Rizzoli / Corriere della Sera and others.

Felici belonged to the 'PMBOK Guide 2004 Project Team' serving on the verification committee of the Italian edition. She also participated on the 'PMBOK Guide 4th and 5th Edition Project Team' as a content provider, and served on the board of CLUBTI (Italian ICT Manager association).

  Craig Ferri

Managing Director
Palisade EMEA & India

Craig Ferri was promoted to Managing Director of Palisade Europe in 2005, having joined as sales and marketing director for the region in 2003. During that time the company has shown year on year growth. In addition to increasing brand awareness in EMEA and ensuring outstanding customer service, Craig’s helm at Palisade EMEA has seen the company continue to expand throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and more recently into India. Craig built up nine years’ experience of sales and marketing roles in niche technology sectors prior to working at Palisade. Key positions included global marketing director at software company Infomax Incorporated, and European marcomms manager at networking company Anixter. Craig holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Marketing, and an MBA.

  Petro Fois

Risk Analysis Manager
Technip Italy S.p.A.

Fois graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome “La Sapienza.” He joined Technip in 1990 as Procurement Engineer. After various postings in Quality, Project, and Contract Management, in January 2011 Fois was appointed Risk Analysis Manager of Technip’s Region B, the business and operations division of Technip Group, where he manages On-Off Shore Projects in Eastern and Southern Europe, South America, Russia and Central Asia, Libya, and Egypt.

  Sergio Gerosa

Director of Programs and Professional Development
PMI Rome Italy Chapter

Director Supply Chain, Thales Alenia Space Italia
Thales Alenia Space Italia

Certified PMP® and IPMA Level A, Gerosa is Director of Programs and Professional Development for the PMI Rome Italy Chapter since December 2011. Gerosa also is Director Supply Chain at Thales Alenia Space Italia, having worked in the field of Project/Program/Portfolio Management, and in the Commercial Telecommunication Programs Unit, for two decades at Thales Alenia Space.

Gerosa teaches Masters-level Project Management at several Italian universities (LUISS Business School, University La Sapienza, and University Tor Vergata), and also serves as an internal trainer at Thales University and Thales Alenia Space. He is co-author of the book “Tecniche e Metodologie di Project Management - La gestione di programmi complessi con particolare riferimento al settore spaziale” (Aracne Editrice).

  Francesco Piccolo

Risk Manager for Civil and Defence Systems projects
Selex-ES

Piccolo graduated from the University of Naples in Electronic Engineering. He currently works with Selex-ES, a Finmeccanica company. He initially served as Test Engineer in the Manufacturing Department, then as System Engineer, and since 2008 as Risk Manager for Civil and Defence Systems projects. Piccolo is a certificated PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP^®)

  Sarah Sherry

Consultant and Trainer
Palisade Corporation

Sarah Sherry is a software consultant for Palisade Corporation. Sarah was previously a Senior Lecturer at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. She taught spreadsheet modelling techniques and programs in the DecisionTools Suite for over thirteen years, and was nominated for the Kelley School’s highest teaching award four times, and received it once. After graduating, many of her former students and teaching assistants seek her advice and counsel in their places of work (accounting firms, loan departments, manufacturing operations, hospitals, political campaigns, and so on), on difficulties ranging from issues with data integrity to troubles in spreadsheet modeling.

Sarah collaborated with Dr Wayne Winston on two Harvard Business School Press courses, Spreadsheet Modeling and Mathematics for Management, and she is currently co-authoring an introductory business analytics textbook, to be published by Indiana University Press.

Sarah earned an M.A. in Applied Linguistics at Indiana University and completed the required coursework for a Ph.D. in Linguistics.

  Sante Torino

Head of Major Programmes Risk Management department
PMI

Sante is the Head of Major Programmes Risk Management department in the Land & Naval Systems Division of Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company.

He is the author of papers about Project Management and Risk Management, presented to the IPMA World Congresses in 2008 (Rome), 2009 (Helsinki) and 2011 (Brisbane).

He is a member of the italian Working Group on Risk Management established at UNI - Ente Nazionale Italiano di Unificazione delle normative.

He is certified Senior Project Manager IPMA level B^® and PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP^®)