Alessandro Di Fiore

In 1991, Di Fiore married Letizia and the couple had a son named Leonardo. Di Fiore was diagnosed with polycythemia vera in 1992, which progressed to myelofibrosis in April 2016 and he died on August 12th, 2021, at the age of 56, from complications related to his bone marrow transplant.

Between 2013 and 2015, he was on the Board of Directors of SIGG Switzerland Bottles AG, a Swiss manufacturing company with headquarters in Frauenfeld, Switzerland. He was also a member of the Harvard Business Review worldwide editorial board.

Di Fiore started Venture Consulting in 2000. Tefen, a consulting firm listed on the Tel Aviv stock exchange, purchased the company in 2008. In 2010, Di Fiore founded the European Centre for Strategic Innovation. In 2017, ECSI was named one of the Top 5 Global Leaders.

Di Fiore began his career in 1989 as a product manager at Colgate-Palmolive, where he was recognized in the YCMAD Global recognition program for contributing to the brand's success and making a difference to the organization at the age of 24. He then went on to work for Gemini Consulting where he was responsible for Life Sciences in continental Europe and then became a Managing Director for Italy, and worldwide director of its Market Focused Strategy Centre of Excellence.

Alessandro Di Fiore (Naples, March 6th, 1965 - Rome, August 12th, 2021) was an Italian entrepreneur, founder of ECSI, a consulting firm. He also served as the chairman of Harvard Business Review Italia. Di Fiore was best known for developing the “Insight-Driven” Organisation concept and writing the foreword to the book “Strategia Oceano Blu – Vincere senza Competere.”

Di Fiore was born on 6 March 1965 in Naples, Italy. Later he acquired a master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration from Federico II University. He was also a student of Harvard Business School, where he studied Leadership under a President Program.