Nazareno Mario Ciccarello

Associate Professor at IE Business School

Multinational Development Manager – BFF Banking Group

Is an IE MBA 2008 and B.A. in Political Sciences from University LUISS in Rome, Italy.

His career started, training military platoon from Italy, heading to peace keeping operations to Kosovo and Albania. After having worked for different multinational companies in HR, Marketing and international business development roles, he have founded Functional Gums, a company specialized in value added functional chewing gums and confectionery products.

He is multinationals development manager at BFF Banking group.

At IE he is a speaker of entrepreneurship, he is VP of the IE Italy alumni club and he has been a keynote speaker in several countries. He have collaborated as well with FTIE Corporate Learning Alliance as a mentor for in-company business innovation projects Simultaneous to his professional career he have been a professional athlete (Olympic diving) for more than 20 years.

He is a native Italian speaker as well as fluent in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French and he still loves diving and volunteers part time as a diving coach for autistic kids.

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