Europass Curriculum Vitae

Personal information First name(s) / Surname(s) Fabio Bresciani

Nationality Italian

Gender Male

Work experience Dates September 2019 – to date Occupation or position held Adjunct Professor Main activities and responsibilities In charge of the first module of the “Sicurezza Informatica” (Cybersecurity) class, covering software, web-specific and hardware vulnerabilities, principles of secure software engineering, network and people attacks, privacy and anonymity, and fundamentals of enterprise cybersecurity . Name and address of employer University of

Dates April 2019 – to date Occupation or position held Senior Manager, Applied Intelligence, Financial Sector, , Greece, Central Europe Main activities and responsibilities In charge of go-to-market, program management and tenders on Advanced Analytics and Machine Learning engagements. Focus is on Bank and Insurance companies in Italy. I also develop and promote the Responsible AI initiative in Italy, of which mitigation and prevention of cybersecurity attacks to machine learning models is a key pillar. Name and address of employer Accenture, Digital - Applied Intelligence

Dates July 2015 – April 2019 Occupation or position held Managing Consultant, Cloud and Cognitive Solutions Main activities and responsibilities In charge of developing the use cases and engaging mainly banks and insurances in Italy on innovative projects. One engagement with a major bank in Italy involved the deployment of a state-of- the-art cybersecurity research asset, that leveraged advanced statistical techniques to identify suspect patterns out of million events. I have also driven initiatives on cloud infrastructure (IaaS), platform-as- a-service and SaaS solutions (including Cloud Security solutions). Worked at the Fintech startup incubator F10@Zurich to build the new Watson based Prospect & Customer engagement mobile application, adopting Design Thinking and Agile/Scrum methodologies. Name and address of employer IBM, Cloud & Cognitive Integrated Unit

Dates October 2014-June 2015 Occupation or position held Executive Assistant to the Chairman and CEO of IBM Italy Main activities and responsibilities In charge of assisting the Chairman and CEO in his daily job, promoting the IBM vision, managing the organisation (including operations and sales execution), coordinating with worldwide and European leadership, and deploying the new organisation model that included the setup of the newly formed IBM Security division. Contributed to cultivate business relationships with Clients, business partners and other stakeholders, and contributed to design and evaluate several strategic transformation projects (both business and organisational) deployed during 2015, working closely with IBM Italy’s top management. Name and address of employer IBM

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Dates 2009 – September 2014 Occupation or position held Senior Consultant, Business Intelligence & Performance Management Main activities and responsibilities I worked in the roles of project manager, technical leader and enterprise architect of BI / BPM / Data warehouse (including Big Data) projects, involving both national and multinational Clients, mainly in banking and industrial sectors. Experience in leading delivery teams, managing Client relationships and expectations, and designing and delivering solutions covering the full cycle. Developed solutions adopted the “Security by design” and “Privacy by design” principles, used OWASP principles and applied data governance and auditing frameworks. In 2013, I was selected to be IBM Italy’s industry delegate at the Very Large Database conference (vldb.org). Name and address of employer IBM, Global Business Services – Big Data & Analytics Unit

Dates 2006-2009 Occupation or position held Consultant, Predictive Modeling & Optimization Main activities and responsibilities Performed design and implementation of several operation research initiatives, and pioneered successfully the deployment of the first retail price optimization solution in Italy. Designed and implemented operations research / prescriptive analytics solutions for demand planning, plant scheduling and many-products cargo loading. Name and address of employer IBM, Global Business Services

Lecturing experience University Ambassador for the since 2015 for my employer. Regular lecturer on business, innovation and technology topics at the University of Brescia (e.g. AI/Machine Learning, Big Data technologies, Data Warehouse design, etc); guest lecturer at Università Cattolica, Polytechnic University of , Università Luigi Bocconi, and CUOA Foundation of Vicenza.

Education and training

Dates 2014-2017 Title of qualification awarded Master of Business Administration with Distinction (Executive Distance Learning MBA), ranked in the top 10% of the class. Master dissertation on “Applying cognitive technology to improve cybersecurity: an Italian case study” which assessed the level of awareness and preparation, and described how Italian small and medium enterprises can address the cybersecurity risks. Name and type of organisation University of Warwick – Warwick Business School, UK providing education and training

Dates 2003-2006 Title of qualification awarded Master's degree (Laurea Magistrale), Magna cum Laude - Computer Science Engineering Original thesis on cybersecurity, mainly network and software security (Design and implementation of a lightweight honeypot). During the thesis a novel statistical approach was developed to analyze an attacker’s behavior and assess the degree of risk for the network. It also allowed to collect evidence in order to classify whether the attack was targeted or opportunistic. In addition, it featured a deep integration with Linux authentication and authorization modules and development of an OpenSSH plugin. Name and type of organisation University of Brescia, Italy providing education and training

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Dates 2000-2003 Title of qualification awarded Bachelor’s degree (Laurea di Primo Livello) - Information Engineering Winner of the “best thesis” award from University of Brescia, for the design, implementation and certification of one of the first certified electronic email (PEC) solutions based on the Italian government’s specifications. The thesis leveraged the “Security by design” principles and applied state of art techniques for prevention of tampering and unauthorized access to the service. Name and type of organisation University of Brescia, Italy providing education and training

Dates 1995-2000 Title of qualification awarded Secondary Education degree with scientific orientation (Diploma di Maturità scientifica), mark 100/100 Name and type of organisation Liceo Scientifico Statale N. Copernico, Brescia providing education and training Mother tongue(s) Italian

Other language(s) English Self-assessment Understanding Speaking Writing European level (*) Listening Reading Spoken interaction Spoken production English C1 C2 C2 C2 C2

Organisational skills and - Organisational management experience developed in my role as Executive Assistant to the IBM competences CEO and Chairman. - Project management and team leading experience with diverse and international teams (including vendors and Client resources) on many strategy and innovation projects (including “first of a kind” in Italy), leveraging also Agile techniques

Technical skills and competences - Security tools for discovering and managing software vulnerabilities such as static and dynamic source code analyzers, disassemblers and kernel and user-level debuggers. - Platforms and solutions architectures: AI/Cognitive (Watson), Business Intelligence (Cognos BI / Cognos Analytics) & Data Visualization/User Experience Design, Business Performance Management (Cognos TM1 / Planning analytics), Data warehousing and data integration, Big Data and Analytics (including high-performance hardware appliances such as IBM Pure Data / Netezza), IBM Cloud/Bluemix. - Database modeling and data integration architectures and tools

Other information - Member at Aspen Institute, as Aspen Junior Fellow until 2017, Former Aspen Junior Fellow since 2017 (www.aspeninstitute.it) - Expert delegate to UNINFO and member of the ISO/IEC SC42 Governance of Artificial intelligence committee - Member of the Ambrosetti program “Leaders of the Future”, 2013-2014 - Qualified at national level to practice as an engineer (“Esame di stato”)

Driving licence B

CV updated on 30th May 2020

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