Lucio de Risi (born 1953) is an Italian electrical engineer, founder and CEO of MEGA International Srl.

Biography

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De Risi's father and grandfather were shoemakers.[1]

De Risi graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Napoli, nowadays University of Naples Federico II. In 1981 he received his Master's from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied after being awarded a scholarship from the Fulbright Association,[1] with the thesis entitled A System for a Total Matching of Stereo Pairs of Images.[2]

After graduation De Risi started working for a small consulting firm in the software industry in Paris that was eventually acquired by Cap Gemini.[1] He spun off the small firm from Cap Gemini and created MEGA International Srl.[3] He developed the company into a leading supplier of tools for business modeling,[4] and enterprise architecture modelling.[5]

Personal life

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While a student in Philadelphia, he met Véronique, his future wife. He moved to Paris with her and launched MEGA International in the French capital.[1]

Selected publications

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d Nava, Massimo (2019-12-07). "Lucio de Risi: "Col mio software supero i pregiudizi sugli italiani"". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). Retrieved 2022-10-28.
  2. ^ Wu, C. K., D. Q. Wangt, and R. K. Bajcsy. "Acquiring 3-D spatial data of a real object." Computer vision, graphics, and image processing 28.1 (1984): 126-133.
  3. ^ Nagesh V. Anupindi Ph. D., Nagesh V. Anupindi, Gerard A. Coady (2011). Enterprise Architecture Turnaround. p. 14
  4. ^ Layna Fischer (2002) Workflow Handbook, 2002. p. 385
  5. ^ Anupindi, Nagesh V., and Gerard A. Coady. Enterprise Architecture Turnaround. Trafford Publishing, 2011.