Marco Romano

Marco Romano (Ph.D.), is Full Professor of Management in Italy and serves as Professor in "Managmenet", “Reatailing and Ominichannel Management”, “Digital Innovation and Transformation Management”, "Marketing" and "Entrepreneurship and Business Planning", Department of Economics and Business, University of Catania.

He is visiting professor with Newcastle Business School at Northumbria University (UK). He was Visiting Scholar, Whitaker Institute for Business, Social Sciences and Public Policy (Formerly Centre of Innovation & Structural Change) National of University of Ireland, Galway Ireland. From 1998 to 2001 he was visiting Lecturer, Department of Management, Warrington College of Business, University of Florida (USA).

He has successfully secured research funding and is an experienced principal investigator leading large scale multi partner publicly funded research programs at European, National and Regional level.

He held several leadership positions including President of Science and Technology Park of Sicily, Board Member of APSTI -Italian network of scientific and technological parks, General Manager “Department of Economic Development” Regione Siciliana, and General Manager, Service Health Emergency 118 in Sicily.

He has delivered Keynote Presentations, Lectures, Seminars and Workshops nationally and internationally to business, policy and academic audiences, as well as delivering executive master classes on strategy development, entrepreneurship, innovation and technology transfer processes. Over the last two decades he has provided strategic consultancy and advice to SMEs, start-up firms, voluntary organizations and public sector organizations.