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

MEGA International Srl. MEGA International is a French software company founded by Lucio de Risi in 1991 in Paris in France as a spin off from Cap Gemini, and is known for the modeling tools, in the domain of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Governance Risk and ...

Biography

De Risi's father and grandfather were shoemakers. De Risi graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Napoli, nowadays

University of Naples Federico II The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

. In 1981 he received his Master's from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

, where he studied after being awarded a scholarship from the

Fulbright Association Established on February 27, 1977, the Fulbright Association is a private, nonprofit organization whose members are Fulbright Program alumni and friends of international education. The association supports and promotes international educational and ...

, with the thesis entitled ''A System for a Total Matching of Stereo Pairs of Images.'' After graduation De Risi started working for a small consulting firm in the software industry in Paris that was eventually acquired by

Cap Gemini Capgemini SE is a multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Paris, France. History Capgemini was founded by Serge Kampf in 1967 as an enterprise management and data processing company. The compa ...

. He spun off the small firm from Cap Gemini and created

. He developed the company into a leading supplier of tools for business modeling, and enterprise architecture modelling.Anupindi, Nagesh V., and Gerard A. Coady. ''Enterprise Architecture Turnaround.'' Trafford Publishing, 2011.

Personal life

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.

Selected publications

* De Risi, Lucio.
A System for a Total Matching of Stereo Pairs of Images
'' University of Pennsylvania (1981).

References

1953 births Living people Italian computer scientists Italian chief executives University of Naples Federico II alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni {{Italy-business-bio-stub