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Riccardo Picca

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Senior Director, Global Digital Transformation and Business Excellence at Thermo Fisher Scientific
📍 Italy

Riccardo is the Senior Director of Global Digital Transformation at Thermo Fisher Scientific, driving manufacturing capacity and profitability through digital innovation. He holds an MBA from SDA Bocconi and serves on multiple advisory boards, including for Microsoft. Colleagues describe him as innovative, dynamic, structured, and results-oriented.

Outside of his primary role, Riccardo is deeply involved in academia as an Extended Faculty Professor at POLIMI Graduate School of Management, teaching strategy, M&A, and sustainability. He is a multilingual, geographically mobile executive who contributes his expertise across various industries, including serving as a jury member for pharmaceutical digital awards.

He is slated to speak at the IoT Tech Expo Global in London in February 2026.

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Current Role
Senior Director, Global Digital Transformation and Business Excellence
Job Level
Senior
Location
Italy
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Digital Transformation
Leads global digital transformation at Thermo Fisher and speaks on how digitalization enables new organizational models and empowers human capital at events like Festival Città Impresa.
Sustainable Operations
Passionate about sustainability transformations, he has led programs to reduce CO2 emissions and was featured on a podcast discussing the sustainability transformation at Sandvik.
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Career

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Senior Director, Global Digital Transformation and Business Excellence
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Advisory Board Member - Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing
Microsoft
Non-Executive Director (NED) | Advisory Board Member
MIPU srl
Extended Faculty Professor
POLIMI Graduate School of Management
AboutPharma Digital Award Jury
AboutPharma
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Education
3-2010 - 11-2011
Master Business Administration
SDA Bocconi
9-1996 - 2-2003
M.Sc. Mechanical Engineering
Politecnico di Milano
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