Nicola Bettio, has spent most of his career in management consulting at Arthur D. Little in Paris and Milan. Since 1993, he has been part of the Telecom, Information Technology and Multimedia Practice, and has built specific know-how in due diligence, strategic marketing and business planning in the consumer electronics, entertainment and telecom industries. During his career in Arthur D. Little, Nicola had worked with key executives on major management issues in blue chips such as Bouygues Telecom, Daewoo Electronics, Fiat Group, Fininvest, France Telecom, Omnitel, Telecom Italia, Thomson, STET, etc.. He has twice been awarded the Star Case Award by the President of Arthur D. Little International for outstanding contribution to consulting projects.

In 1999 he was hired by Thomson, one of the world's largest consumer electronics vendors, to set-up and run a cross-divisional strategic marketing unit aimed at exploring opportunities arising from the emergence of new digital technologies and products. During his tenure in the company, Nicola launched and ran several company-wide initiatives, including the Strategic Marketing Forum, a regular meeting of 40 top managers to develop a common perspective of the evolution of digital industries and the Joint Marketing-Technology Forum, (in cooperation with the head of corporate R&D) where marketing and research / product development spearheads developed common future product roadmaps to exploit industry macro-trends.

Nicola earned an Economics and Business Administration degree from Università Bocconi in Milan and an MBA from INSEAD. Nicola, a native Italian speaker, is also fluent in English and French.