Lucio de Risi (born 1953) is an Italian electrical engineer, founder and CEO of MEGA International Srl.
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, 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. 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]
While a student in Philadelphia, he met VĂ©ronique, his future wife. He moved to Paris with her and launched MEGA International in the French capital.