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Davide
Ricciardi

Co-founder & CEO · CuraMe
European Climate Pact Ambassador
Sustainability Researcher · M.Sc. 110/110
Panel Moderator · EU institutions

I build ventures, write frameworks and moderate rooms where complex problems get solved — at the intersection of healthcare, sustainability and European policy.

Davide Ricciardi at the European Climate Pact Annual Event, Brussels 2025
Brussels · 2025
EU Climate Pact Annual Event

I'm a founder, researcher and sustainability strategist who gets things done across contexts that don't usually talk to each other — startups, EU institutions, academia.

My M.Sc. in Economics of Innovation and Sustainability (110/110 con lode, Guglielmo Marconi) gave me the frameworks. Building two ventures — CuraMe and Sweeft Analytics — gave me the scars. Moderating a panel in Brussels for the European Climate Pact, contributing to ISSP programming and working as an EU Pact for Skills Leader taught me how change actually moves in institutional settings.

Right now I'm most focused on CuraMe: an AI-powered, privacy-first health platform I co-founded to tackle a system where 20.4 million patients in Italy alone face care coordination failures. The problem is real, the market is massive, and we're building something that professionals will actually want to use.

In parallel I continue publishing applied research on sustainability reporting and intellectual capital — because I think the best operators are also the best thinkers.

Profile snapshot
Davide Ricciardi
LocationItaly
EducationM.Sc. Economics · 110/110
VenturesCuraMe · Sweeft Analytics
EU rolesClimate Pact Ambassador
Pact for Skills Leader
LanguagesItalian · English (full professional)
Davide Ricciardi pitching CuraMe at RubikHub Final Demo Day, SmartCityLab Milan
Venture · Digital Health

CuraMe — AI-powered care coordination

Pitched at RubikHub Final Demo Day at SmartCityLab Milan. The problem is structural: millions of Italian patients navigate a fragmented system with no coordination layer. We're building the privacy-first platform that fixes it — for patients and professionals alike.

20.4M Patients at risk in Italy alone
AI · Health Privacy-first SmartCityLab Milan RubikHub Demo Day
Selected work

Projects & case studies

01 Healthcare
Venture · CEO & Co-Founder · 2025–Present
CuraMe — building the missing layer in Italian healthcare
Most healthcare platforms are built for hospitals, not for the 20+ million patients who fall through the gaps. CuraMe gives individuals a single, private space to manage their health journey — appointments, documents, care continuity — while reducing operational load for professionals. We're designing for the real world: low tech literacy, fragmented data, overworked doctors.
"The challenge isn't the AI — it's building a system that professionals trust and patients actually use."
Digital HealthAI ProductPrivacy DesignVenture
02 Sustainability
M.Sc. Thesis · Framework Design
Reinventing Green — stress-testing decisions before you make them
Most sustainability tools are post-hoc — they evaluate decisions already made. My thesis built a pre-decisional framework that maps potential green commitments across reversibility, stakeholder impact and regulatory exposure, helping organisations identify failure modes before they're locked in. Designed specifically to work within SME resource constraints.
"Ambitious EU frameworks like CSRD only work if the organisations they target can actually implement them."
CSRDSME ReportingDecision Frameworks
03 EU Policy
Panel Moderation · Brussels · 2025
Climate Skills Hub — the EU Climate Pact Annual Event
Moderated the Climate Skills Hub panel at the European Climate Pact Annual Event in Brussels — bringing together policymakers, civil society and industry around workforce transition. The session explored how skills infrastructure accelerates (or bottlenecks) sectoral climate transitions. The real work was translating across registers in real time.
"Facilitation between EU institutions and industry requires more than managing a Q&A — it's live translation between different logics."
EU PolicyClimate SkillsModerationBrussels
04 Research
Pre-print · ResearchGate · 2024
The Sustainability Truths Quadrant
A conceptual tool for auditing ESG claims before they become liabilities. It maps sustainability commitments across two axes — measurability and organisational control — to distinguish genuinely verifiable disclosures from aspirational ones. Designed to help practitioners and consultants build reporting that holds up under scrutiny.
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31529.81764
ESGReportingApplied ResearchFrameworks
CuraMe pitch at SmartCityLab Milan
Milan · 2026
CuraMe · RubikHub Demo Day
Moderating at EU Climate Pact Brussels
Brussels · 2025
EU Climate Pact · Moderator
Networking at conference
Conference
Building connections
Career

Professional experience

Jan 2025 – Present
CuraMe
CEO & Co-Founder
Defined strategy and positioning for a privacy-first AI health platform. Built growth and partnership initiatives. Pitched at RubikHub Final Demo Day at SmartCityLab Milan. Designing a product that works for real patients and real professionals, not just demos.
Digital HealthAI ProductVenturePitch
Jan 2024 – Dec 2024
Sweeft Analytics
Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer
Led growth strategy in a mobile analytics and sustainability-oriented startup. KPI frameworks, competitive analysis, partnerships, go-to-market execution.
GrowthAnalyticsSustainability
Jun 2022 – Dec 2023
Mudrex
Senior Business Analyst → Central Office Executive
Market and performance analyses, A/B testing design, internal coordination and strategic decision-support material across teams.
Market AnalysisOperationsStrategy
Jan 2021 – Jul 2022
Harmony
Business & Community Strategy Manager
Business strategy and community engagement; user feedback analysis to shape product and experience improvements.
CommunityProduct
2017 – 2020
Freelance
Researcher & Consulting Support
Research inputs for brand development, innovation framing and go-to-market reasoning for early-stage startups across Italy and beyond.
ResearchConsultingInnovation
Academic background

Education & training

2023 – 2025
M.Sc. Economics and Business Management
Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Economics of Innovation and Sustainability
110/110 with honors

Thesis: Reinventing Green — framework for testing sustainable decisions before they are made.

2020 – 2023
B.A. in Economics
Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi
Economics, management, digital transformation
109/110
2024
Climate Change: Learning for Action
Terra.do
Executive-style programme on climate, systems change and sectoral transition
Certifications
Subject Matter Expert — Sustainability Accounting & Integrated Reporting (2025) HubSpot Revenue Operations (2025) CFI Corporate Finance Foundations (2024) McKinsey Forward (2024) Atlassian Agile (2024) Google Data Analytics (2023)
Research output

Publications & writing

Pre-print · ResearchGate
The Sustainability Truths Quadrant
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.31529.81764
2024
Pre-print · ResearchGate
Rethinking Scope 1–3 Emissions: Unified Carbon Management Framework
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10668.88964
2024
Book · Amazon (Italian)
Peeking into the Future: Design and Metaverse Solutions
Early research on innovation and emerging digital environments
2023
Public roles

Institutional engagement

2025 · Brussels
Session Moderator — Climate Skills Hub
European Climate Pact Annual Event
Moderated a multi-stakeholder panel on workforce transition and cross-sector coordination for EU climate goals.
Jan 2025 – Present
European Climate Pact Ambassador
European Commission
Public engagement role within the EU climate participation framework — communication, mobilisation and ecosystem participation.
Aug 2024 – Present
Programming Committee Member
ISSP — International Society of Sustainability Professionals
Event programming, session design and stakeholder alignment for sustainability knowledge-sharing events.
Oct 2024 – Present
Pact for Skills Leader
European Union
Ecosystem participation linked to EU transition, capability-building and skills-based governance.
2025 · Milan
Conference Participant — AIDEA 2025
Italian Academy of Business Administration
Academic and practitioner dialogue on innovation, management and sustainability.
Get in touch

Let's talk

"Whether you're building in healthtech, working on sustainability at scale, or need someone who can navigate the EU policy world — I'd love to hear what you're working on."

What I'm open to
I'm looking for opportunities where I can contribute meaningfully — not just fill a box on an org chart.
Healthcare · digital health ventures · healthtech roles
Sustainability strategy · ESG consulting · policy work
Research roles · PhD applications · academic collaborations
Business development · growth · cross-functional leadership
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