Riccardo Catalano
Email: cataric2002@gmail.com Nationality: Italian and British
About
Passionate about AI, strategy, machine learning, geopolitics, and languages. Shaped by living across Europe and the US. Deployment Strategist at Wonderful in Zurich, getting agentic AI into production for enterprise customers. Native speaker of English, French, and Italian. Conversational in Spanish, Dutch, and German.
Education
MScBA Master in Management (MiM)
Rotterdam School of Management (Erasmus University) – Rotterdam, Netherlands
Strategic management, marketing, operations, supply-chain, business analytics, corporate finance. GPA 8.78/10 = US 4.0 = UK First class
Erasmus Exchange – Governance, Economics & Legal Order
ESADE Business School – Barcelona, Spain (Aug 2023 – Dec 2023)
GPA 8.05/10
BSc. International Politics and Government
Bocconi University – Milan, Italy (Sep 2021 – Oct 2024)
Multidisciplinary: politics, economics, management, law, quantitative methods. Thesis: European gas prices as a predictor of support for Ukraine. GPA 25.2/30
International Baccalaureate (IB)
International School of Lausanne – Lausanne, Switzerland (Jun 2019 – Jun 2021)
Final mark: 40/45
Experience
Deployment Strategist
Wonderful – Zurich, Switzerland (Jul 2026 – Present)
Getting agentic AI into production for enterprise customers in Switzerland, from first pilot to live deployment.
Consultant Team Lead
Tech Consulting Group – Rotterdam, Netherlands (Oct 2025 – Apr 2026)
Led team of 5 consultants advising financial services client on platform technology and operating‑model strategy. Delivered scenario‑based recommendations through competitor benchmarking, internal diagnostics, and cost modeling.
Junior Digital Ethics Analyst
IKEA (Ingka Digital) – Amsterdam, Netherlands (Aug 2024 – Jul 2025)
AI Governance: Established AI registry, coordinated cross‑functional teams for internal AI tooling and model governance. AI Act Compliance: Built risk frameworks and assessment tools, published engineering guide. Analytics & Automation: BigQuery dashboards, LLM‑based compliance flagging. Presented at internal tech conference (200+ attendees).
Skills
- Languages: Native in English, Italian, French | Conversational in Spanish, Dutch, and German
- Technical: Python (pandas), STATA, BigQuery, Machine Learning
- AI & Development: Building full‑stack web apps with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable). Blog at riccardocatalano.com/blog
- Certifications: GMAT Focus: 645 (88th Percentile), equivalent to GMAT Old 700, 100% in Verbal Reasoning, Machine Learning Specialization (DeepLearning.AI/Stanford) – Supervised ML, Advanced Learning Algorithms, Unsupervised Learning & Recommender Systems, Harvard CS50P – Python, ICDL Europe – Excel, Word, PowerPoint