Faculty staff profile
Maurizio Floris
M.Sc. (Sociology of Science, Philosophy) (University of Amsterdam),
Ir. (Economics, Operations Research) (Wageningen University)
Program Director - Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education
Maurizio’s main professional interests lie in strategy, strategic change, organisation development, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
Prior to joining the Mt Eliza Centre for Executive Education at Melbourne Business School, Maurizio worked in industry for 18 years. His key roles include, General Manager with Chubb (a division of United Technologies Corporation), CEO of Impart Corporation (an Oracle/ university joint venture) and Strategy Consultant with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). During that period Maurizio led two successful start-up businesses.
Maurizio has extensive multicultural and international experience, having worked in Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia . He speaks five languages.
His broad industry experience has included sectors as diverse as financial services, utilities, fast moving consumer goods, publishing, government, IT, agribusiness and international development.
His previous clients have include d ATO, ABS, Dept artment of Defence, Royal Australian Navy, Royal Singapore Navy, Department of Treasury, Vodafone, Gillette, Energy Australia, United Energy, LexisNexis (Reed-Elsevier), CCH (Wolters-Kluwer), Lion Nathan, St George Bank, AGC, AMP, RailCorp, Securities Institute, Qantas, Cargill, Royal Tropical Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands) and the Worldwide Fund for Nature.
Maurizio is a member of AHRI, AITD and AIM.

