MASSIMILIANO GUZZINI
President of ASSIL (Italian Association
of Lighting Manufacturers)
ice-President of iGuzzini Illuminazione
Massimiliano Guzzini (Recanati, 1969) is Vice-President of iGuzzini illuminazione since 2012, Chief Marketing Officer of iGuzzini illuminazione since 2013 and Member of the Board of Directors since 2010, iGuzzini SEA Director since 2012, Chairman of iGuzzini Lighting China Co. Ltd. since 2010, CEO of iGuzzini Lighting Hong Kong and Chairman of Shanghai iGuzzini Trading since 2009. He is also President of ASSIL (Italian Association of Lighting Manufacturers) since 2016, Member of the Lighting Europe Executive Board as ASSIL Representative and Co-ordinator of the Department of Business of ADI (Association for Industrial Design) since 2014.
Graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ancona, he specialized in International Business and Doing Business with Pacific Rim Countries at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and accomplished a Master’s program in Business Administration at Luiss University in Rome. He started his professional career at Fratelli Guzzini S.p.A. in 1999, where he both worked as a Product Manager and Area Manager between 1999 and 2004. In 2005 he successfully launched the start-up in China, operating as Chief Representative of iGuzzini representative offices in Shanghai and Beijing first, Chairman of iGuzzini Lighting China Co. Ltd. and Shanghai iGuzzini Trading then. In the same period, he has simultaneously reorganized the company's key structures for the Japanese, South Korean and Hong Kong markets. Between 2011 and 2013, he held the role of Market Development Director at iGuzzini illuminazione.