Alessandro Saccoia
Decision Systems, Product Strategy & AI — from Design to Adoption
Upcoming (Apr/May 2026): AI Agents for Business Productivity — 3 seminars with Microsoft and the Chamber of Commerce of Milan
I design systems that help organizations navigate complex information and make better decisions — across AI, product, and real-world deployment.
I've led teams across data science, product, and engineering, translating technical complexity into decisions at the executive level — and ensuring systems are actually adopted and used.
Current and Previous Affiliations
About Me
I've spent the last decade building and deploying systems across industries — from machine learning and data platforms to product and decision systems. My focus today is simple: making complex systems — including AI — actually useful in real-world decision-making.
I hold a Computer Science degree from Università degli Studi di Milano, with certifications in AI and Law, AI Governance, and training in Transformative AI and AI Safety.
As co-founder of Thembi, I build systems for policy monitoring and strategic decision-making. Working across startups and institutions, I design and implement systems with focus on decision-making, constraints, and real-world deployment.
Increasingly focused on bringing systems from concept to adoption — working at the intersection of product, technology, and real-world use.
Previous roles: ML research at IRCAM, analytics at Nielsen, product at Vodafone, data science leadership at Beintoo, and technical direction at Dinahmoe building award-winning interactive experiences for Google, Nike, and HBO.
Work
I work with founders and executives on designing, validating, and deploying systems that directly impact decisions — not just building technology, but making it work in real environments.
Decision Systems & Knowledge Architecture
Design systems that help organizations structure information, navigate complexity, and support high-stakes decision-making — using AI where it adds real value, and ignoring it where it doesn't.
Technology Strategy & Execution
Define where technologies such as AI create real leverage, and translate strategy into systems that actually get built, integrated, and used.
System Validation & Feasibility
Evaluate whether systems — including AI-driven approaches — will work in practice: technically, economically, and operationally. Cut through hype and vendor claims to identify what is worth building.
Prototyping & Applied Systems
Build working systems quickly to test ideas in real contexts — combining software, data, and AI to validate usefulness, not just technical possibility.
Work Experience
Thembi
Co-Founder
October 2024 - Present
Milan, Italy
Building systems for policy monitoring and strategic decision-making — turning complex information into actionable insights in real-world contexts.
Independent Practice
Systems & Strategy
February 2025 - Present
Milan, Italy
Systems design and implementation across startups and institutions, with focus on decision-making, constraints, and real-world deployment.
Nielsen
Senior Manager - Marketing Effectiveness
April 2022 - April 2023
Milan, Italy
Senior Performance Measurement Commercial / Marketing Effectiveness South Europe & EMEA
Vodafone Business
Product Manager
January 2021 - April 2022
Milan, Italy
Product management of the Big Data Analytics product line. Design, requirement gathering and operations management of in-life clients.
Beintoo
Head of Data Science / Senior Data Scientist
October 2018 - November 2020
Milan, Italy
Lead of research in Business Intelligence and omni-channel digital transformation solutions. Improving ad-tech and market intelligence analysis products using advanced analytics, big-data analytical tools.
Mogees Ltd
Project Manager - Data Science
May 2017 - May 2018
London, United Kingdom
Audio Analysis, Statistical Signal Processing, Machine Learning algorithms. Rapid prototyping of mobile applications, command line tools and embedded software.
Dinahmoe AB
Technical Director
April 2012 - May 2016
Stockholm, Sweden
Led development of award-winning interactive audio experiences for clients including HBO, Nike, and Google. Won multiple FWA Awards working with agencies such as BBH, Stink Digital, and Acne Production.
IRCAM
Machine Learning Engineer
June 2010 - November 2011
Paris, France
Developer in the Analysis Synthesis group. Music Information Retrieval and Audio Descriptors.
IK Multimedia
DSP Engineer
October 2009 - May 2010
Italy
C++ programmer on the company's range of audio plugins
Teaching
Academic positions and specialized training programs across Europe.
Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence for Business and Society (LM-91 - Techniques and methods for the information society).
Bachelor Degree in Business and Finance (L-18 R - Economics and Business Management).
Teaching Statistics and AI at the Data Analyst & AI Explorer Course.
Université de Franche-Comté / Conservatoire du Pays de Montbéliard
Visiting Professor · 2013 - 2017
Montbeliard, France
Music Technology and AI at the Conservatoire, focusing on machine learning for audio analysis.
Private Training & Consulting
Executive AI workshops
Custom AI training programs for startups and scale-ups
Strategic AI adoption consulting for C-suite executives
Tailored courses on AI governance and risk management