Davide Sonzogni
Davide Sonzogni is an international business engineer with 20+ years of professional expertise and a proven track record in strategy, financial management, project management, business process re-engineering, and startup development.
Davide is a Solutions Architect for C&W Services – a division of Cushman & Wakefield. Davide leads consulting engagements with clients to develop end-to-end service delivery solutions. Davide is also contributing to the re-design and execution of a strategic plan for the company’s business development process to improve productivity and revenue growth.
Prior to his role at C&W Services, Davide was Deal Flow Lead at A+E, a 100K+ community of equity crowdfunding investors and recipient of the 2022 Equity Crowdfunding Financial Publisher of the Year Award. Davide identified, sourced, and screened startup investments featured by investors Daymond John (The Shark Tank Group) and Buck Jordan (Wavemaker Labs – Next-gen innovation venture capital fund)
Davide Sonzogni has also worked as Senior Consultant for ndp | analytics, a boutique strategic economic and policy research firm. He developed a multidimensional scoring system based on World Bank methodology to evaluate and rank the ease of starting a business and the efficiency of local regulations. In addition, Davide co-developed a regulatory risk evaluation framework to assess the impact of U.S. legislation on financial markets. Over the last 11 years, Davide has served as an adjunct professor for Finance and Strategy courses at George Washington University.
Recently, Davide volunteered for the USCCB designing an online financial literacy series for human trafficking survivors to build and enhance their economic self-sufficiency.
He holds an MBA from George Washington University and is a graduate of Politecnico di Milano (Italy), with a Master of Industrial Engineering. Davide is passionate about the application of artificial intelligence in business, and completed the “Artificial Intelligence Implications for Business Strategy” certificate by MIT.
Education
- BFA Summa cum Laude with Honors, University of Connecticut
- MBA in Sustainability, Yale School of Management
Conference Presentations
- Columbia University Climate Symposium
- IKEA One Home One Planet resale roundtable
- Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY) Career Pathways series
Awards
- Outstanding Online Master of Business Administration Faculty Award - GWU Business School
Selected Podcasts and Features:
- Coming Back Better Podcast, Anti-Racism: What Comes Next? March 2023
- The Pivot Podcast, Exploring Inclusive Cultures with Dr. Sofia B. Pertuz and Therese O’Higgins, December 2022
- Real Talk with Gen Z Podcast, How Race Affects our Mental Health, July 2022
- Mary Christie Institute Quadcast, Episode 34: Inclusive Excellence with DEI Expert, Dr. Sofia B. Pertuz, March 2022
- Yes Collective Podcast, How to Talk to Your Kids About Race and Ethnicity, July 2021
- Student Affairs Now Podcast, Proud & Thriving: Supporting the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Students, December 2021
- Inside Higher Education, LGBTQ+ Students Face Sizable Mental Health Disparities, October 26, 2021
- Inside Higher Education, Supporting Mental Well=Being for Students of Color, June 17, 2021
- Forward 40 (4tea) Podcast, Started from “the Bottom” Now We’re…Still Rising, July 2019
- Moderated webinar: “Managing Stress During Distance Learning: How Faculty Can Support Their Students.”
- Moderated webinar: “Parenting During the Pandemic: Challenges, Strategies, and Tips Empowering Families of Teens.”
- NASPA SA Speaks Presentation: Nevertheless, She Persisted, March 2018
Highlighted Presentations, Panels, and Keynotes:
- The Future of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Racial Equity in Corporate America, Northwestern University, 2023.
- The Renaissance Leader: A New Era of You, NJ American Council of Education Women of Color Symposium, 2022
- Supporting the WHOLE Student, Delgado Community College Faculty Convocation, 2022
- Actionable Strategies to Support the WHOLE Transfer Student, NY Transfer & Articulation Association, 2022
- Profile of Today’s College Student with an Equity Lens, Mary Christie Institute, President’s Convening, 2022
- Supporting the Wellbeing of LGBTQIA+ College Students, Los Angeles Chancellor’s Council, 2022
- Latinx/Hispanic History, Language, and Labels, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, 2021
- Allyship in Action, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, 2021
- Cultural Humility in Communications, Life Alliance Organ Recovery Agency, 2021
- Moving from Intentions to Actions in Governance: Developing Organizational Readiness for the EDI Action Toolkit Implementation, American Public Health Association (APHA), 2020
- A Matter of Perspective: Understanding and Recovering from Bias-Motivated Interactions, DIAL Global, 2020
- Conversations about Race: The Latinx Experience, Bloomberg, LLP, 2020
- Confronting Colorism and Anti-Blackness in Latinx Communities, ACPA Latinx Network Symposium, 2020
- Humor and Grace: Essential Tools for Community and Self-Care, Rutgers University Keynote, 2020
- Social Justice, Equity & Diversity: Culturally Responsive Support for Students (delivered in Spanish), NASPA Latin America and Caribbean Annual Conference in Monterrey, Mexico, 2019
- Leadership Development in a Global Context (delivered in Spanish), NASPA Latin America Conference, Santiago, Chile, 2018.
- Implicit Bias, Continuing Learning Education presented to Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, 2017
- Critical Incident Management: Partnering with Families. NASPA Conference, 2017.
