Melania Velleca is Chief Digital Officer at Gridspertise.
Melania began her professional career when she joined Enel in 2007, working principally in business process reengineering and enterprise architecture at the Pozzuoli IT Competence Center before moving to the company’s headquarters in Rome in 2012.
She took up several positions in the ICT Division between 2012 and 2017, leading strategic projects in the Energy Market and Innovability Function, before becoming Head of the Retail and Minigrid Unit at Enel Green Power, where she was responsible for setting up and executing innovative pilots and small-scale trials to evaluate feasibility time, costs, adverse events, and effect size for new solutions in Africa and LATAM according to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Since the creation of Enel X, she served as Head of the Digital Channels Platform, looking at the main challenge of creating B2C-B2B-B2G digital offers that support the energy transition, where the focus is not just to push new technology, but to push new meaning.
She holds a Master’s Degree with honors in Computer Engineering from Federico II University in Naples and she is a 2023 Executive MBA candidate from SDA Bocconi in Milan.