Over the course of his extensive business career, Riccardo Di Blasio has served as a Middle East and Africa export area manager with the global hardware commodity company Om Porro and as a southern Italy district sales manager with Sun Microsystems. Riccardo Di Blasio also served as vice president and general manager of the major telecommunications provider EMC2, where he supervised general business operations throughout Italy.

Mr. Di Blasio has lived and worked in Palo Alto, California, since 2012, when he accepted a position as the senior vice president of vCloud services for VMware. Since January of 2017, Mr. Di Blasio has supervised the mobile virtual network and Internet of things (IoT) operations for Globetouch in Palo Alto.

When he isn’t working, Riccardo Di Blasio supports NASA’s iTech program and speaks at the organization’s Space Symposium and Space Tech Forum. Mr. Di Blasio also loves surfing and playing golf and tennis.