Michele Costabile is a Professor of Management and Marketing at Luiss University and Director of Luiss-X.ITE. 
He previously taught for more than 20 years: as an adjunct professor at the SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan, and an assistant, associate, and full professor at the University of Calabria (Arcavacata – Cosenza, Italy). He has an extensive teaching and research experience in Italy and abroad, on graduate, post-graduate and executive education programs. He has been visiting scholar at Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, and research assistant at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.
 He is the author and co-author of many books and papers that have been published in various journals, including the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Service Research, and Journal of Interactive Marketing. He served on the board of the European Marketing Academy as the Italian Nation Coordinator (2000-2004). He advised many companies and institutions (e.g. Italian Ministry of Culture - MIBACT), and since 2002 he has been engaged in many technology-transfers, academic spin-offs, high-tech Startups and venture capital funds projects both as advisor and as founder/co-founder or leader. He co-founded Luiss Alumni for Growth - investment club.

Paolo Peverini is an Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Management of LUISS, where he teaches "Marketing Communication and New Media Languages". He is Deputy Director of the X.ITE Research Center on Behaviors and Technologies. On March 21st, 2017 he was appointed by Pope Francis a consultant to the Dicastery of Communication (Holy See)

He is the author of many scientific publications which have been published in some of the most prestigious semiotic international scientific journals. His last monograph was “Social Guerrilla: Semiotics of unconventional communication” (Luiss University Press 2014). He was a visiting professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, as well as a member of Lars (Roman Laboratory of Semiotics). His research area concerns the qualitative analysis of communication, with a particular focus on the theories and methodologies of semiotics and sociosemiotics.

Matteo De Angelis is a Full Professor of Marketing at LUISS. He was previously a Visiting Assistant professor in Management at the Sheldon Lubar School of Business and a Research Assistant in Marketing at the Kellogg School of Management. His research activities focus on consumer behavior and marketing strategies, in areas such as social communication, word of mouth, digital marketing technologies, customer relationship management, and the sustainability of luxury branding. He has published over 100 pieces o work, including 3 books, about 50 articles and many conference papers. Some of his articles have been published in prestigious international journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Business Ethics, Psychology & Marketing and Psychological Science.