Enrica Acuto Jacobacci

A graduate in Economics and Business from the University of Turin, with Postgraduate Marketing Executive Education at INSEAD in Fontainebleau and Business Executive Education at Harvard.

She began her career at the multinational Danone as Brand Marketing Manager.

Always passionate about strategic communication, in 1995 she became a partner of Eclettica, one of the first Italian web agencies, and in 1999 she founded Akura, a firm specialised in brand communication.

Since 2004 Enrica has been a member of the Board of Directors of Jacobacci & Partners SpA, a leader in the Italian market, internationally recognised and awarded in New York at the Legal Summit Alliance Award as the best Pan-European firm specialised in Intellectual Property.
She is currently CEO and responsible for the French and Spanish offices.

In the course of her professional life she has worked with both national and international clients, ranging from public institutions to large multinationals operating in a wide range of sectors, from luxury to mass market, from non-profit to financial services.

She believes in management education as a tool for business development and regularly lectures as Post Grade Professor in Marketing & Brand Management at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), the Master’s programme of the University of Turin, the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino and the University of Milano-Bicocca. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Executive MBA Ticinensis.

Enrica is a member of AIDDA, the Italian representative in WIL, the European network dedicated to women’s leadership. She is a member of the jury of the Premio Gaetano Marzotto and of the Board of Directors of the Filarmonica del Teatro Regio di Torino.

In 2016 she won the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year award in the services category and in 2018 the Slow Boss award promoted by Brandforum.