Vittorio works across institutional strategy, organizational development, and philanthropic advisory at AEA, helping clients move cultural ambitions from vision through implementation while combining strategic thinking with an operator’s experience of building and running an institution. He has contributed to projects for the Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Art and the Hartwig Art Foundation in Amsterdam and supports the firm’s work with clients in Italy and the United States.

Before joining AEA, Vittorio served from 2015 to January 2024 as the inaugural Executive Director of Magazzino Italian Art in Cold Spring, NY, a museum founded by Nancy Olnick and Giorgio Spanu. Working alongside the founders from its inception, he guided the museum from private initiative to public institution, overseeing the construction of its main building, designed by Miguel Quismondo, and its 2023 expansion with the Robert Olnick Pavilion, co-designed by Quismondo and Alberto Campo Baeza.

Earlier in his career, he held positions at galleries, auction houses, and private institutions. He also counsels family offices on their philanthropy, partners with governments on cultural diplomacy initiatives, and collaborates with ventures bringing new technologies to the art world.

Vittorio is particularly interested in the long-term sustainability of cultural institutions: how they are built, governed, and funded, and how their models evolve. He is equally drawn to innovation, from new partnership and revenue models to emerging technologies, and to the role culture plays in public life and cross-cultural exchange.

Born in Irpinia, Italy, Vittorio holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, an MA in History of Art and the Art Market: Modern & Contemporary from Christie’s Education, New York, and a BA and MA in Management of Government and International Institutions from Bocconi University in Milan.