VIGAMUS Foundation's mission is to preserve, defend and promote game culture, and its main assets are VIGAMUS - The Video Game Museum, and VIGAMUS Academy. As one of the founder and Executice Director, my role is to set the policies, the goals and the strategy of VIGAMUS Foundation, assuming at the same time the role of Director of both Museum and Academy. I am in charge of all the contents, the campaigns and the supervision and management of all human resources of the Foundation. I have launched Foundation's Study and Research Center, led by Dr. Micaela Romanini, Academy's Bachelor Degree Programme on Video Games, led by Dr. Alessia Padula, and VIGAMUS Labs, led by Guglielmo De Gregori.I am also in charge of all our seminars, exhibitions and expo (including ET: The Fall) and of our game studies book series, "Conscious Gaming. Manuals of Game Culture". I have written several publications for the major Italian publishers like Mondadori and Carocci, and I teach at three different universities: University of Rome Tor Vergata, University of Rome Link Campus and Academy of Fine Arts of Rome.I have also the task of being the only official spokesperson for VIGAMUS Foundation and of officially representing it during all the national and international missions, including E3, Tokyo Game Show, gamescom, GDC, Cartoons On the Bay, Milan Games Week, Paris Games Week, Quo Vadis, etc.

Dirige Game Pro, il mensile di critica videoludica nato nel 2007, realizzato da Idra Editing e pubblicato da Sprea Editori. Il magazine è una testata specializzata multipiattaforma attualmente disponibile sulla piattaforma digitale Readly. Riportano al Direttore il vicedirettore Gianpaolo Iglio, l'editor della sezione "In Progess" Federica Farace, l'editor della sezione "Recensioni" Daniele Di Clemente e l'Art Director Stefano Caldari.

As Managing Director of Idra Editing Srl I am in charge of managing all our print and online publications, about Video and Computer Games, Movies, Entertainment and other fields of interest. I manage the human resources, set the editorial line of the magazines and manage the contact with all our clients.I have launched many products like: EDGE Italy, Game Republic (from issue 116 on), Xbox Official Magazine Italy, Pokémon Mania, now Pika Mania, Retrogame Magazine, GamesVillage.it (from November 2016 on), Vigamus Magazine.com, VR Gamer.it, and Game Pro.

As Editor in Chief of GamesVillage.it (published by Sprea Editori and managed by Idra Editing), one of the top video and computer games online magazine in Italy, I am in charge of all the editorial issues, of managing the human resources and supervising all relationships between GV and all the publisher and developers. I have decided and managed the launch of the new channels MovieVillage and RetroVillage.

Marco Accordi Rickards joins the team as Strategic Consultant for all Gaming operations. With over 20 years of international experience in the Games Industry, Marco Accordi Rickards, who will report directly and exclusively to the President, will be a decisive resource in the growth and consolidation plans of the Leonardo Interactive group.