Armando Branchini is an economist and a professor of management of luxury goods and presently teaches at the Bocconi University in Milan. In 1992, Armando Branchini was among the promoters of Fondazione Altagamma of which he is the Executive Director.

In 1987 he founded InterCorporate Strategie e Impresa company in Milan together with InterCorporateGroup, of which he is the Chairman. Since then he has worked in the area of corporate strategy, marketing and international marketing, in the luxury consumer goods and top-end services area.