Gianpaolo Villa


Originally from Lecco, Gianpaolo is an internationally recognized food technologist specialized in Science and Technology of Gelato. He has been collaborating with the Carpigiani Group for over 25 years and has been responsible for the Research and Training division at Carpigiani.

He is currently a Senior instructor at Carpigiani Gelato University and is also a consultant to a number of gelato shops in Italy and abroad. He has provided courses, seminars and demonstrations in over 55 countries. In Valla's more than 25 years as a gelato master, he has acquiesced to some rather strange requests, including creating a tasty salmon gelato, a pesto gelato for an Indian chef and three different kinds of beer gelato for a German gelateria. However, Valli has also experimented and invented his own delicious combinations, such as pear and parmesan gelato, pineapple and basil, rosemary and lemon. Besides his mother language Italian, Gainpaolo is fluent in English as well.