Our Team
USA
Eligio Sgaramella
PRESIDENT / CEO / FOUNDER
Co-founder of Iperdesign, Eligio Sgaramella is responsible for creative strategies, client consulting, graphic design and advertising services. Eligio began developing his skills in 1995 while working on a freelance basis, gaining valuable experience in packaging, graphics and advertising design along the way. In 1997 he graduated from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, and found employment until 1999 with the Dorland agency. There he developed projects for clients such as Nissan, Globalstar, Elsacom, Citycom and others. From 1999 to 2001, Eligio refined his instincts as the art director of Italia Magazine, a periodical based in New York featuring Italian fashion and design. His move to New York also represented the beginning of Iperdesign in the U.S. market. Eligio also brings experience gained as an associate art director at a Philadelphia marketing firm, working on such accounts as Ramada, Budget, Avis and Alfred Angelo.
Anthony Groves
CREATIVE DIRECTOR / PARTNER
Since joining Iperdesign in 2004, Anthony Groves has headed up the studio, with responsibility for creative strategy, design execution and protecting the brand standards of our clients. Anthony is a 1996 graduate of the Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio, where he earned a degree in Illustration and Advertising. In his career, he has specialized in combining the two into high quality computer illustration and graphics for marketing, advertising and corporate identity projects in virtually all media. Prior to joining Iperdesign, Anthony honed his skills at a marketing firm in Philadelphia, and before that, in the art department of major travel company. His clients before Iperdesign included Stork, Cendant Corporation, ABFS and Lippincott Williams and Wilkins. Anthony also brings a variety of freelance experience to the table including pharmaceutical, non-profits, entertainment companies and sports-related clothing design.
ITALY
Nicola Di Cosmo
CREATIVE DIRECTOR, MULTIMEDIA / FOUNDER
Co-founder of Iperdesign, Nicola Di Cosmo is our director of marketing strategy, research and multimedia services. From 1997 to 1999, Nicola collaborated with ID&A studio in Rome designing products for their clients Bormioli Rocco and Colle Cristal design, before graduating from the ISIA in Rome in 1999. His thesis work consisted of research on digital products and was entitled “Materia in formazione, cartografia per un nuovo iperdesign del prodotto digitale”. It was during a move to New York that Nicola worked as a multimedia designer for Material ConneXion, Inc. Today, he is back in Rome representing Iperdesign’s services there.
Andrea Cavallari
SENIOR DEVELOPER / PARTNER
Since joining Iperdesign in 2008, Andrea Cavallari had brought has a whole new level of technology expertise to our programming team. C#, Pascal, Java, PL/SQL, Oracle, TomCat, XML, HTML, Javascript, VB.NET 2.0, Visual Basic 6.0, ASP 3.0, and ASP.NET are among the many languages he’s fluent in.
Prior to Iperdesign, Andrea’s experience was honed largely in software development and analysis for a variety of business environments, including banking and finance in both Italy and Ireland. He completed his studies at ITIS Industrial Institute of Informatics, and continues to stay up-to-date on the latest trends and innovations whenever they arise.


