Dino Borri comes from the northern Italian town of Bra, the home of Bra cheese and the Slow Food movement. He worked as an event coordinator for the movement’s international organization, which is based there, until 2008.

Around that time, he was tapped to be a project manager for Eataly, established a year earlier in Turin. Mr. Borri became the first employee to work outside of Italy when he established Eataly in Tokyo. In 2011, he moved on to New York as the vice president of global partnerships for Eataly USA.