CRO, COO, CCO

Performance Improvement and Restructuring

• I have managed projects in Supply Chain (Passenger Cars - France / Europe, Automotive spare parts - Germany), Operations Improvement and Cost Control (Beneteau - France, Construction - Poland), Strategic Sourcing (Automotive - Italy), Business and Financial Restructuring (Lighting - Italy), Operations Outsourcing (Furniture – Italy), Cost reduction (Aluminium rolling – italy)

• The shareholder and main lender is Pillarstone, a fund specialized in non performing loans.
• The company is a European leading producer of plastic films mainly for the food industry, 150 MM€ revenues, financially distressed. It has been partially divested to a trade buyer.
• Responsibility to recover and manage industrial and back office operations, develop an industrial and financial plan; the role has been appointed by the BoM and reports to the President

Biomedical devices

• Responsibility to invert the declining top line and gross profit trend, reorganize 7 sales & service branches in Eu, Americas and China, define the product range optimization and evolution, reduce working capital, improve EBITDA by 10% of sales in 3-4 years.
• Co-management with the General Manager of the company restructuring and relaunch
• Interim director of the supply chain
• The role has been appointed by the private equity owner (Montezemolo & Partners)
• It has been completed with the successful divesture to the industry global leader Medtronic

Unopiù S.p.A. (Outdoor furniture) and Elia S.p.A. (Automotive Logistics)

• In both cases the role has been appointed by two leading private equities and the lenders to support the business performance after a phase of financial distress and debt restructuring (182 bis).
• Both situations have ended with the divesture of the companies to trade buyers.

• Proposal and management of performance improvement and restructuring projects in Italy, Europe, US, Brazil.
• Successfully managed over 30 engagements, part of them to define and launch the projects, part also to implement the planned changes.
• In various situations the professional fees have been linked to the financial results.

• I joined the firm as Associate Director dedicated to the Energy & Utilities Industry and to the Strategic Change Practice.

• This position has been introduced following the rapid development of this leading entrepreneurial company in the motorcycle business.
• The position reports to the Managing Director and is supported by a dedicated team of professionals, partially consultants.

• I have entered the company as Associate, and I have reached the position of Principal. In the last years I have been part of the European core team for the Automotive industry