Andrea Splendiani Email & Phone Number

Milan Area, Italy

I am active in Egon Zehnder’s Tech and Health Practices, working on executive search and leadership development projects with digitally native and tech-intensive scale-ups, helping them attain their full potential.Also, I lead Egon Zehnder's AI practice across EMEA.https://www.egonzehnder.com/office/milan/consultant/andrea-splendiani

In charge of the EssilorLuxottica post-merger integration within Product (strategy, design, prototyping, R&D) and Operations (purchasing, supply chain, manufacturing, engineering)

Full P&L responsibility for a Group division developing, manufacturing and selling specialty chemical products, on track to achieve a multiple-digit year-on-year 3rd party sales growth

• Led a team of 20+ managers and researchers in the areas of wearable technologies (IoT, smart glasses), materials, in-store customer engagement and online mass-customization
• Reshaped the organizational structure and processes to allow for an effective development workflow, achieving -30% in innovation time-to-market
• Enabled product differentiation and brand elevation across more than 40 luxury brands, managing key relationships with internal and external creative and business stakeholders

• Revamped the commercial footprint, marketing and pricing strategy for a leading European non-food retailer, resulting in up to +50% in revenue/sqm
• Optimized channel pricing for a consumer products company (+5% revenues in the pilot)
• Completed a due diligence for vertical integration for a food manufacturer (30 M€ EV)
• Developed a rebranding program for a global utility operating in 35 countries
• Accelerated a media player’s diversification (+10pp non-core business in 1 year)
• Run a cost-transformation program worth 150M€+ for a European telco

Developed a new set of experiments in the field of nano-optics, managing a 500k€ budget

Published a paper (as first author) cited more than 4.500 times on the topic of emerging fluorescence from monolayers of MoS2, a subject of importance in the development of a novel generation of solar cells

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General, With Honors

During the year at IMD, I have: - Developed new business models and opportunities for a major European player in the security industry.

Master, Physics (Condensed Matter), 110/110 E Lode (Summa Cum Laude)

Graduated with a thesis on the optical properties of periodic plasmonic nanostructures.

Diploma, Physical Sciences, 70/70 E Lode (Summa Cum Laude)

Activities and Societies: Students representative of physical sciences studentsI ranked 1st in the admission exams (written and oral) for.

Bachelor, Physics, 110/110 E Lode (Summa Cum Laude)

Graduated with a bachelor thesis on the statistical modelling of the elasticity of biopolymers.

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