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Pescara, Abruzzo, Italia

Pescara, Abruzzo, Italia

Pescara, Abruzzi, Italy

Spoltore, Abruzzi, Italy

Oversee and grow a geographically dispersed global team of eight FaterSMART and P&G business developers, defining key opportunities and removing roadblocks to commercial success for post-consumer diaper recycling industrialization and commercialization. Operations currently span Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and India.•Nurture win-win partnerships with key customers, i.e. waste operators, to show the benefits of and convince them to invest in multi-million € recycling machines•Attained cooperation agreements with the top three European Waste Operators valued up to €15M and reaching key target countries, including Germany, France, The United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Holland•Align general management and shareholders across joint-venture partnership between Procter & Gamble and Angelini on scheduling and negotiation strategies

Pescara, Abruzzi, Italy

Co-led the creation of a dedicated business unit, FaterSMART, within Fater for the further development and commercialization of diaper recycling technology.•Oversaw the ideation and end-to-end development of post-consumer diaper recycling, leading the growth of FaterSMART R&D and its development teams from 1 to 20+ employees as well as through double-digit year-on-year growth in patent grants •Ensured all technical development processes were on-track and on-budget for the €2M per year, eight-year development of FaterSMART’s first industrial scale machine•Obtained 20+ letters of intent for equipment purchase and IP licensing, providing early commercial validation evidence for post-consumer diaper recycling•Secured 10 early letters of intent for the Secondary Raw Materials (SRM), i.e. the outputs of the recycling process•Protected unique technology and developments by devising and successfully securing 190+ patents

Pescara, Abruzzi, Italy

Directed the organization’s sustainability and sustainable innovations program, including developing strategies for all four key pillars – social, environmental, innovation, and cultural sustainability – and an EU award winning management system to ensure continued and supported success. •Invented the diaper recycling project and pushed for its adoption by the organization and its shareholders; transformed existing processes away from incineration and towards circular practices •Established Fater as a key name in corporate sustainability in Italy, earning multiple industry accolades and awards •Championed and led the 15-person multifunctional team in charge of developing a renewable oil cogeneration plant designed to produce diapers with 100% renewable energy, delivering €3M+ in savings each year•Shaped the company’s sustainable mobility program, designing a first-of-its-kind employee benefit to replace the use of cars for daily commuting with pedal-assisted bikes

Geneva, Switzerland

Frankfurt, Germany And Pescara, Italy

Frankfurt, Germany And Pescara, Italy

Frankfurt, Germany And Pescara, Italy

Master Of Science, Chemical Engineering, 110/110 With Honors

Thesis resulted in Patent # IT1306008: Process for hexane solvent elimination from vegetable oils via continuous countercurrent.

Maturità, Classica, 60/60

Activities and Societies: National Certamen Classicum Florentinum award for translation from Greek into Latin