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London, United Kingdom

FeedForward Consulting was founded with the idea of providing a tangible, personal and measurable support to our clients, who want to improve their present situation.Using their past experience as a base and complementing it with creative and innovative solutions, we are able to generate new conditions for future profitable growth FeedForward can count on.

London, England, United Kingdom

Bringing together the willingness of British Schools to expand their business in the Far East (mainly China, India, South Korea, Malaysia) and the desire of local investors to create new opportunities of investment in a highly profitable industry like Education. I had the opportunity to work with more than 20 schools among the most prestigious British.

London, United Kingdom

ASIS is set to become the preferred portal for international students & pupils seeking educational opportunities in the UK and Europe.In addition, ASIS offers services to educational institutions seeking to ensure their overall financial health. This will include, but not be limited to, finding partners, sales and acquisitions and financial health.

Spilimbergo (Pn)

Domino spa is a €70m turnover company operating in the high end of the wellness and hydro massage business, with an important penetration in markets like China, India, Russia, United States. The sophisticated product range designed by famous architects and produced with the best materials has always been synonymous of quality and luxury. In order to.

Ferrara Area, Italy

DIMMS CONTROL is a holding company operating worldwide in the field of geophysics, geological surveys, and laboratory tests on rocks, land, and building materials. It has a presence in East Europe, Africa and Middle East with a turnover of €50m. The scope of the assignment mainly to integrate the new acquired company into the existing business. Besides.

Battipaglia Area, Italy

Medium sized industrial company operating in the disposable tableware industry with a turnover of over €50m. Over the last years the business had lost market shares due to problems linked to the quality of their products and the consequent inability to respect the time commitments with their clients. The situation kept deteriorating and a more substantial.

Bari Area, Italy

Large agricultural business (450 ha, 40 employees) based in the south Italy, particularly active in the production of tomatoes and vegetables, with turnover of approximately €28m and a debt exposure of €20m. Hired by a pool of banks with the aim of finding a viable solution to restructure the debt exposure with the following priorities: a) generate enough.

Brescia Area, Italy

Medium size (€50m turnover, 120 employees) manufacturing company active in assembling fire fighters trucks based in Brescia with serious problems of developments and growth. The company had been making losses for six years (average €700k) and did nothing substantial to reverse the situation. Eventually, the owners decided to investigate the main causes and.

Rome

In 2007 Fiera di Roma spa e Fiera di Rimini set up a joint venture company, Expoglobe, to create an international exhibition hub focused on tourism development. The exhibition, organized every year in May and involving more than 300 international tourist operators, proved to be a loss generator due to a lack of cost control and managerial focus. The.

Mazzara Del Vallo (TP) Italy

In 2005 this Group, active in real estate developments, decided to invest €30m in the construction of a 5 star deluxe resort in the South West of Sicily, with the idea to create one of the best resorts in Europe. The Group also bought some land behind the hotel to build a 27 holes golf course and a club house. Unfortunately, the stakeholders were caught in.

VVR is a unique realty in the Business Consulting and Restructuring market, having focused its attention on working closely with SME clients during the delicate phases of their change process, obtaining tangible and long lasting results. Founded in 2006 with a business model that integrates Financial Advisory, Management Consulting and Operation.

London, United Kingdom

Merial plc is a multinational company with a turnaround of approximately $2.6bn acting in pharmaceutical business for animals. In order to increase the effectiveness of their UK pets vaccine department, especially in the new product introduction, they decided to implement a Design for Six Sigma program to speed up the process and increase revenues...

Florence Area, Italy

Lineapiù is an important supplier of wool threads for many renowned brands in the Italian fashion arena. In 2007, due to a strategic mistake and to the increased competition from the east, the company went into administration. Having a considerable real estate portfolio of industrial properties on the books (€40m), it was decided to sell the majority of.

Rome Area, Italy

Apply Quality Six Sigma Tools to align the productivity of the credit overdraft approval dept. to the company average.1) Responsible for a team of 15: mapped the process, calculated the actual performance in terms of time and cost.2) Prepared a list of potential steps in the process identified as “non value added”, quantifying their impact.3) Discussed.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Managing Director, Introduction of a Quality Six Sigma Program called: "War on Waste" in this medium sized fleet business, with problems of customer retention and market penetration. Main task of the assignment was to create a customer/quality mindset inside the company and teach how important is the customer relationship to to win more.

Equifax plc is an American multinational company active in providing credit information to banks and financial institutions. In 1999 they acquired a medium sized company in Italy (€14m turnover, 118 employees), as part of their European expansion strategy. Unfortunately, the business begun to lose money due to lack of focus and weak management. The loss.

London, United Kingdom

After the acquisition of Natwest, the Royal Bank of Scotland had to go through a huge integration exercise, both from a system as well as from an organisation point of view. The process was successfully completed during December 2002, bringing the bank to become one of the major players on the UK market, with more than 13 million customers. In conducting.

Potenza Area, Italy

Taking advantage of the recent liberalization of the Telecom industry in Italy, a group of entrepreneurs set up this company to cover the south of Italy. The venture was initially profitable, but rapidly the situation changed, due to the entrance in the marketplace of bigger and more organized companies. Bain suggested to move on to broadband services. The.

Padova Area, Italy

Italian branch of the German group Autoscout.de, this web company operating in the resale of second hand cars through its website experienced a huge growth rate until 2001, when it got caught in the Internet crisis. A re-launch was then necessary, acting mainly on the customer basis. I was appointed quality Leader with the specific task to review the sale.

London, United Kingdom

• Identified potential targets according to financial business needs. Responsibility over a team of 20.
• Approached potential targets at board level to verify interest and start negotiations.
• Managed due diligence process in Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, Austria

London, United Kingdom

• Trained as Master Black Belt, developed an implementation strategy to deploy the initiative across Europe.
• Coordinate performance of 14 European Quality Leaders. (matrix responsibility)
• Set up objectives for 14 European countries.Achievements
• Successfully deployed the program across Europe in 12 months: 2500 employees trained, 550 improvement projects started with potential savings in the region of $1.3bn.
• 1st year certified results: $400k; 2nd year certified… Show more
• 1st year certified results: $400k; 2nd year certified results: $850k Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Develop a 100 days integration plan to achieve the planned results
• Applied GE Capital methodologies to speed up the integration process (Change Acceleration Process)
• Created a Best Practice Database to facilitate experience exchange and future integrations
• Successfully integrated six companies over six assigned. Time respected, financial targets met.
• Redesigned the process to be more sensitive of local cultures and include a performance step measurement analysis

London, United Kingdom

• Identified potential targets according to financial business needs. Responsibility over a team of 20.
• Approached potential targets at board level to verify interest and start negotiations.
• Managed due diligence process in Italy, France, Germany, Turkey, Hungary, Sweden, Spain, Austria.Achievements
• Participated to 25 due diligence with managerial and coordination roles. Responsible for strategy and growth analysis.
• Completed 10 acquisitions: 3 in Italy, 3 in… Show more
• Completed 10 acquisitions: 3 in Italy, 3 in France, 2 in Germany, 1 in Hungary, 1 in Austria. for a global value of $1.3bn revenue increase. Show less

Turin Area, Italy

managed the annual marketing plan and Strategic Guidelines of 10 European countries. Responsibility over 20 employees and matrix report of 10 marketing managers. Responsible for the functional P/L of Lit.500m.

Milan Area, Italy

functional experience in sales and marketing, financial control, credit and collection, itc, operations: promoted in 1985 to vice director of the Milan Branch

Mba, Master In Business Administration

Economic And Social Disciplines, Business Studies, Magna Cum Laude

Economy and Management