Strategic & Corporate Finance Advisor supporting processes of growth and value creation through M&A transactions, IPO and opening of the share capital to institutional investors.
Chief Financial Officer in a leading company in the field of hosiery, tights and socks of Italian luxury fashion, primarily involved in international trade.
Before, for several years, as Group CFO and as Board Member, I have gained a great deal of experience in an industrial group in the marble machinery sector.
Working at the side of the owners during the passage of the business from the one generation to the next, and during its transformation from an employer to a manager-run company, I helped develop the international vocation of the business, handling foreign start-ups, in China, Turkey, Spain, and Ethiopia.
I personally managed, supporting the advisor, three M&A rounds for an agreement with a financial investor for a capital increase addressed to acquisition of competitors operating in Italy and abroad.
As well as my involvement with the management of administration, tax and treasury matters, management control system, and business planning, I have introduced new lean cost accounting methods and implemented the international ERP system of the holding company at the foreign subsidiaries, in compliance with local accounting and tax standards and systems, and carried out a new Group reporting package in order to reach consolidated fast closing.
To raise the company’s reputation in the eyes of financial stakeholders, I have worked out a corporate reporting evolution embracing sustainability reporting and integrated reporting (Non-financial information).
Several times as lecturer in training courses and conferences organized by business schools and universities.
In addition I am Chairman of Italian CFOs Association (ANDAF) for North-east Section, CUOA Finance Business School Advisory Board Member, OIBR Foundation Advisory Board Member.