About us
Two complementary management careers, each spanning more than thirty years, in senior roles and accountable for results. Before supporting other companies, we sat on the other side of the table.
Francesco Gulli
Electronic engineer (University of Pisa), MBA from MIP Politecnico di Milano.
He began in software design and production planning, at Italtel and Alcatel, then worked as a consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. At Ciba Vision he moved from international business analysis and controlling, in Zurich, to running the Italian subsidiary as General Manager, taking it to market leadership.
At Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics he was Managing Director Italy and Head of South Europe, leading a site of about 3,000 people with global research and development, production and commercial functions. Then, as Head of Region Europe & International, he managed the sale of the influenza vaccines business. At Sandoz he led operations in Africa and then in the Middle East and Africa: about 1,000 people across many countries.
Since 2022 he has been a management consultant on strategy and commercial operations.
- Areas: growth and new markets, commercial model, M&A and carve-outs, turnaround
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Nicola Meneghetti
Electronic engineer (University of Bologna), MBA from MIP Politecnico di Milano.
Ten years in consulting at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Capgemini and Deloitte, on IT strategy, process design and systems implementation. Then head of information systems at Gardaland and, for eight years, Director of Information Systems at Nestlé Purina South Europe: post-acquisition integration, migration to SAP, sales force and supply chain automation. At Nestlé Business Services he led continuous improvement, process reengineering and outsourcing projects.
From 2011 to 2016 he was Group CIO of Synlab Italia, a laboratory diagnostics group owned by private equity funds: up to 100 projects a year supporting growth through acquisitions, 16 integrations, digitalised customer services.
Since 2016 he has been an independent senior advisor on indirect costs, processes and integrations, with ERP and WMS selections, IT due diligence and interim roles.
- Areas: post-acquisition integration, processes, systems selection, indirect costs, artificial intelligence
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Why two careers?
Market and commercial on one side, operations and technology on the other. Together we cover every area of a company: from sales to operations, from finance to IT, up to general management.
We are both engineers, and we have both spent many years as managers, with budgets and people to run. That is why we speak the language of those who have to decide and of those who have to deliver.