CFO · Finance & Operations · Business Transformation · M&A · AI

Finance and Operations.
Scaling without the friction.

CFO and Finance & Operations Executive with close to twenty years in complex B2B businesses. I have led growth, cash generation, ERP transformations, M&A and cross-functional teams. My work now centres on one question: how far data, automation and AI agents can raise operating capacity without the organisation growing in step with it.

CFO · Finance Strategy Operations · Supply Chain Business Transformation ERP · BI · Data M&A · Governance AI · Automation
Executive profile Download the CV My projects
€14M → €40M
Business growth supported
€5M debt → net cash
Net financial position turned around
–30 days
DSO
4 teams · 15 people
Cross-functional leadership
3 ERP transformations · Interim Group CIO · M&A buy & sell side
Profile

A CFO who understands
the systems that matter.

I have spent close to twenty years across Finance and Operations, working on cash, working capital, ERP, M&A, governance and process transformation.

My remit widened steadily over that time — into Operations, Supply Chain, IT and quality — up to running four teams, fifteen people.

Three ERP transformations, the build-out of Business Intelligence, and some two years as Interim Group CIO across five European subsidiaries taught me to look past the numbers: at the systems, the data, and the decisions those numbers produce.

I now apply that experience to one question in particular: how automation and AI agents can raise a company's operating capacity without structure and complexity growing at the same rate.

Finance & Governance

  • FP&A · Budget & Forecasting
  • Working Capital & Cash Management
  • Credit Management
  • M&A
  • Corporate Governance
  • Risk & Compliance

Operations & Transformation

  • Business Process Transformation
  • Supply Chain
  • ERP
  • Business Intelligence
  • Change Management
  • Cross-functional Leadership

Digital & AI

  • AI Agents
  • Process Automation
  • Data & BI
  • AI-assisted Decision Making
  • Digital Transformation
Experience

What I have led

Not a list of duties: the remits I actually carried, and what came out of them.

CFO / Finance & Operations

A remit that widened progressively from Finance into Operations, Supply Chain, IT, quality and governance.

Cash & Working Capital

Net financial position moved from roughly €5M of net debt to net cash. DSO reduced by around 30 days.

Business Transformation

Three ERP transformations, and BI systems built first at country level and then across the group.

Group IT

Interim Group CIO for some two years, accountable for five European subsidiaries.

M&A & Governance

Buy-side and sell-side transactions, with the board, bank and institutional stakeholder relationships that come with them.

Leadership

Final accountability for 4 teams and 15 people.

Track

CFO | Finance & Operations Executive
Industrial sector · 2010–2026 · Milan
I joined with a Finance remit and watched it widen year after year: management accounting and treasury first, then credit, then Operations and Supply Chain, finally IT, quality and governance. Not a change of role — a steady extension of accountability, up to four teams and fifteen people.
Interim Group CIO
European industrial group · c. 2 years · 5 European subsidiaries
Group IT accountability across five European subsidiaries: ERP, Business Intelligence, data governance and infrastructure. This is where I stopped reading systems as an internal customer and started answering for how they were built.
Independent Projects | Finance, Operations & AI
2026–present
Building tools and prototypes that apply automation and AI agents to concrete Finance and Operations problems.
Projects

What I have
built

Every tool starts from a process I ran myself, not from a technology I wanted to try. Two of them are published on the Microsoft Store.

Other personal projects

Wealth · Asset allocation

Gestione Investimenti

Running personal wealth with the discipline of a corporate treasury: explicit buckets, a written policy, and an honest measure of how much of a result was skill and how much was luck.

Read the booklet
Fulcrum Consulenza

The rest of what I have built

Applications, agents and architectures with the technical detail that does not belong here: stack, design decisions, how they work inside.

Go to Fulcrum Consulenza
Book

La scala senza attrito

Growth carries a cost that never appears in the accounts: the hours spent reading situations, handling exceptions and making decisions. La scala senza attritoThe Frictionless Climb — examines what changes when part of that contextual work can be handed to AI agents. Published in Italian.

Out on 6 October 2026
See the book →
lascalasenzaattrito.it
Ideas

The end of middlemen

A series where I think out loud about what AI does to intermediaries, SaaS models and data infrastructure. Not consulting: the reflections of someone who ran those systems inside a company and now watches them change.

Substack · Finance · AI · Operations
Read the articles →
Contact

Let's talk

If you are looking for a CFO, if you have a process that will not scale, or if you simply want to discuss where AI holds up and where it does not — do get in touch.