Sergio Bruno

Sergio has a broad range of professional experience within all areas of merger and post-acquisition integration. He has a strong experience in management consulting, international restructuring, project management, change management, implementation of IT systems and people management. Sergio worked for both for large corporations and for mid-caps. He is a certified business coach and he authored different books and articles.

Experience Highlights

• Developed a wide international and multi-cultural experience working in several countries from America to Europe and the Middle East
• Consumer goods: CooperVision, led the Italy integration of the $1.2bn acquisition of Sauflon
• Banking: Banca della Svizzera Italiana/Banca del Gottardo, led the merger of the back offices of the two private banks; Banca Intesa San Paolo
• Luxury: Labelux, post-merger alignment of the processes among the brands of the group
• Telco: Vodafone group post-merger definition of the new organization after the merger of the local brands
• Automotive: General Motors – Fiat, merger of the engineering dept.
• Insurance: Generali group, merger of the insurance companies (Alleanza and INA/Assitalia)
• Oil & Gas: Eni, due diligence for the transfer of the IT company EniData to EDS
• Utilities: due diligence for AEM merger into A2A
• Other: Definition of a new organization for Novartis Oncology across Europe; Startup of the Italian branch of GE Money; Direct insurance set up for Zurich Insurance

Education

Electronic Engineering with honors, Collegio Ghislieri at Oxford University
Masters in Information Technology, Politecnico di Milano
Executive MBA, St. Gallen
Studied Radical Innovation, MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
ICF certified business coach

Languages

English
Italian