Enrico Giovene is a senior executive with significant management expertise in corporate restucturing and development. Executive Vice President of Electrolux Food Service Equipment (worldwide), then Executive Vice President Group Sales of Gruppo Natuzzi (worldwide) and Chairman of Natuzzi Americas Inc (USA) until 2003. Previously, he also worked for Olivetti in product planning and M&A projects, and for Selenia in product development. He started his career as a researcher for the University of Padua and CERN (Geneva).

Enrico has a solid experience in corporate strategy and operations. He has been involved in significant M&A activities in multinational environments and has led international transformation and turnaround processes.

In his current professional practice, Enrico has assisted client companies in managing change in product-market policy, reorganizing, selling or relocating operations. He has been assessing value of acquisition targets and conducting management appraisal programs. He has recently undertaken the Group CEO role in the Antonio Merloni Group of Companies under procedure of “Amministrazione Straordinaria” according to the Italian “Marzano law” for large industrial groups in special situations.

Enrico graduated in Physics (specialization in Electronic Physics) at the University of Padua and served as a researcher for CERN in Geneva. He is lecturing Applied Economics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Udine. He is fluent in Italian, English and French.