Enrico Giovene is a senior executive with significant management expertise in corporate development. Executive Vice President Group Sales of Gruppo Natuzzi (worldwide) and Chairman of Natuzzi Americas Inc (USA) until 2003. Previously he was the Executive Vice President of Electrolux Food Service Equipment (worldwide) and Brand Division Director of White Goods Italy for the Electrolux Group. Enrico worked for Selenia (today part of Gruppo Finmeccanica) and Olivetti Corporate Headquarters in Ivrea. He started his career as a researcher for the Università di Padova and CERN (Geneva).

Enrico has 26 years of experience in corporate strategy and operations. He has managed large-scale implementations of both revenue enhancement and cost reduction strategies and has been involved in significant M & A exercises in multinational environments. He has international transformation and turnaround expertise in areas such as sales, marketing, organization, logistics, production planning and R & D.

In his practice, Enrico has assisted client companies in restructuring, evaluating merging or re-locating operations, managing change in product-market policy. He requires that every move is supported by a critical analysis of its strategic, organizational and operating consequences. He is used to link conceived actions to sound financial targets, including those on capital tied into operations. Enrico has been reviewing business plans, assessing value of acquisition targets and conducting management appraisal programs.

Enrico graduated in Physics (specialization in Electronics Physics) at the University of Padova (1972) and consequently has been involved as a researcher for CERN in Geneva. He has been lecturing Applied Economics at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Udine. He speaks Italian, English and French.