Milan, Lombardy, Italy
I am a senior HR leader who uplifts and inspires individuals, teams, and organizations to perform at their highest potential. With 18+ years of international experience, I partner with executive teams to drive organizational transformation, leadership capability, and sustained business performance across Europe, Asia, and the U.S. Throughout my career with Beko (formerly part of Whirlpool Corporation Europe), Philips, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca, I have led strategic HR agendas and high-performing HR teams within multicultural and matrixed environments. My experience spans organizational design, succession strategy, culture and DE&I transformation, HR governance, and large-scale business integrations. My leadership approach balances human-centered leadership with commercial discipline, ensuring that people strategy translates into measurable and enduring business outcomes. Areas of impact: • Strategic HR business partnership with executive leadership • Organizational design & workforce transformation • Leadership and succession strategy • Culture and engagement transformation • Enabling high-performance matrix organizations I am motivated by senior HR leadership mandates within international organizations where people strategy plays a central role in shaping culture, strengthening leadership, and enabling sustainable business impact across global markets.
Advising on global workforce trends and leadership development, aligning academic programs with evolving enterprise talent needs. Focused on advancing career-relevant, accessible education that supports transformation and future workforce capability.
Operated at enterprise level leading global strategic HR projects across Beko Group markets, driving organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and high-performance culture during a critical post-integration transformation period. Led enterprise DE&I and leadership programmes including a Women's Leadership Programme reaching 200 participants across 20 markets. Launched global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across APAC and Africa, embedding inclusion as a strategic business priority. Beko’s European business was formerly part of Whirlpool Corporation, a global leader in consumer durables and home appliances. In this context, I contribute to strengthening leadership pipelines, evolving organisational capability and embedding a high-performance culture during a period of significant pre and post JV transformation.
Served as the EMEA Regional Talent Lead for Whirlpool, owning all Talent COEs across Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Performance Management, L&D and DE&I for a €5B business across 39 countries and ~20,000 employees — while also serving as HR Business Partner for HR function, for a 150-member regional HR team and single point of contact for all people matters between EMEA leadership and Global COEs. Built and led the Regional Talent Centre of Excellence across our European markets, driving talent strategy, succession planning and leadership pipeline development directly aligned to commercial and transformation priorities. Co-designed and led an 18-month Leadership Purpose journey for the top 100 regional leaders, embedding purpose-driven leadership as a cultural cornerstone — sustaining employee engagement at 72–75% through a period of significant organisational turbulence. Co-led the HR workstream for the Arçelik–Whirlpool joint venture — a highly complex, multi-year undertaking involving the carve-out of Whirlpool's EMEA business from a global corporation, preparation for standalone operations under a new JV structure, and the prioritised integration of all HR processes, systems and initiatives with the incoming partner organisation over a two-year transition period.
HR Business Partner for a $1.95B global business (~4,000 employees) spanning the Netherlands, Germany, India, China and the U.S., supporting leadership teams in driving business strategy, organizational transformation and capability evolution across innovation and DXR teams. Led a global footprint transformation, restructuring Business Teams & operations in Germany while building capability hubs in the Netherlands, India and China to support evolving business priorities. Partnered with Innovation Leader & leadership team, to support the strategic shift from hardware-led innovation to software and AI-enabled solutions, enabling new capability build, strengthening talent strategy and pipeline. Supported significant leadership and culture transformation, contributing to ~40% renewal of the leadership team and improving employee engagement from 45% to 75% within 18 months. Was the DE&I champion for the PD cluster for Philips.
Strategic HR partner to business leadership supporting Philips Personal Health (Consumer business) in India, spearheading HR across innovation, manufacturing, commercial operations and all corporate functions during a period of strong market growth and transformation. Partnered with leadership to align people strategy, organizational capability and talent pipelines to support rapid expansion of the Personal Health business across multiple product categories in the Indian market. Supported the go-to-market shift from traditional retail toward e-commerce and digital channels, enabling new organizational capabilities, talent models and commercial structures. Led the HR workstream for a manufacturing site divestment, managing workforce transition, stakeholder alignment and organizational continuity during the separation process. Strengthened leadership capability and employee engagement, supporting business leaders through growth, structural change and evolving market dynamics.
Led the Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding Centre of Excellence for Philips India, shaping hiring strategy to attract top talent across business and technology functions. Built a focused campus and lateral hiring strategy, strengthening Philips’ presence across leading MBA and engineering institutions in India. Launched digital and social-media driven employer branding initiatives, enhancing Philips’ visibility and strengthening early-career and leadership talent pipelines. Built deep expertise across talent acquisition, campus hiring, RPO partnerships and leadership hiring, strengthening hiring capability across the organization.
Gained early global HR experience supporting business teams within a large multinational environment, building foundations in talent management, employee relations and HR operations.
Held multiple HR roles across Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partnering and transformation initiatives, supporting the growth of Johnson & Johnson’s Medical businesses in India. Led Recruitment for J&J Medical India, shaping hiring strategy and building strong talent pipelines across commercial and functional roles. Served as the India HR lead for a strategic M&A project, supporting organizational readiness, talent integration and workforce transition planning.