Career Track Record
A verified executive path across energy, industrial connectivity and international growth.
This career record brings together a current global Energy segment mandate, 35+ years of technical, commercial, product and standards responsibility, and a progression built inside real industrial markets.
The timeline below connects HARTING global segment leadership, Weidmuller strategic portfolio ownership, Cabur product, certification and standards depth, and Lavazza international technical and commercial training experience into one verifiable career path across energy, industrial connectivity, portfolio responsibility and international market development.
December 2024 to Present
Head of Global Market Segment Management Energy
HARTING Technology Group
Current global Energy segment responsibility, focused on sustainable market strategy, growth areas, cross-divisional collaboration, solution and service offering, Key Account cooperation and official representation in relevant committees and organisations.
HARTING reports approximately €1.1 billion total sales in financial year 2024/2025, up from €940 million in the previous year, with a global structure that includes production plants and sales companies worldwide. The current Head role sits inside this international industrial-connectivity and energy-growth context.
Official HARTING facts and figures- Continued development and implementation of a sustainable global market strategy.
- Identification of additional growth areas and development of tailored go-to-market approaches.
- Leadership of a high-performing global team of Industry Segment Managers, direct and indirect.
- Establishment of collaboration beyond departments and geographical regions.
- Drive of compelling solution and service offerings to maximise sales growth.
- Intensified cooperation with Key Account Management to improve in-house share.
- Market and application-specific communication measures.
- Official representation of HARTING Technology Group in relevant committees and organisations.
December 2012 to November 2024
Senior Global Strategic Product Manager
Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
A long-term industrial automation and connectivity role with global product-portfolio strategy, roadmap ownership, lifecycle management, innovation planning, key-account integration and cross-divisional coordination.
During this period, Weidmüller crossed the €1 billion turnover mark for the first time, reaching €1.175 billion in 2022. In 2023 the Group reported €1.102 billion turnover and record investments of €99 million in solutions for electrification, automation and digitalisation. His portfolio and market-development responsibilities were held within a company environment of significant industrial scale.
2022 official report · 2023 official report- Design, development and responsibility for product portfolio strategy and roadmap with turnover worth hundreds of millions of euros.
- Team leadership in portfolio filling and extension projects, coordinating cross-divisional and cross-border activities.
- Global responsibility for industry-specific roadmaps involving Global Key Account and Industry Management.
- Design and implementation of a cross-divisional mid-spec product guideline adopted at corporate level.
- Lifecycle management of mature product lines, including price positioning, global pricing structure, discontinuation processes and product packages for distribution and direct customers.
- Turnover and product-result analysis with distribution and global application management focused on contribution-margin maximisation.
- Business cases, planning horizons and roll-out of flagship new product development projects with multi-million euro turnover potential.
- Product-specific market analysis, marketing activities, forecasting data and time-to-market optimisation.
February 1992 to November 2012, with standards activity continuing from December 2014 onwards
Product Manager, Certification Project Manager and Standards Expert
Cabur S.r.l.
The foundational industrial chapter: product lifecycle management, certification, standards, customer training, international sales support and market development in electrical connectivity sectors where reliability and compliance are decisive.
Cabur places its industrial history in Italy from 1952, with electrical-panel connection products, industrial connectivity, automation and control, marking systems and energy-transition solutions. This gives public context to a long chapter built around product management, certification, standards and technical-commercial responsibility.
Official Cabur company profile- Management of cash-cow and core product lines, with direct responsibility for tens of millions of euros in yearly turnover.
- Pivot role between engineering, commercial department and ownership to optimise capital expenditure and product direction.
- Entire product lifecycle management, including new product development, raw-material choices, make-or-buy decisions, pricing and distributor channels.
- Customer servicing, sales-force training and product presentation worldwide, with courses held in Italian, English, French and Spanish.
- Product introduction through key accounts in utility and transportation markets.
- Development of UK sales, doubling revenue in one year.
- Management of Oil & Gas accounts involving ATEX and IECEx products, with annual sales exceeding the million-euro threshold.
- Twenty years of product certification experience across IEC, UL, CSA, LR, RINA and specific sectors such as geothermal and nuclear power plants.
- ATEX and IECEx authorised representative, and participation in CEI, IEC and DKE standardisation environments.
April 1991 to February 1992
Technical and Commercial Consultant
LAVAZZA S.p.A., Coffee Training Centre, Turin
An early customer-facing and international training experience, already combining technical explanation, commercial support, fairs, foreign customers and field communication.
Lavazza describes its Training Center as founded in Turin in 1989 and now represented by more than 55 locations worldwide. This early role adds customer-facing training, international communication and field representation to the foundations of his later industrial career.
Official Lavazza Training Center- Training and updating courses for Italian and foreign salespeople and customers.
- Support to the Italian and foreign sales network in the catering sector, with activity in Northern Italy and European countries, especially the UK.
- Reporting to the main laboratory during introduction of new blends in the areas in charge.
- Organisation and presence at fairs, exhibitions, competitions and professional meetings.