Most recent work status update: 2026-10-05

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35+ years experience blending organizational transformation, project/programme recovery, post-M&A integration, AI-enabled consulting.

Multinational clients experience across automotive, banking/financial, gas/logistics, outsourcing, retail, system integrators, business software publishers, and startups (physical and digital products); in Italy also public sector.

Since 2012 expanded on ERP/automation, and from 2018 also AI governance and deployment, following an approach evolved from that adopted first in the late 1980s on Decision Support Systems and from the 1990s on data-driven initiatives (see Linkedin).

From 1990, received the missions in Italy and Europe via word-of-mouth from former customers and partners (formally via third-parties), as fractional project/change manager, and on management consulting advisory missions to be carried out in parallel, including for long-term customers. Only the missions in SAP environments since 2012 required full-time allocation on a single customer/domain.

Multilingual, worked also on commercial negotiations in English, French, Italian, and passively in German and Spanish

Worked onsite, hybrid, remotely in multinational environments and across timezones since the late 1980s br/>
for meetings/contacts, my agenda is on calendly.com/robertolofaro
_ latest career CV (3-pages, includes sample projects 1986-current, with details for each on Linkedin)

As an experiment since 2026-10-04 is also available an interactive CV where you can explore my experience through four dimensions:

Experience overview

an outline

Industry / domain

looking through business domains

Technology

looking through the technologies involved

AI initiatives

AI publications, projects, experiments

Beware: as clearly stated within the webapp, the references are still this page and the attached Acrobat PDF summary CV, as this first version has been developed through interactions with AIs (the completion was with Grok) from that material with some revision, but could still contain mistakes; gradually will evolve into a datafeed from my experience database, allowing a (confidentiality- and privacy-aware) semantic search by themes (see example already online on the search by cluster within articles)

Citizenship Italian/EU (born in Turin, Italy)

Core Expertise
- Cultural & organizational change, digital transformation: bridging C-level strategy with operational execution and governance
- Distressed project/initiatives recovery/audit and complex multinational program management and facilitation
- PMO/CoE design; project manager recruitment, training, on-the-job coaching; designing knowledge management/dissemination approaches
- Designing and coordinating/delivering training curricula and train-the-trainer, including multi-vendor, on technical and business/process
- Key account management and contract negotiation with CIOs and Business managers: multi-vendor, licensing, outsourcing, fixed-price, T&M
- Validating new / emerging technologies, processes, standards, compliance for integration in business activities and business transformation

See sample list of companies I worked with/for since 1986 within the table at the end of this page

If you are a project, program, portfolio, change, service/vendor management professional, you are welcome to connect on PMI's ProjectManagement.com, or to read my book QuPlan for free (includes a 200+ pages fictional case study on a program to implement compliance)

Current focus (English, French, Italian, passively other languages):
- From 2025 VAT-registered in Italy as freelance Management Consultant (first freelance role: 1990)
- Currently available for program and project management, as well as change coordination activities and roles
- Contact me via DM for fractional or mission-based roles; for other types of roles, will contact directly if interested

Social media presence

Sample experience by industry (1986-2024)
for longer-running customers (3 years or more) the years are listed

_Automotive/Mobility 1986-2024 (key customers)	CNH/Iveco 1999-2001/2012/2015-2018/2021-2022, SKF, FIAT 1986-1987/2002/2024 (as Stellantis), Magneti Marelli group management reporting 1988
_Banking 1988-2007 (selection)	Arcafondi 2004-2007, Cedacrinord/Cedacri 1990-2006, Banco Santander Finconsumo 2004-2007, Credit Suisse Private Banking, Credit Suisse, Crédit Agricole du Var,UK-based risk/ALM software companies, Federazione Toscana Casse Rurali ed Artigiane, Sanpaolo Invest, Istituto Bancario Sanpaolo Torino
_Electronics, Defence, and Aerospace (selection)	Alitalia, Elettronica Spa, Vitrociset; also: (Italy and UK) startups and potential spin-offs, support to software companies on business development
_Gas/Logistics	Sappi, DHL, Novogas/Liquigas 1992-1997 (1991 on another customer, same CFO), Intertransport, SAV; see also "Retail"
_Government	Sviluppo Italia 2004-2006, Ministero dell'Interno 2004-2006, office work within the Italian Army
_Retail	Filasport 2001-2003, EPA/Coop, Carrefour, Retek, Comshare, CEDIS Migliarini, GS, Autogrill
_Software BI, DSS, Management reporting, Banking, Others between 1991-2004 (selection)	Brio, MIP, Applix, Retek, TM/1, Comshare/Arbor; support to other UK-based
_Start-ups, 1998-2010	Watchbook/kanshu, TOHF, TheCruize, Teknemedia, others; support mainly in B F IT UK USA
_Consulting	Andersen/Coritel 1986-1990,Client Focus 1990s, CGI 1990-1992, MIP (banking and leasing RiskFactor) 1990s, others in UK (mainly banking and BI, in UK and France) 1990s-2000s, Reply (various business units, prospect validation 1997-2001, customers as part-time PM/BA 2002 and 2004-2006), Sys-Tek 2004-2007, Blue Sof/Aubay 2012, Maneat/DCS 2015-2018, Aubay 2021-2022, Avvale 2024
_Non-profit	Trees of Hope (USA/Rwanda) 2008-2010 and support to start-ups 1990-2011 in Italy, UK, USA