antonio penna, Member of the Board of the Headquarter, CFO, Operation Director

antonio penna

Member of the Board of the Headquarter, CFO, Operation Director

Unionfin SpA

Location
Italy
Education
Doctorate, six sigma black belt
Experience
33 years, 5 Months

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Total years of experience :33 years, 5 Months

Member of the Board of the Headquarter, CFO, Operation Director at Unionfin SpA
  • Italy
  • My current job since September 2019

Group leader in the production of civil and industrial varnishes and coatings

Partner and Member of the Board at Con2Act
  • Italy
  • My current job since May 2012

Manages the operations and supervises the main projets ensuring the delivery of the services to the main Customers.

Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing Director at Medistream
  • Italy
  • December 2014 to May 2019

(Medical Devices - Trauma Sector )
Manages all the operational activities, ensures the Supply Chain oversight and analyses the financial/operational data to improve the Company performance.
• Implementation of a Lean Manufacturing programme (Backorder down by 70% and Generation of Savings improving the yearly Gross Margin by 4% - Increased production efficiency by 18%; increased production capaciy by 40%);
• Management of the Organization/Process development in order to bridge the transformation from local and one man owned company to international company;
• Business monitoring of all the Latin America Markets;
• Supply Chain Management in USA, Latin America and Europe.

General Manager at GB Invest AG, Innsbruck (Austria)
  • Austria
  • January 2012 to November 2014

Investments/Start-ups
Supervised and managed all strategic and operational activities while leading the Human Resources management team with the objective of optimising the Group performance, reporting to the shareholders.
•Developed and oversaw short, medium and long term strategic business decision; business target setting; business management and operational management
•Managed and monitored all financial data
•Human Resources and organisational management and supervised the results of all Group companies
•Achieved new business initiatives BEP within 60% of expected timeline producing a positive impact on the revenues of 25%
•Increased Ebitda by 20% and reduced costs by 40% (Increased margins by euro 45 millions p. year)
•New Businesses development in Europe and South/Central America

HR Director at Burgess Norton Italy (Amsted Group)
  • China
  • January 2009 to January 2012

Piston Pins Production - Automotive
Responsible for the governance of the company in Italy with 360° management of the Human Resources and organisational development in Asia and Europe reporting to the President.
•Set business targets in agreement with the USA Headquarters
•Responsible for production management; implementing Lean manufacturing and quality supervision
•Managed cash flow management and all financial data including monitoring the P&L
•Oversaw HR, organisational management, legal affairs and formal PR in Italian and Chinese plants
•Avoided shutdown of the Italian Company by implementing a comprehensive restructuring exercise
•Increased the Ebitda from 9% to 27% in 2 years in the Italian plant
•Increased production efficiency in the Chinese plant by 22%
•Delivered cost savings of 20% on raw materials purchased in the Italian plant
•Business development in Europe

HR Director at Consip/Sviluppo Italia S.p.A
  • Italy
  • January 2004 to January 2009

Procurement/Project Financing/Construction/Engineering - 2200 employees)
Oversaw the operations, Group Human Resources management, organisational development and supervision of the ICT, reporting to the Managing Director.
•Conducted a comprehensive business analysis to support the strategic decisions
•Analysed the value chain in order to check the capacity gaps and implement corrective actions
•Managed the Purchasing and Information Technology departments
•Implemented activities aimed to increase the organisational efficiency
•Constantly monitored ROI and ROA with a new approach (impact analysis on the intangibles)
•Saved 25% of the costs related to the project staffing after a workload analysis (euro 25 millions p. year)
•Implemented new tools and methods to assign and evaluate personal results increasing efficiency by 15% and new project monitoring tools that decreased negative impact risks by 60%

Country Human Resources Director at Bombardier Trasnportation
  • Italy
  • January 2001 to January 2004

Rail Vehicles production
Organization and Human Resources management in the Business Units in Italy and member of the Human Resources Group Strategy Committe.
•Change Management and Integration strategy development and implementation
•Re-engineered the production processes and increased yearly locomotives production from 36 to 54 (yearly 80 million euro revenues increase)
•Decreased to zero the legal risks related to the use of asbestos in the past decades production processes
•Produced significant labour cost savings with specific agreements with Unions at Local and National level
•Facilitated the signature of two orders for total 100 locomotives
•Saved 25% of the costs related to the Labour National Insurance (INAIL)
•Restructured the supply chain and obtained efficiency increase by 40%
•Business Development with relationship with Italian Authorities

Operation Director and Human Resources Director at Menarini Farmaceutica IFR
  • Italy
  • January 1999 to January 2001

Human Resources management in the production plants in Italy and in the Headquarter.
Union Relations coordinator for all the Companies of the Group in Italy and in Europe.
Responsible of the productive improvement projects in all the plants.
Main result: Increased productivity of manufacturing processes by 30% (Saving amount = euro 15 millions p. year

Human Resources Director at EDS
  • Ireland
  • July 1995 to December 1998

HR Director of the Italian Engineering Center and ISO9000 responsible for all the Engineering Centers in the World of Electronic Data Systems

Leadership Development Manager at Banca Nazionale del Lavoro S.P.A
  • Italy
  • January 1994 to June 1995
Management Trainer at Isvor Fiat
  • Italy
  • January 1992 to January 1994

Teacher in the technical field and course standardization engineer.

Exchange Market Trader at Bank of Provincia di Naples
  • Italy
  • January 1989 to January 1990

Education

Doctorate, six sigma black belt
  • at H&H
  • September 2018
Doctorate, Engineering
  • at Charter University
  • August 2018
Master's degree, Marketing Strategy
  • at TE.RChicago University
  • March 2012
Master's degree, Business Administration
  • at Business School StoàMIT of Boston
  • May 1991

Doctorate, Law and Economics
  • at University Federico II
  • December 1988

Specialties & Skills

Business Development
Business in China
HR Management
Leadership
Labour Legislation
AUTOMOTIVE
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
CASH FLOW
CHANGE MANAGEMENT
HUMAN RESOURCES
PROCESS ENGINEERING
QUALITY
STRATEGIC

Languages

English
Expert
Italian
Native Speaker
Spanish
Intermediate

Training and Certifications

Web Designer (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2019
Six Sigma Black Belt (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2018

Hobbies

  • painting
    gold medal at European Academy