Matteo Veneziani (Italy) is IT Director at Expo 2015 since 2009. He started at Andersen Consulting, then moved to Olivetti where he was in charge of organization, processes and information systems in the Finance department. He became Managing Director Assistant & Planning Manager at FIV Bianchi Bicycles before returning to Accenture where he acted as Service Manager in several Shared Services Projects.

From 2000 to 2003 he worked for Bain, Cuneo e Associati and he was engaged in several projects as consultant. In 2003 he joined AEM where he designed, implemented and managed the Administrative Shared Services Centre of the Group and realized several project in process reengineering.

In 2006 he became IS Director of Lombardini Group where he managed the reorganization of the IT department and some important projects (Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity, renewal of point of sales systems, IT strategic plan). In Expo, Matteo Veneziani plans, designs implemented both the IT department (IT strategy and governance, IT organization, IT processes, IT business plan and reporting) and the IT systems. In 2012, he won the CIONET Italia Award in the category Strategy-Driven CIO.

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