Functional Skills

Product Design
Sales Enablement
Product Marketing
Leadership Development
Product Development
Finance Transformation
Integration Management (IMO)
Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
Innovation Management
Marketing Strategy
Business Analysis
Change Management / Org Design
Go-to-market Strategy
Product Data Management

Software Skills

Outlook
Salesforce

Sector Experience

Business Services
Energy
Industrials
Manufacturing
Technology

Languages

English
Italian
French
Portuguese
Spanish
Fortune 500

Experience

CXO Partners Marketing
Interim Chief Marketing Officer
1/2023 - Present
Global B2B Interim CMO and Coach specialized in industrial marketing strategy, lean processes & technology:
• Product Marketing, Product Launches, Demand Generation, Pricing, Revenue Growth. Strategic Marketing
• Migration from Physical Products to SaaS Products
• Change Management, Lean Processes and Systems. Six Sigma and Hoshin-Kanri
• Sales Enablement
• M&A - From Strategy to post-merger Integration

IDEX Marketing
Chief Marketing Officer
1/2020 - 12/2022
Led the Global Marketing teams in US, NL, India. Focused on marketing excellence, innovation, revenue growth.
• Transformed the Global Product Marketing organization in three continents to build a cohesive, results focused, collaborative team. Doubled team intercommunication, best practices sharing and teamwork
• Simplified the Solutions project quoting and order handling process using AI to reduce complexity by 40%
• Launched an AI based industrial machinery product line (Tintelligence) that transformed the painting industry
• Developed new AI based lead generation models, stronger branding strategy, and more effective distribution channels to increase NPI first year sales by 37%

IMI plc Marketing
VP of Product Marketing
9/2017 - 1/2020
Responsible for Transformation of the Process Automation business. Reported to General Manager
• Fully reorganized the Marketing organization and processes. Created a Global Customer Centric, Innovation Focused Product Marketing team. Increased customer facetime by 47%
• Executed the Marketing Hoshin-Kanri Policy Deployment process for three major product launches
• Improved Go-to-Market, Product Launches and Pricing, increasing profitability by 9%
• Created and deployed New AI/IoT product Ideation process to achieve 35% Product Vitality
• Established a full set of Sales & Marketing KPIs and Dashboard to provide critical lagging and leading business indicators and lead to corrective actions if required BARRESI HECTOR BARRESI

Bruel & Kjaer Vibro / Spectris Marketing
Global Product Marketing Director
10/2010 - 8/2017
Responsible for Global Product Marketing transformation in 4 countries. Served the O&G, Metals, Mining, Power Gen. and Chemical markets. Selling Wind Turbine Monitoring Solutions. Reported to the President.
• Transformed the New Product Development and Manufacturing process for smart sensors. Reduced product development cycle by average 23% and expected cost by 11%
• Launched new line of Wind Turbine Monitoring platform and associated Services (Uptime as a Service)
• Created the "Customer Satisfaction Mgr." role. Obtained $8M order from large Power Generation company

General Electric Marketing
Global Product Marketing Director
2/2008 - 9/2010
Leader of Product Marketing and of the integration of 3 companies. Selling Machine Health Monitoring Systems. Reported to President
• Integrated after merger and re-organized the Product Marketing team.
• Led Lean product design project along with Engineering and Manufacturing. Reduced product cost by 14%
• Streamlined New Product Development process. Cut product development time by 9%

Danaher Marketing
Product Marketing Manager
4/2005 - 1/2008
Responsible for global product and marketing strategy. Reported to General Manager.
• Build the Water Analytics Marketing organization
• Launched new Analyzers family for the water, mining &metals segments for an incremental revenue of $31m/yr
• Expanded into industrial market. Increased revenue by $40m/yr
• Broadened product portfolio with brand new "Laser" and "LED" based analyzers to reclaim 45% market share
• Completion of three major VAVE projects to simplify manufacturing process of complex equipment

Honeywell International Marketing
Business Manager
1/1999 - 3/2005
• Developed and launched the first range of industrial wireless sensors in the industry, the XYR-5000
• Created the Honeywell Application Center of Excellence (ACE)