Marco Piermartiri, one of our EMBA Alumni, was recently appointed as Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the Geneva Chamber of Commerce, after an exciting career going from consultancy and entrepreneurship to telecom and digital transformation. Marco had already valuable touch-points with Chamber of Commerce, having collaborated with them as a Telecom and Digital transformation expert respectively in 2003 and in 2017. A professional marriage that was meant to happen?
Graduated from Business School Lausanne in 2000, Marco is a seasoned B2B and Digital transformation expert with a background in engineering who started his career with Swisscom when the company was still State-owned, climbing to the Director position of Enterprise Solutions in 1999.
Throughout his career, Marco covered executive roles as well as the role of entrepreneur: In 2005 he was Vice-President of Integrated Solutions (a local IT services company), selling the company and running the executive operations of the bigger buying firm, Business&Decision, where he managed to raise the numbers by three times (revenues, profits, collaborators) and to open subsidiaries in various cities throughout Switzerland. An important milestone in his career that set up the foundation for his own business consulting firm, ONDACO, which saw the light of the day in 2012.
Since a few weeks, a new chapter of his professional career has started, taking the lead on the business operations of the Chamber of Commerce in Geneva. The most exciting challenge is for him to transition from consulting to action, this new position will be a great way to provide tangible help to established companies, as well as recently launched enterprises and young entrepreneurs. Considering that the Geneva Chamber of Commerce is an absolutely independent and private economic association, although having a non-profit status, it actually operates as any private company does.
BSL congratulates Marco on this new adventure, being positive that once again he will keep our flag flying high.
Daniele Ticli – Head of Careers & Industry Relations
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