Claudio Antonelli

SUMMARY

Senior executive with verifiable year-after-year success achieving revenue, profit, and business growth objectives within start-up, turnaround, and rapid-change environments. Extensive experience with highly engineered systems, which require deep understanding of critical business drivers in multiple markets and industries; highly successful in building relationships with upper-level decision makers, seizing control of critical problem areas, and delivering on customer commitments. Customer focused and performance-driven. Led and motivated worldwide teams comprised of more than 2,000 employees and managed P&L for business divisions exceeding $400 million revenue.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Turned around an underperforming $410 million global division, streamlining 4 business units around a coherent commercial and operational worldwide strategy, restoring profitability, producing higher-than-market revenue gains, winning market share in strategic and emerging international regions, and delivering double-digit EBITA growth.
• Reversed losses into profits, serving as catalyst for growth and expansion of struggling $80 million division; quickly restored forward momentum, generating year-over-year revenue gains and profits at steady 20% return-on-sales.
• Integrated 6 acquired companies into a worldwide $300 million division that outpaced competitors, maximized share of strategic markets, and elevated earnings. Drove return-on-sales to height of 12%, championed 2 new acquisitions, and restructured operations for maximum cost savings and efficiency.
• Transformed the poorest-performing business unit company-wide into a top-performer generating $60 million sales and 12% profits (and growing) in period of just 3 years. Regained control of the top end of the market and introduced new cost-effective solutions that enabled expansion into additional high-potential markets