Ing. Alessandro Silvestro

• Client leadership advisor, SME, and consulting engagement lead in the EMEA region • Responsible for the DACH sustainability I4.0 practice, RfPs and proactive pursuits • Driving lean, digital and sustainable approaches for priority accounts • Lead delivery and pre-sales team in developing consulting strategies, designing pilots, and delivering solutions at scale • Identify suitable partners, develop GTM strategies and joint capabilities • Industry events speaker, author of thought leadership articles

• Feb 2021 - Present: occasional freelancing within the academic and professional network, start-up mentoring at startplatz.de. • June 2021 - Sept 2021: Global Head of Operational Excellence in Packaging Company

• Led the global operational excellence team of experts and department managers • Designed, developed and implemented the “Zwilling Production and Performance System" • Achieved millions in efficiency, inventory working capital savings • Launched several smart factory and smart shop floor initiatives • Introduced innovative factory optimization methods from MIT • C-level in-house consultant and coach to country general managers

• Responsible for the end-to-end industrialization of the new Heat Pump programs in Slovakia • Directed the continuous improvement initiatives of existing lines in Remscheid

• Built greenfield and expanded brownfield factories in Eastern Europe • Honored with leadership award for the successfull launch of JIT/JIS interiors programs • Supervised team of 12 process experts, budgeted and managed 20M€+ CapEx Investment • Delivered several millions of Euros in CapEx and OpEx savings • For senior management, involved in global footprint analysis and optimization • Achieved triple (on the job) lean certification

• Implemented and deployed innovative track & trace ERP modules for the EU service platform • Led team of 5 in the operational track & trace roll-out for 6 plants in BeNeLux and 15 plants in Italy • Personally trained 100+ key-users and sales representatives. 400+ end-users affected • Reduced customer litigation, dead stock and improved service level for several thousand customers

Focus: E2E Value Chain Optimization Research Project: How to Plan and Schedule for Profit - An Integrated Model and Application for Complex Factory Operations Activities: MIT SLOAN MBA cross-registration

Erasmus and Thesis at the mechanical engineering department under the Multi-Agent Coordination and Control segment

Project and Innovation Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Virtual and Rapid Industrialization, Design of Experiments, Continuous Technologies Improvement, Production planning and scheduling, Logistics and Queueing theory