Luca Ferraro

Head of Global Transformation VI. • Lead the carve-out of the business unit, guiding its transition to a standalone entity with focus on value creation • Coordinate cross-functional teams and regional leads to ensure efficient execution and alignment during the transition • Implement a structured process to minimize disruptions, optimize asset value, and maintain business continuity • Oversee critical separations involving assets, contracts, and relationships to ensure the new entity's independent operation

Shaping the future of the Global Operations department, I contribute to defining the efficiency strategy that fuels revenue growth and ensures market competitiveness for Vascular Intervention drug-device combinations, including stents, balloons, scaffolds, catheters, and guide wires.

• Managed the tech transfer project at a key CMO from preparation to validation, leading the internal activities related to the external manufacturer such as change management, critical deviations, and CAPAs • Provided strategic insights and business analyses to senior management on operations strategy, global site strategy, and portfolio management • Managed cross-functional teams of SMEs, ensuring seamless collaboration and project success

Commercialization and commercial strategy for the life sciences industry.

Partner of 100+ Fortune 500 clients, SAI MedPartners guides strategy development by combining commercial expertise with an intensive, field-oriented research methodology. Part of the European team, I delivered global strategic projects covering a range of therapeutic areas including neurology, diabetes, vaccines, cardio-renal-metabolic, anti-infectives, rare diseases, transformative medicines (cell / gene therapy), immunology, and oncology.

With 4 locations and more than 120 employees nationwide, trio-group is one of the top 30 owner-managed marketing firms in Germany. My duties included account management and project coordination in the brand and product management fields.

Fellow of the Life Sciences and Healthcare Team. • Implemented marketing, market access, and sales projects for pharmaceutical companies solving some of their most pressing problems • Designed, executed, and delivered strategic consulting projects • Worked independently and in team setting, guiding and developing junior team members • Planned, moderated and followed up on client workshops • Executed market research to formulate and test hypotheses developing recommendations for client management

Ensured support to senior consultants in marketing, market access, and sales strategic projects through different activities and tasks: • Planned and organized projects’ timelines and resources • Managed relationships with internal and external experts • Designed data processing activities

• Processed database and performance indicators to provide strategic insights • Produced periodic reports to improve decision making • Implemented customer business processes, collaborating with a large number of internal and external stakeholders • Analyzed markets and sectors through accurate key information researches

Authored 2 chapters of #CURE2CARE, the essay defining the algorithm that allows healthcare stakeholders to measure the social and economic value of the Italian community pharmacies. • 100+ Italian pharmacists involved • Moderated and facilitated 2 workshops • Content analysis

Directly reporting to the Marketing Director, I worked on the development of the Trade Marketing department • Defined 7 strategic partnerships with pharma companies, implemented in the Experta pharmacy chain • Improved Experta pharmacies’ data analysis system (database set up, KPI identification, reporting)

Carried out the experimental thesis research project, centered around the analysis of the antioxidant activity of Extra Virgin Olive Oils. Main tasks: • Presented the results of the experiments to supervisors and peers • Executed quality-quantitative analysis on 40+ samples of olive oils • Accurate and comprehensive recording of the experimental works • Managed laboratory instrumentation independently (data analysis and data collection) • Purified the compounds and characterized the raw products

• Conducted retail sales activities: relationship with 100+ people/day • Assessed the patients’ compliance to therapies • Carried out preparations of galenic drugs (capsules, creams, solutions)

• Drug development and approval strategies • Marketing global strategies • Post-approval evaluations • Emerging medical technologies

Recipient of the SDA Bocconi merit-based tuition scholarship Ranked 3rd best European Business School by FT in 2019

Grade: 110/110 cum Laude Winner of the Master’s Thesis Award Master’s Thesis: Hydroxytyrosol and total polyphenols in EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil): analysis of the antioxidant activity (13/13)