Masera, Piero

Piero has more than twenty years of experience in strategic, operational and advisory work with national and international clients in different industry sectors, including automotive, food, retail, healthcare and pharmaceuticals. His areas of expertise include strategic information technology, supply chain management, eProcurement and sourcing, innovation management, business process re-engineering, change management.

Prior to joining AlixPartners, he was a partner with A.T. Kearney and a leader in its Technology & Transformation and Operations and Automotive practices for the Mediterranean Unit. Previously, Piero was at Honeywell Information Systems working on solutions for industrial companies.

Over the years, Piero has effectively developed the capability to transform a strategic vision into operative business solutions in very complex contexts, enabling the implementation of deep transformation processes and the achievement of a significant performance turnaround.

His experience includes the following:

  • Interim CIO position for a major aerospace company implementing a turnaround program in terms of: cost cutting and performance improvement, restructuring ICT Governance, redesigning the new organization and boundaries with other internal functions, supporting the set up of a Group ICT Shared Service
  • IT strategy projects in the automotive, aerospace, food, insurance, healthcare, and pharmaceutical industries
  • Business strategy and IT trends alignment, applications map restructuring, and IT costs turnarounds
  • Advisor of outsourcing contracts for IT services for ICT companies (suppliers) and large corporations (clients)
  • Due diligence and restructuring projects of ICT and Manufacturing companies
  • Large restructuring projects within the Healthcare and University industries on support and core processes
  • Several post merger integration projects in the pharmaceutical and media industries
  • Several restructuring, reengineering and implementation of supply chain processes in automotive, media, retail, food, and pharmaceutical industries


Piero is the co-author of two books, The Digital Market: - Strategies and Models to Win in the New Economy (2000) and Innovation Manual – Strategy, Organization and Technology (2006). He has also written several articles and has been a speaker at numerous events addressing a variety of operations and innovation, healthcare and information technology topics.

Piero holds a degree in mechanical engineering specializing in management from the Politecnico of Milan. He speaks fluent Italian and English and conversational German.