Group Management
Stefano Bartolini
Group CEO
Stefano Bartolini
Group CEOStefano Bartolini, born in Pesaro in 1964, is married with one son. He graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from the Faculty of Engineering at “La Sapienza” University in Rome, and subsequently completed his studies at SDA-Bocconi.
He spent the first part of his working life at the Biesse Group: a leading international company in the design and construction of machine tools for wood, glass, stone, and other commonly used materials. Within this company, he covered the following roles: Business Unit Director, Industrial Director, and Group Technical Director. He then became the Organisational Transformation Manager of Cefla (a multibusiness cooperative company), while simultaneously serving as Technical and R&D Director at the Cefla Finishing Business Unit. Furthermore, he became Managing Director of the Shopfitting Business Unit at Cefla. The latter is a leader in the design and construction of sales outlets for both Large Scale Retailing and Large Scale Specialised Retailing.
He joined TECHNOLOGIES in 2020 with the role of Group Engineering Director. In June 2022 he was appointed Group CEO, maintaining interim responsibility for the Engineering/R&D area.
Marino Ferrarese
Group Sales, Marketing & Service Director
Marino Ferrarese
Group Sales, Marketing & Service DirectorMarino Ferrarese, born in Padua in 1970, got married in 2004 and has one son. He graduated as an Electrical Engineer from Milan’s Politecnico University and spent the first 6 years of his career working for the Swiss-Swedish multinational ABB, where – after two years – he became the Service Manager. Furthermore, he was responsible for managing the installation as well as service of power transformers on the global market. He then worked for 7 years in the Finnish multinational Glaston (a manufacturer of machine tools for flat glass processing). He covered various roles within this company, including After Sales Business Unit Director (managing a global service organisation), and finally Machines Business Unit Director, managing Sales, Product Management as well as Product Development. Before joining IMS TECHNOLOGIES Group as Group Sales & Marketing Director, he spent 7 years working as General Manager at the Italian branch of the German group STAHLWILLE.
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Marcello Mariano
Group Chief Financial Officer
Marcello Mariano
Group Chief Financial OfficerMarcello Mariano, born in Naples in 1987, lives in Milan with his wife and their daughter. He graduated in Economics at LUISS University in Rome. After almost 2 years in Ernst and Young as external auditor, he joined the Consolidated Financial Statements Team in Tenova (Techint Group), where he has worked for about 3 years. During this experience he had the chance to travel to the several subsidiaries of the Group developing several Finance and Administration projects (Managerial Report, ERP Roll-out Support, etc…).
He joined Coeclerici Group in October 2015 as Financial Reporting Manager and, after some years holding the roles of Finance and Administration Manager for Coeclerici Commodities and Finance and Administration Manager for IMS TECHNOLOGIES, in January 2020 he was appointed as Chief Financial Officer of IMS TECHNOLOGIES with finance responsibilities over Coeclerici Industry Division.
Alessandro Pegorin
Group Operations Director
Alessandro Pegorin
Group Operations DirectorBorn in 1977, married with two children.
With a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Milan’s Politecnico University, he has dedicated himself since the beginning of his career to coordinating the activities of production departments. For more than ten years he has worked at Tenova Pomini, a world leader in the production of grinding machines, initially as a Production Engineer and later as an Industrialization Manager and Production Manager. Before assuming the role of Operations Director of the Italian production site in Castellanza (Varese) he spent three years abroad as the Operations Director of Tenova Timec, Tenova’s plant in China. Since 2016 he has held the position of Plant Manager in Pietro Carnaghi, a leading international machine tool manufacturer. Since February 2022, he has been the Operations Manager at IMS TECHNOLOGIES.
Gian Tommaso Franchi
Group Purchasing Director
Gian Tommaso Franchi
Group Purchasing DirectorGian Tommaso Franchi, born in 1973, lives in Legnano (Milan) and has two children. He graduated in Management Engineering from LIUC University in Castellanza.
After four years as Buyer and Production Office Planner in O.M.P., in 2003 he joined Tenova within the POMINI Division, where he covered different roles, from Senior Buyer to Chief Lead Buyers, and had many responsibilities, also in strategic projects both in the logistics and in the purchasing departments.
From 2013 to 2023 he held the position of Procurement Director in Pietro Carnaghi, where he was in charge of operational purchasing processes and strategic investments, with managerial functions as member of the company’s Technical Committee. Since January 2023 he has been Group Purchasing Director at IMS TECHNOLOGIES.
Subsidiaries Management
Tobias Lanksweirt
Managing DirectorGOEBEL Schneid- und Wickelsysteme GmbH (Germany)
Tobias Lanksweirt
Managing DirectorGOEBEL Schneid- und Wickelsysteme GmbH (Germany)
Tobias Lanksweirt, born in Heidenheim a.d. Brenz in 1983, is married with two children. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He has worked for almost five years for Schenck Process GmbH as a Project Manager in Vibrating and Screening Technologies. He joined IMS TECHNOLOGIES in July 2014 as Area Sales Manager for GOEBEL Schneid- und Wickelsysteme GmbH in Darmstadt. After several years holding the positions of Sales Manager Paper & Board and Sales Director Film, he was appointed as Managing Director for the German branch GOEBEL Schneid- und Wickelsysteme GmbH in February 2021. At the same time, he has kept the role of Sales Director for the Film Business Unit of GOEBEL IMS.
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Francesco Pece
General ManagerIMS TECHNOLOGIES Inc. (USA)
Francesco Pece
General ManagerIMS TECHNOLOGIES Inc. (USA)
Francesco Pece was born in 1987 in Milan, Italy. He received a Bachelor Degree in Economics and a Master Degree in Business Administration at HULT International Business School in San Francisco, USA.
He has worked in Guangzhou, China for three years for the subsidiary of an Italian corporation specializing in luxury packaging. There he held the position of Quality Supervisor first and then as a Quality Assurance Manager.
After several work experiences in Namibia, Russia, Australia, Italy and USA, Francesco joined the Group in 2018 in the Customer Service Department.
In 2019 he was sent to the United States to open the company’s subsidiary and in 2021 he was appointed General Manager in charge of both North and South America markets.