Germano Colombo

Germano is a senior advisor with over 25 years of Procurement experience. Currently serving as CPO at the world’s third largest Cruiseline, where he designed the strategic roadmap for procurement excellence, he worked for almost 20 years in Procter&Gamble in the UK, Switzerland and Brazil, as regional CPO at the time of Worldcup and Olympics games. For three years he was CEO of a Health&Beauty CDMO in New York. Swiss and Italian national, Germano has master’s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration and post-grad qualifications in Artificial Intelligence with the MIT, Blockchain technologies with Oxford Said Business School, and…wine with the WSET in London. He is executive in residence at Bocconi Business School in Milan. From his home base of Geneva, he launched a few digital initiatives, and supports startups at different stages of development as co-founder and advisory board member.