Francesca is an entrepreneurial executive with over 15 years of experience in marketing, brand transformation, M&A, and P&L ownership across consumer goods and retail. She served as Marketing Director at Clarins Italy, where she led a brand turnaround that brought the company to the number two skincare ranking in Italy in under two years, and built the trade marketing function at Pandora Italy. She also led the M&A exit process for a family business at Intek, working alongside Ernst & Young on deal structuring and positioning. Francesca holds an MBA from ESSEC Business School and has completed executive education at the University of Oxford.