Tobia Beretta

Fabiana Filippi is a family owned business founded in the region of Umbria with 40 years of heritage in the production of luxury knitwear, then developing into a womenswear total look touching all product categories. The brand is internationally recognized for its modern creations and exquisite Made in Italy craftmanship, being distributed in over 60 countries. My role as Managing Director together with our CEO and founder, has a wide set of responsibilities in managing the existing structure, increasing its size and turnover together with its international reputation.

• In charge of all Business Units, including Retail, Wholesale, E-commerce, Marketing&Communication
• Overall direction of business operations, including overseeing cross-functional teams to achieve specific objectives.
• Formulating corporate decisions, ensuring alignment with long-term goals and objectives.
• Planning and negotiating strategic agreements with external partners to foster the companies worldwide development.
• Leading organizational change initiatives to improve operational efficiency and company culture.
• Managing budgets, optimizing financial resources to maximize returns.
• Planning strategies to increase and maximize profits, including market expansion and product innovation.
• Direct management and control of corporate restructuring operations.
• Active participation and management of board meetings.
• Directing internal and external communication strategies.
• Promoting a positive, inclusive, and productive corporate culture.

Antonioli Group is internationally recognized as one of the most prestigious and influential retailers in the luxury and avant garde fashion landscape. The group is active in the following fields:

• Antonioli Luxury Retail: Including 10 phisical multibrand stores in Italy, Spain and Switzerland. Currently on 2 new openings in Asia and Europe.
• Antonioli.eu Ecommerce Platform: One of the leading European digital platforms for luxury and cutting edge brands.
• Antonioli Luxury Consulting: Currently working on 4 major projects in Europe, 2 of which are owned by local governments.
• Antonioli Real Estate: Constantly searching for opportunities to invest, recently closed the acquisition of a new area for a large development in Ibiza together with a similar operation in Milan.
• Dreamers Factory: Our luxury fashion incubator that includes the following brands:
• Ann Demeulemeester: Historical fashion brand founded in Antwerp in 1985 that we purchased in 2020 and have successfully relaunched internationally.
• 44 Label Group: Contemporary streetwear brand that we launched in 2021.
• Antonioli Lifestyle brands that include:
• Sogni: Recently opened restaurant in the heart of Milan that has already become a reference point for fine dining and a sophisticated international clientele.
• Volt Club: Considered among the most iconic electronic music clubs in Europe.
• VLT Agency: Booking agency specialized in discovering new talents in the music field and working with the most important artists present in the market.
• Hotelerie: In this area of our business I am currently working on the creation of a hospitality concept with one of our most important partners for which I am also consulting.

In my position at the side of the founder and President of our Holding, I have the full power and autonomy to trace and determine the strategic development of each of our brands and companies together with the prospection of new business opportunities.

I am currently in the process of expanding our brands presence in Europe, Middle East and Asia.

After almost 4 years of work n the company we have evolved in one of the most important and prestigious Luxury players in Europe, key partners of LVMH and Kering among many others.

Dreamers Factory is a holding we founded in Milan in October 2020 that operates as an incubator of talents in the Fashion and creative field. The first acquisition we made was the brand Ann Demeulemeester with the intent to reposition and relaunch this historical fashion house, part of the original Antwerp 6 group that strongly conditioned the aesthetics of the early 80's and the fashion designers of today. In the first quarter of 2021 we launched our second project, the brand 44 Label Group, a streetwear collection fruit of the collaboration with a leading group of International DJ's lead by Max Kobosil and Matteo Milleri of Tale of Us and After Life. Dreamers factory is currently composed by 60 people divided in Creative, Design, Commercial, Financial, Digital, PR and Marketing, Customer Service, Production, Product and Pattern Development ecc.

Antonioli Group was founded in Milan in 1987 by Claudio Antonioli. Its main focus is on multibrand retail with a network of 9 phisical stores in 3 countries and a leading Worldwide ecommerce platform representing around 220 brands among the most important luxury and avant garde names in the market. Antonioli Group is internationally recongnized for scouting and discovering new trends and talents and is generally considered an opinion leader in the fashion field. The group is also active in Real Estate, Nightlife and Charity. We are now also expanding into F&B and Accomodation, The staff is currently composed of 120 people.

In charge of the worldwide development of all the brands of the group both through the Retail and Wholesale channels reporting directly to the President and CEO. Mainly focused on Neil Barrett main line in particular the men's collections that generated approximately 80% of the total business. I was also in charge of the woman's, accessories and Black Barrett activewear divisions taking these business units back in direct control from previous agreements with agents and distributors. Also in charge of the Neil Barrett kids line that was a very profitable venture since its first collection in 2018. Overall I was managing 500 wholesale accounts worldwide, 33 Franchising boutiques and 2 direct retail operations and our ecommerce platform with a staff of approximately 45 people generating a yearly revenue of 100 milion euros. Most recent projects delivered prior to my exit were 2 new shop in shops in Harrods London and Harvey Nichols Dubai as part of a roll out plan of other 5 new doors in 2020. I was also in charge of developing new business opportunities for the brand through licences and collaborations (Puma, Durex, Li Ning ecc)

Dec 2013 – Nov 2017 Giorgio Armani & Emporio Armani (Luxury&Fashion Division)
Franchisee and Wholesale Business Development Manager for Europe and Emerging Markets at Giorgio Armani & Emporio Armani. I successfully implemented the wholesale and franchising distribution structure of the Armani luxury lines in unexploited markets such as Latin America, India and Africa together with the growth and optimization of the European market with a special focus on Great Britain after its buy back from Club 21. Responsible for 32 mono brand boutiques and approximately 350 wholesale doors including Department Stores, SIS and multi brands.

May 2011 – Dec 2013 Giorgio Armani
Sales Director. Giorgio Armani first line, man and woman collections. In charge of the international wholesale and franchising commercial development for the Black Label of Giorgio Armani. Responsible for the selection of locations and franchisee partners for new GA mono brand and shop in shop openings, commercial strategies, allocation and negotiation of the budgets and coordination of all post sale activities such as customer service, trade marketing, organization of special events also including the presence of Mr Armani.

Partner, Commercial Director. Also in charge of the strategic development, marketing and communication. After completely rebuilding the commercial office of Verri, from February 2008 to the end of the SS11 sales campaign, we passed from 150.000 euro’s to 8 milion revenue. I was also strongly involved in the style, pricing and merchandising structure of our collections and the selection of our producers. I was personally selecting and managing the new partnerships and cooperations in all fields (commercial, distribution, production, merchandising, advertising, marketing & promotion ecc)

Financial and administrative supervisor, project and asset manager, marketing and advertising director. Among the activities I carried out in my family firm: creation and implementation of a financial and administrative software. Quality certification UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 (first architect studio in Italy to obtain the certification) Current cost analysis of the single projects and weekly business plan editing. Creation of the internet site http://www.berettaassociati.it/ Creation of a press release. Weekly on site project management activity, following the major building sites and relations with the clients.

CEO and founder. Analysis of Real Estate investments in the residential, industrial and office field, operating on a nationwide basis. Among the other activities carried out by BECA: Due diligence, asset and property management. Supervision of the technical and administrative activities. Personally in charge of the commercial activities. During the life of BECA Real Estate I was also in the board of directors of the “Fondo Castello” the first family private equity investment fund in Italy created by Banca Esperia in Milan (with a capital of 150 milion euros) that was the principal funding source of the projects approved and purchased by our company.

Analysis of investment opportunities in the residential, industrial and office fields. Commercialization of the the spaces and actively contributed to the constitution of a dedicated agency. Europa Risorse was the Italian branch of Doughty Hanson & Co, an Anglo American investment fund that was one of the major wold wide players in the Real Estate field, investing and developing large mixed use areas in Milan.

Marketing manager with special focus on after sales relationship management also following the top level customers and the special services offered to them by the company. Responsible for the implementation of the CRM software for all USA and Canada. Zegna was one of the first fashion companies to study the CRM techniques and implement a software that was designed to monitor meticulously the habits, needs and requirements of the top level customers (case study for the final thesis of my graduation on Customer Relationship Management)

The main services offered by the company were: Global scenario and benchmarks, Market and Competitive Landscape, Consumption and consumer’s habits, Supply chain structure, Advertising and promotional investments. I was also involved in the research and development of the internet portal “Mymarketingnet.com”and the new software DBWeb for large scale distribution product monitoring, product placement and merchandising. I also completed a Spanish course part time.