Giorgio Rossi Cairo

Giorgio Rossi Cairo is an Italian entrepreneur. He is managing director of Value Partners, the management consulting multinational he founded in 1993.

Biography
Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan and graduate of the Executive Program in Finance at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. From 1972 to 1973 he was a CNR researcher at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He subsequently worked until 1978 as Executive Vice President of the Transportation Planning Division at Polytecna Harris, an Italian-American engineering company.[1]

From 1979 to 1992, he was a director of McKinsey & Company and a member of the Principal Candidate Evaluation Committee.[2]

In 1993, he founded Value Partners, a global management consulting firm with 6 offices in 5 countries: Milan (headquarters), London, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

In 2005, he set up Value Team, a system integrator specializing in business-critical IT services. In April 2011, Value Team was sold to NTT DATA.

In 2016, he founded Exage, a company with focus on digital Innovation. Exage helps companies to navigate through the challenges of digital transformation and to manage issues such as cyber security, big data, digital strategy, service design, UX/UI, web and mobile development, communication and social media.

Through Forever, his family’s investment company, Giorgio Rossi Cairo is a partner in four other companies: Maus, a producer of automatic fettling, grinding and vertical turning machines; EcorNaturaSì, a leading distribution and retail company of organic food, Centro Medico Sant’Agostino, a health care services provider, and ItalianCreationGroup, an industrial holding that specializes in home design and luxury Italian lifestyle.