Based in Milan, Francesca Fiore is a member of Spencer Stuart’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications and Digital practices. She is also a member of the Supply Chain Practice in Europe. Francesca has held several board director roles before joining Spencer Stuart and she is an advisor of a venture capital fund created to accelerate the development of innovative startups in Italy. Most recently, she was a member of the supervisory board at Vodafone Germany. Until 2015, she was a non-executive director at Seat Pagine Gialle, an Italian internet company. After an initial career in consulting with McKinsey & Company, where she focused on telecommunications and consumer goods, Francesca held executive roles with Vodafone Group both locally in Italy and globally, managing customer relationship management, value added services, supply chain and terminals. Francesca holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Naples and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also earned a Bachelor of Science in psychology and a master’s degree in developmental psychology from the University of Milano-Bicocca. A native Italian speaker, she also speaks fluent English and conversational French and Spanish.