Elena Bianchini is a product executive with 20+ years building and scaling digital products used by 200M+ people across four European markets: Vodafone, lastminute.com, Zalando and Facile.it.
She is CPO at Loquis, where AI is the team’s standard operating model and product cycles have gone from three months to one. Before that, at Ivory7, she industrialized a no-code AI platform: first pilot to production in six months, with a 60–80% delivery cost reduction. She teaches “AI for SMEs” at Politecnico di Milano’s Graduate School of Management, where she earned her engineering degree. In The BoardRoom alumna (Valore D) and EWOB mentor.
From the Consumer segment to Large Corporate, in Italy and at Group level.
Built the post-sale journey from scratch and grew cross-selling by 150% with an end-to-end checkout and post-sales redesign, across four markets. The “Infinite Loader” — continuous in-loading feedback — recovered a further 10% completion once metrics were paired with direct observation.
Led a cross-functional product organization of 40 people.
Lifted insurance funnel conversion from 30% to 70% over four focused iterations on an Opportunity Solution Tree, and validated a new pet-insurance line from zero.
Industrialized a no-code AI platform: first pilot to production in six months, with a 60–80% delivery cost reduction.
Co-designed blockchain governance with the Bank of Italy's Innovation Hub for BTP tokenisation — settlement proven in under 3 seconds in test, with scope deliberately paused on judgment rather than pushed to launch.
AI is the team's standard operating model — coding agents, automated testing, marketing automation — compressing product cycles from three months to one.
Teaches “AI for SMEs” at the Graduate School of Management, where she earned her own engineering degree in Information Engineering and Management.
In The BoardRoom alumna (Valore D, 2019), European Women on Board mentor, pro-bono contributor to GirlsRestart.
Available for senior executives, board and strategic advisory.
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