Elena Bianchini
About

Elena Bianchini

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.

The full path
Vodafone
17 years
Head of Product

From the Consumer segment to Large Corporate, in Italy and at Group level.

lastminute.com
Product org of 28
Product leadership

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.

Zalando
Product org of 40
Product leadership

Led a cross-functional product organization of 40 people.

Facile.it
Product org of 27
Product leadership

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.

Ivory7
AI platform industrialization

Industrialized a no-code AI platform: first pilot to production in six months, with a 60–80% delivery cost reduction.

Algorand Labs
Governance co-design

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.

Loquis
Today
Chief Product Officer

AI is the team's standard operating model — coding agents, automated testing, marketing automation — compressing product cycles from three months to one.

Politecnico di Milano, GSoM
Faculty

Teaches “AI for SMEs” at the Graduate School of Management, where she earned her own engineering degree in Information Engineering and Management.

Boards & mentorship

In The BoardRoom alumna (Valore D, 2019), European Women on Board mentor, pro-bono contributor to GirlsRestart.

Let’s talk

Let’s transform together.

Available for senior executives, board and strategic advisory.

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