Luca Martini
Luca Martini
Partner, Head of EY-Parthenon for CESA and EMEIA Emerging Markets
EY, Greece
Luca is a Partner responsible for EY Strategy Practice/Parthenon for Central, East and South Europe. Under Parthenon sit three EY key competences: strategy, Transaction Strategy and Restructuring. He is a seasoned strategist practitioner, having led a large number of strategy and transaction projects over the last 31 years. He worked 7 years at Accenture Strategy, 20 years at McKinsey & Co. Recently he has been responsible for PWC Advisory in South East Europe. Based in Milan, Madrid, Sydney and Ljubljana, he served clients in Western Europe, Americas and Australasia (he has been based in Sydney 9 years) and Eastern Europe.
Sector / functional focus
Luca has extensive experience in advising Financial Institutions on a broad set of matters like growth, restructuring, performance improvement, cost transformation. Luca worked extensively in the FS sector across multiple geographies and with Firm leadership roles. In particular:
► 2022 Leads strategy practice for EMEIA Emerging markets
► 2020 Leads strategy practice (including FS) in Central Eastern and South Europe
► 2014-15 Head of European Recovery and Transformation for Financial Services at McKinsey
► 2010-2014 Head of Financial Services in Australia at McKinsey
► 2007-2010 Head of Financial Services / Risk Management in Spain and Portugal at McKinsey
Selection of experience
► Multiple Corporate / Business Unit strategy formulation projects for Banks in Europe, Asia and Latam.
► Several Performance Improvement projects aiming at improving the top line of Financial Services through productivity increase, cross selling improvement and pricing strategies
► Strategic cost transformation programs, acting as a CTO in Europe and Australia.
► Large scale digitalisation initiatives aiming at increasing the CX, underpinning sales and reducing churn. Including E2E automation and digitlisation of processes.
► Creation of Real Estate Ecosystem in Spain and Australia
► Multiple M&A / PMM in the FS space. Spanning from merger plan, synergies identification, target operating model deign and synergies realisation through strict PMM
► Introduction of VBM at corporate level
► Turnaround of distressed companies in the banking and grocery space
► Growth strategies in the beverage sector in Europe and Australia
► Several IT strategy projects in the FS sector
► Build up of new exchange venues