I lead the Innovation Enablement team within Wells Fargo's Strategy, Digital, and Innovation

group, focusing on 0–1 opportunities where the path forward isn't yet clear.

We partner with senior leaders across lines of business to identify market opportunities, define

strategic pathways, develop initial prototypes, and establish product roadmaps. My team brings

specialized skills in behavior science, strategic design, and UX design to the table.

We bridge external vendors with internal systems while maintaining an outside-in perspective on

tech, product, digital, and business capabilities. This enables us to manage change, align

stakeholders, and drive enterprise-wide innovation.

Current projects include harnessing AI to scale financial advice, defining RAG/LLM tool experiences,

and imagining collaborative financing models.

The Turin Chamber of Commerce runs a Mentoring program to encourage the exchange of managerial experience on international markets among professionals with Piedmontese roots (or who graduated in Piedmont) and entrepreneurs based in the region.

I was one of the founder members of the program. I have mentored startups in IoT, smart devices, online therapy, travel, and innovation consultancy.

After years of management, I took a complex horizontal senior IC position to identify opportunities (on a 1-2 years timeframe) across product groups and locations in the org. I bring XFN teams together to collaborate and realize explorative projects under the scope of hybrid work, impacting current and future roadmaps. This role balances a tense relationship between being a thought leader who de-risks product development by testing hypotheses — challenging assumptions, reassessing the 'why' and the 'what' — and getting buy-in from product groups that potentially will have their roadmap disrupted by the findings.

Led Calling and Home Experiences for Portal, a category-defining consumer device with no clear product precedent. Navigated high ambiguity to define Portal's strategic direction from video-calling UX to co-experiences, ensuring every interaction created a genuine connection, not just tech novelty.

Co-defined strategy and vision for Portal and Metaverse Persistent Spaces, influencing Meta's 4-year plan and shaping MetaWorks organization

Launched AR experiences (Story Time, Mic Drop) that prioritized bonding over gimmicks. Co-watching achieved 20% user retention vs. Messenger's 6%

Scaled design team from 4 to 15, coached 2 into management, zero attrition during pandemic

Led design for Portal's flagship launch features (Smart Camera, Story Time) during Building 8's mission to create category-defining consumer hardware in emerging spaces (AR, VR, AI). Owned design from early exploration to launch, including audio AR work that informed Ray-Ban Smart Glasses.