Business, technology and people.
General management, industrial rail assets and international markets. A professional path that began with software and grew through entrepreneurship and rail logistics. Alongside these responsibilities, I am actively involved in industry associations, representing and defending sector interests in dialogue with Italian and European institutions.
Senior Director, Global Strategic
Business Development · VTG
As the founder of Loginformatica, I developed software and websites for businesses.
Among those projects, I created the management software used by SoGeTank to manage its wagon fleet. This work connected software development with the practical needs of a railway business.
That connection remains part of my professional perspective: understanding the activity first, then choosing and building the tools that serve it.
Over more than 25 years, I have worked on the commercial, operational and organisational dimensions of industrial businesses. My responsibilities have included profit and loss, teams, investments, market development and relationships with industry institutions.
Business planning, P&L responsibility, teams and organisational coordination.
International markets, commercial development and strategic partnerships.
Fleet strategy, investment priorities and alignment with market demand.
Software, automation and the application of AI to business activities.
Strategic business development across international rail freight and logistics activities, with a focus on market positioning, growth opportunities and partnerships.
The role also includes the application of AI to business processes, commercial decision-making and market responsiveness.
European responsibility for Intermodal and Bulk activities: fleet strategy, asset allocation, commercial steering and performance management.
The scope included budgets, forecasts, investment priorities and the integration of the Bulk and Intermodal teams, within a segment of more than 36,000 wagons.
Management responsibility for the Italian market, including legal representation, sales, profit and loss, budgeting, forecasting and risk management.
Led a team of more than 30 professionals across wagon leasing and rail logistics, coordinating commercial and organisational activities.
Area Manager Italy from March 2011 to September 2014, followed by General Manager / Area Manager Italy from October 2014 to December 2015.
Responsibilities covered commercial and operational activities, customer relationships and business development, followed by full area responsibility for sales, profit and loss and legal representation.
Full business responsibility for strategy, investments, commercial expansion and company performance.
Expanded operations into Germany, the Czech Republic and Austria, and managed the sale of the business to VTG Aktiengesellschaft.
IT Developer / Head of IT & Network Security from December 1999 to December 2003: internal IT systems, databases and network security.
Sales Manager from January 2004 to June 2006, with responsibility for commercial development and marketing activities.
Founded Loginformatica, developing software and websites for corporate clients.
Created the management software used by SoGeTank to manage its wagon fleet.
Executive Board Member since 2013. European representation of wagon keepers.
Vice President since 2022. Transport and logistics industry representation.
President, 2015–2019. Vice President, 2010–2015 and since 2019.
The story we leave behind is written in the relationships we build as well as the results we achieve.
Guido Gazzola
I believe that the ability of an entrepreneur or manager can no longer be assessed solely through past results. The technological acceleration of the last five years calls for leaders who can combine the potential of technology with a human and personal approach to management.
People need to find meaning in their individual contribution, and to receive recognition and respect. For me, these are integral to how an organisation is managed and to the relationships it builds over time.
I do not regard replacing people as the objective of automation. The success of a modern business should be measured by the value it creates for people through technology. Automation is a tool: its role is to support human purposes, using the most suitable means for the task.
As processes become shorter, the energy and creativity that people can contribute should find new scope. I see an opportunity to extend the products and services a business offers while remaining faithful to its original mission.
I see the future of businesses across sectors in the horizontal integration of products and services connected to their primary activity. Strategic and functional interdependencies can strengthen the overall offering and make fuller use of shared capabilities and economies of scale.
Three experiences that illustrate different parts of my work: company development, country management and the coordination of European activities.
Our app development activities grew out of a small team that decided, as a hobby, to begin a new adventure. Within SabettaWorks, we bring together interests and skills to develop applications and digital services.
VidiVadi is one of the projects we are developing together, focused on travel planning and navigation.
Our work brings together product definition, software development and the use of AI to support planning and access to travel information.
Travel planning · Navigation · AIA book exploring the limits of automation and the implications of artificial intelligence for work, the economy and society.
It develops a line of inquiry that accompanies my interest in technology: how its uses affect organisations, people and economic relationships.
Artificial intelligence · Economy · SocietyOur team’s applications and digital projects are developed within SabettaWorks.
Writing gives me a way to examine the relationship between technology, work and society in greater depth. The economic and social effects of artificial intelligence are a recurring subject of this interest.
Software development connects my early experience with an interest I now share with a small team. We began developing apps as a hobby; our work is an opportunity to experiment, learn and turn ideas into usable tools.
For professional opportunities, executive search enquiries or a discussion about my experience, you can contact me directly by email.
guido.gazzola@gmail.com