Gaia Francieri

Gaia Francieri heads the Communication and Business Development team at Chiomenti, a leading Italian Law Firm that has more than 300 lawyers across its international offices. She is in charge of Chiomenti’s business development strategy, and managed the implementation of the firm’s new visual identity, new website and the mobile application launch.

Gaia is founding partner and vice president of the unique “Marketing the Professional Services Association” in Italy (www.mopi-italia.org). She is also a member of the Working Group on Marketing at University Bocconi Alumni Association. Gaia is also the creator and coordinator of the SheMOPI think tank group and organizer of round tables with the City of Milan and the Milan Stock Exchange. Gaia created and was the lead administrator of the Gender Balance in the Professional Services survey.

Gaia is also the creator of the Procurement Services Think Tank group and co-ordinator of its activities. She has been a speaker at several events on procurement services and served as moderator at closed door meetings between senior procurement executives of legal services of the major national and international financial institutions, and companies in Italy.

She regularly teaches courses at the Italian National Bar Association on communications, organisation and business development.

She is co-author of the book “Business Development for Professional Firms” edited by Alpha Test – 2016