Partner
Cristiano Garocchio

Cristiano is a Partner at Key2people, and is responsible for Industry Technology & Digital and Industry Media. He also coordinates all the Digital activities of the Advisory Practice. Cristiano has been leading the development of the Digital Practice since its inception, coordinating Executive Search activities for figures with a strong Digital & Innovation connotation for the main Media Companies, many Digital Pure Players and transversally for all the other Industries. He also conceived and developed the Digital Assessment and structured the approach to Digital Transformation paths.


Having graduated with a classical studies and a humanities degree, he joined a strategic consulting firm specialising in Operations, Supply Chain, Lean Manufacturing and the strategic use of Technology.

In 2005 he joined Key2people, dealing with research in the Manufacturing area, before dedicating himself to the Real Estate Practice, which he helped create and strengthen in all its forms (Financial Real Estate & Investment, Engineering & Construction, Agency, Valuation, Development...).

Since 2008 he has expanded his role to the world of Media and follows its rapid evolution towards New Media, Digital and specific emerging professionalism. Passionate about Digital & Tech trends, Social Networks, Interactive ADV, FinTech and Disruptive Startups, he follows very closely the development of these markets.

He is a member of the Boards of some Pure Players and on the investment committees of other players, as a Business Angel and - more recently - as a Startupper!

Purely humanistic education, with classical and cultural studies.