Healthcare >> CEO Interviews >> March 29, 1999

Fabrizio Landi – Esaote Spa (esa)

FABRIZIO LANDI graduated in Bioengineering at the Politecnico University of Milan (Italy) in 1977. One year after graduation, he joined the Italian subsidiary of Miles Inc.( a member of Bayer group). In 1981 he joined a strategic working group created within Ansaldo to study the possibility of a business diversification in medical electronics: after the decision to implement within Ansaldo the medical electronics new venture, he started to get responsibilities, within the Biomedical Division of Ansaldo, mainly in marketing and sales and later in the different business organisations that today have become the Esaote Group. Today, further to managing responsibilities in the different companies of the Group, he is General Manager for Sales and Marketing & product Development of Esaote, he is also one of the company's shareholders, member of the shareholders' syndicate together with the other managers of the company and Bracco S.p.A. Outside the Esaote group, Mr. Landi is on the Board of Directors of Bracco Diagnostic Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of the Baracco Group (Milan, Italy). The Esaote Group based in Italy includes today six international subsidiaries with exports equal to the 60% of total revenues and a sales volume in excess of 300 billion Lire. Profile
TWST: Give me a brief overview of Esaote?

Mr. Landi: Our mission is to develop and sell world-wide products for

the medical community in the field of diagnostic imaging and

particularly in