What makes us different

Bernardo Bertoldi · Chairman · Co-founder

Professor of Business Strategy and of Entrepreneurial and Family Business Strategy at the University of Turin, co-founder of 3HPartners and Chairman of 3H Consulting.

After his PhD in Management and Entrepreneurial Finance, he developed his work on entrepreneurship, family firms and family capitalism, completing his education at Harvard Business School. His work lies at the intersection of academic research and entrepreneurial practice – a balance built over more than twenty years of experience, studying family firms and supporting business families, family companies and management teams in governance, strategy, growth and generational continuity.

He is a columnist for Il Sole 24 Ore, with the weekly column familyandtrends on “Family capitalism and strategic Trends”. He is also a founding member and Vice President of the Club degli Investitori, a member of the scientific committee of AIDAF (the Italian Family Business Association) and a member of CIFE – Cambridge Institute for Family Enterprise, founded by John Davis of Harvard Business School.

His publications include case studies at Harvard Business School and two books – Manager di Famiglia and Figli di Papà – focusing on succession, governance and leadership in family businesses.

Roberta Delmastro · Chief Executive Officer

Roberta is the CEO of 3H Consulting: her connection with 3H goes back to its origins and has grown stronger from 2016 to today. Her background in Engineering and her PhD in Management from the University of Turin – with a thesis on the business model and distinctive DNA of family firms – are enriched by research and co-teaching in executive education programmes at ESCP Europe. She has built her career combining method, practicality and a constant focus on results – the same combination she looks for every day in the projects she leads with her clients and her team.

In recent years, also thanks to her work with Bernardo, she has developed specific expertise in family firms and family business dynamics.

Since 2005 she has worked across strategic consulting and executive education, supporting multinationals, entrepreneurial companies and management teams through times of major change and growth: reorganisations, turnarounds, capability building, new business models, strategic plans and new market challenges. Her projects include the turnaround of a historic company in the spa and tourism sector, the redesign of the market access model for a multinational pharmaceutical group, and a capability building and change management programme for a leading private banking group.

Her career has not been limited to consulting: for three years she held an internal executive role as Corporate Development Manager in an industrial group in the textile and fashion sector, reporting directly to the CEO during a phase of deep transformation and sitting on the group’s Leadership Team – an experience that let her see organisational dynamics from the inside, not only as an external advisor.

She has gained solid cross-industry experience in sectors such as banking and private banking, tourism, consumer goods, energy & utilities, fashion, retail and services – including a direct entrepreneurial experience as manager of a waste-to-energy start-up. Her career combines strategic consulting, project leadership, executive education and support for transformation and growth.

Alongside her consulting work, she serves as a Board Member of several innovative companies. She is the author of the book Change Management and Organisational Transformation (McGraw Hill, 2012).