Europe Management Team

Gaetan is a results driven leader with strong entrepreneurial, people management, operational and analytical skills. Gaetan has more than 15 successful years in the service industry dealing with both public and private sectors. He has lived and worked in Europe, Morocco and United Arab Emirates and has experience in international and multicultural environments.

Prior to joining Serco, Gaetan enjoyed a career at Securitas in Brussels, in Dubai and Casablanca. Gaetan has extensive experience in designing business strategies and developping new services. His most recent role was Country President for Morocco, where he successfully restructured the team, changed the business model, stabilised operations, and led the legal agenda. 

Julie is a highly-effective finance director with 15+ years of experience gained with well-known private firms. Prior to joining Serco, Julie held various leading positions in industrial sector groups, such as Nexans (SBF-120 listed electrical specialist) and Alstom (rail infrastructure). Julie is driven, pragmatic and combines a strong technical background with extensive on-field experience. Her international experience includes work in Belgium, France and the UK

Cristina is a very experienced and multilingual Chief Legal Officer. Prior to joining Serco, Cristina spent over 25 years in leading positions in the legal department of some of the world's largest Telecom and IT groups, such as Oracle, Nokia and Microsoft, as well as in smaller high growth scale-ups and unicorns.  In her last role, Cristina was Chief Legal Officer at OVHcloud, a European Cloud Services provider, heading the global legal department. Her expertise extends to contracts, data protection, governance and compliance in the private and public sector. Cristina is German and Italian, speaks fluently French, Italian, English and German and has work experience from different European countries. 

Arnaud is an experienced manager with an engineering background. Arnaud joined Serco in 1999 as Deputy Contract Manager for one of the largest Industrial Support contract for CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, near Geneva. Between 2001 and 2007, Arnaud became progressively responsible for all Serco operations on the CERN sites and in France.

Since September 2008, Arnaud is France General Manager, overseeing Serco operations with the CERN near Geneva, with Oracle and the European Space Agency (ESA) in Paris and with the French Space Agency (CNES) in French Guiana.

Michael Schnitzler joined Serco in July 2024 and has since been responsible for Immigration at Serco Europe. Michael brings a wealth of experience from his previous role as Regional Director for Central Europe at G4S Secure Solutions AG. He possesses broad expertise in business-to-government relations and is adept at managing sensitive operations. An enthusiastic triathlete, he was born in Austria and has recently moved to Switzerland, where ORS – A Serco Company is headquartered in Zurich.

 

 

Roberto has spent most of his professional life in IBM, where he developed his career across several sectors. Roberto has a broad expertise in IT software and services industry, governments, consumer electronics, travel and transportation, consumer packaged goods and retails, banking and insurances as well as energy & utilities.

Roberto has successfully led a number of business areas and people, and has achieved significant results in new business start-ups, merger of products, and contracts sales growth. Roberto joins Serco in November 2017 as Italy General Manager.

Guido is a Aerospace Engineer with a Ph.D. in Space Science and Technologies. He joined Serco in 2006 in support to the Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE Earth Explorer mission) and has since held several technical positions for a large number of European Space Agency (ESA) projects in the frame of both Earth Explorers and Copernicus Missions. 

Through the years, Guido has built a solid professional experience in the management and coordination of several European Commission, ESA and national funded projects in the domain of remote sensing, and also published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals and specialised magazines. In 2015 he joined the Serco Europe Business Development team and in 2018 he was appointed Director of Space Business Development for Serco Europe.

Should you have any question about our Space business and operations, please get in touch with Guido here.