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Giacomo Bracci Helsen

AI Strategy & Transformation Executive

I turn AI strategy into operating reality that customers feel and CFOs can measure.

18 years | €59M+ enterprise impact | 4 continents | Multilingual

WHAT I DO

I work with organizations three ways: as permanent executive, fractional strategic partner, or board advisor. Same core mission: turn AI strategy into systems, behaviors, and results that last.

HOW I WORK

Permanent Executive
I lead AI-driven transformation as embedded executive. You get a leader who understands design, strategy, and execution, so AI shows up in revenue and margin, not just roadmaps. Long-term ownership, not temporary engagement.

Fractional Advisory
I design how your team thinks about AI and competes. I bring architecture, you execute it. C-level strategy at fractional cost, no full-time executive needed. My frameworks scale with you.

Strategic Advisory
While your board worries about AI risk, I identify where it actually shifts market power. Then I build the execution blueprint so you move faster than your competitors without breaking.

ABOUT ME

Design strategist turned AI transformation leader. I measure what actually works, not what looks good on slides.

The pattern I see: AI fails when organizations don't redesign how work actually happens, how systems talk to each other, and what people get rewarded for. Human centered AI identifies these breaks. Business rigor fixes them operationally.

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WHY ENTERPRISES WORK WITH ME  

THE REAL PROBLEM

Enterprise transformation fails in the gap between strategy and execution. Consultants deliver decks and disappear. Implementation teams inherit strategy they didn't help design. The organization defaults back to old patterns by week 12. You've spent six figures to end up exactly where you started.

I CLOSE THAT GAP

I'm accountable for transformation actually locking in, not just launching. That looks different depending on what you need: embedded as your AI executive, architecting for your team fractionally, or guiding your board through execution, but the accountability stays the same.

WHAT THIS MEANS FINANCIALLY

Your CFO doesn't care about "improved efficiency." They care about which specific efficiency, translated into impact.
When I work with you, strategy becomes financial language. Not "we optimized processes." Instead: specific measurable metrics.

HOW I'M DIFFERENT

  • Financial Translation, not Metrics
  • Other consultants: "Improved efficiency by 12%"
  • I specify which 12%: Call center volume down 12%, agent productivity up 37%, customer satisfaction up 41%. That's the difference between a KPI and a board-level decision.

BRIDGE THROUGH EXECUTION

Discovery → Design → Implementation → 90-Day Stabilization. I don't hand off to "delivery." I ensure the behavior change is embedded in how your teams actually work. That's where 80% of transformations fail, in that handoff moment.

ORGANIZATIONAL ARCHITECTURE

Technology isn't your bottleneck. How your teams work together is. I redesign incentives, information flow, and decision-making. When those align, that's when transformation sticks.

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FRACTIONAL A.I. STRATEGIC ADVISOR

SEPT 2025 - NOW

BOARD OF INNOVATION

NEW YORK | BRUSSELS

FRACTIONAL A.I. STRATEGY & INNOVATION DIRECTOR

SEPT 2024 - NOW

MULTIPLE COMPANIES

BRAZIL, EGYPT, ITALY

RESEARCH FELLOW, A.I. & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION, ITALY

JAN 2025 - NOW

UNIVERSITÀ FEDERICO II

NAPLES

EXECUTIVE STRATEGY DIRECTOR

MAR 2021 - SEP 2024

SKETCHIN.COM

SWITZERLAND, ITALY, UK

EXECUTIVE STRATEGY & INNOVATION DIRECTOR

MAR 2017 - MAR 2021

SALESFORCE.COM

MEXICO CITY

CO-FOUNDER & C.E.O

2014 - SEP 2016

BUSINESS INNOVATION BY DESIGN

SINGAPORE

INNOVATION DIRECTOR

OCT 2014 - OCT 2015

COGNIZANT.COM

MEXICO CITY

SENIOR INNOVATION STRATEGIST

NOV 2013 - NOV 2014

COGNIZANT.COM

LONDON

FOUNDER & C.E.O

OCT 2012 - NOV 2013

JENUINO

LONDON - FLORENCE

DESIGN STRATEGY DIRECTOR

SEP 2011 - OCT 2012

NURUN.COM - PUBLICIS GROUP

MONTREAL

SERVICES

Permanent Executive

I lead AI-driven transformation as embedded executive. You get a leader who understands design, strategy, and execution, so AI shows up in revenue and margin, not just roadmaps. Long-term ownership, not temporary engagement.

Fractional
Advisory

I design how your team thinks about AI and competes. I bring architecture, you execute it. C-level strategy at fractional cost, no full-time executive needed. My frameworks scale with you.

Strategic
Advisory

While your board worries about AI risk, I identify where it actually shifts market power. Then I build the execution blueprint so you move faster than your competitors without breaking.

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ENDORSEMENTS

I had the pleasure of working with Giacomo for the Ben&Jerry’s brand activation in the italian market. Giacomo is a human-centred strategic thinker with a “do-er”, practic approach and long-term vision. His capacity to understand people first helped refine the project and make it successful. He knows the online dimension and he’s confident in the whole process from brief to reporting. He’s capable in managing client relationships making sure that strategy and creativity are well above client’s expectations.
Tommaso Vitali
General Manager at Wind Tre
Giacomo is an extremely switched on person, with a highly strategic-focused mind. He ‘s always coming up with innovative study cases and owns a 360 view of the creative ad sector. I would like to recommend Giacomo for a similar role.
Nico Sarti
Vice President, Global strategy, Conde Nast
Giacomo has one of the most discussed but at the same time rarest skills a person in the business environment may have nowadays: he is a leader. He has the unique capability to merge an authentic and pure vision with superior entrepreneurial skills. What has surprised the most of the time I spent with him at jenuino was his trust in the possibility of generating new creative ideas to overcome obstacles and deliver results. Giacomo is the kind of guy who knows how to get the things done. and very well. His magic is to do it spreading enthusiasm and empathy to all the stakeholders who have the luck to spend time with him.
Paolo Salza
Innovation Director at Cariplo Factory
Giacomo is really precious. With his extensive experience of international level he can manage all the strategic and production process to get great results and client satisfaction. Excellent relationship skills and ability to work under pressure.
Mirko Pallera
CEO & Founder Ninja Business School (Ninja Marketing)
I truly enjoyed and appreciated working with Giacomo. He's a trustworthy, smart, and reliable professional always with a fresh perspective on things. He is the perfect balance of out-of-the-box creative, problem solving abilities and managing skills always focused on keeping the project moving in the right direction.
Marco Ceccobelli
Head of Process Mining Competence Center, Poste Italiane