Luca Tomassini
CEO of Vetrya SpA Group, Client of Manini Prefabbricati
Manini Prefabbricati SpA partner of VETRYA SPA
“Because those who want to change the world don’t wait, they do it”
Orvieto. As we enter the headquarters of Vetrya SpA, what strikes us at the entrance is a large monitor showing the countdown of days and hours until the completion of the Corporate Campus.
Indeed. Corporate Campus. Since we were involved in collaborating on the design and construction of such a structure, we have been strongly impressed, both by the ambition of the project and by the novelty of such an innovative and rare business and management philosophy.
Luca Tomassini, Engineer and CEO of Vetrya SpA Group, welcomes us to his high-tech headquarters and explains what the Campus that is being built just minutes away from there is and who it will host.
“The Campus – he tells us – will be the new administrative and operational headquarters of Vetrya where employees will have the opportunity to fully experience their workdays: it will be immersed in a green area and will have sports areas, places dedicated to leisure… all in the name of eco-sustainability, research and innovation.”
Not only that. It will have a work café, a tech shop, and above all, it will be a place to conduct university training with live courses to be followed via videoconference from important Italian and international universities.
“This is because – Tomassini continues – we need to create specific professional skills for our activity, strongly linked to technological innovation. And we need these resources to invest in us in turn, deciding to undertake a long-term career path. For this reason, we give priority to local candidates who embrace our philosophy and our project, and who do not consider their stay just a passing moment”
He speaks passionately about his collaborators, about those young people he can’t “send home” late in the evening from the office because he states “we are a team and without a team you don’t go anywhere.”
We had actually noticed, from the first minutes of the meeting, his way of being an entrepreneur, his way of feeling the company: we felt it immediately, when leafing through the Manini Prefabbricati’s Fiftieth Anniversary Book that we had brought him, with our President’s autographed dedication, he had been unable to hold back a moment of emotion. “Men like this don’t exist anymore, they are a model” he had said, then quickly closing the book to compose himself and continue the interview.
His is a company that was born just four years ago but in this short time has already achieved a great deal both in terms of turnover and in the field of research and innovation. This year, like last year, for the second consecutive time, Vetrya has won the Premio dei Premi, the prestigious award reserved for companies selected from among the winners of innovation awards assigned at the national level.
The Vetrya Group, which also has a subsidiary in Silicon Valley, is an international leader in the provision of multi-screen platforms, media asset management, mobile entertainment, mobile commerce, internet TV, broadband services, and develops services, applications, and platforms for digital media and OTT.
During our interview, which turned into a very pleasant chat, he tells us how creativity is the basis of such a specifically technological field, how everything still arises from the spark of an idea, and that beyond the tools and applications, everything remains inextricably linked to a very human and splendid intuition.
One can imagine then how gratifying it can be that the leader of a group like Vetrya, whose motto is “seeing far” and who makes the future his place of choice, confesses to having had no doubts about choosing Manini Prefabbricati as a partner for the realization of his Corporate Campus dream.
He tells us that when he found himself having to identify a prefabricated supplier, he already had our Company in mind, whose recognizable brand he associated with a solid image of credibility and reliability.
This idea did not fade when he personally witnessed the assembly of the structure “…I was impressed – he tells us – by the ‘watchmaker-like’ precision with which the various prefabricated elements were interlocked.”
Even his visit to our production facilities had not left him indifferent “especially for the high technology and for the quantity and variety of processes that contribute to the realization of the panels…”
His decision was therefore supported by a series of quality guarantees that led to an absolutely serene and satisfactory collaboration process for both parties.
We shook hands at the door.
A street sign “Innovation Road”, behind us, points directly into his office: there is no doubt that the future, before arriving, passes right through there. When we turned around, however, and the large monitor at the entrance indicated that another hour had passed for the realization of our common project, we then had the certainty that we are also part of that future today.
