Elena De Stefano

CFO & Strategy Manager

“Three keywords: perseverance, resilience, broad vision”

Joining D&D in 2006, Elena is the female presence on the board.

Contrary to everyone’s expectations, she is neither an architect nor an engineer, but has always been passionate about management and economics.

After completing her studies, she had a single goal: to join a major company, prove herself, and grow. Following an initial experience in a Milan-based architecture firm, she joined Librerie Feltrinelli in 2004, becoming part of the supplier accounting team. Here, she gained exposure to a structured organization, absorbing its managerial approach and organizational practices. However, after a few years, she reluctantly realized that “big” is not always synonymous with “meritocratic,” leading her to leave that path behind and explore new opportunities.

Convinced that she could bring added value even to smaller organizations, in 2006 she decided to take the leap and join the family business: D&D Engineering.

Initially handling accounting and administration, she patiently immersed herself in the inner workings and processes of the industry, falling deeply in love with it. The broad, cross-disciplinary learning environment of a company like D&D is what drives her to push herself further and further.

In 2013, after years of hard work and after successfully steering D&D through the 2008 market crisis, she sought a new, almost inevitable turning point and took the helm. Her destination? To guide D&D Engineering and its entire team toward new and broader horizons, fostering a generational evolution that harmonizes past, present, and future with clear productivity goals.

Today, Elena serves as CFO, strategy manager, and a key point of reference for the team.
In recent years, she has led D&D to a fivefold increase in revenue compared to its kickoff.