Independent advisory and management practice
Leadership and corporate development, digital and software communications, and telecom infrastructure — advised by people who have run them.
Kathelijne Winderickx - Matteo Gatta
Track record
Businesses carried end to end, through the quarters that did not go to plan.
Commercial organisations built, restructured and led — not advised from outside them.
Deals structured and negotiated, then integrated: the part that decides whether they worked.
Cost bases reset without hollowing out what made the business worth keeping.
Positions argued where the outcome shaped the market, not only the licence.
Fiber, towers and spectrum, and the software layers that now set what a network is worth.
The practice
Both have held the accountability they now advise on. Neither is a career adviser who has only read about the decision.
CEO, CxO, Commercial leadership, corporate development and infrastructure
Matteo Gatta has spent more than twenty years inside communications businesses, latterly running them. He was Chief Executive of BICS from 2021 to 2024, leading the turnaround of a global carrier whose direct margin, EBITDA and operating cash flow had been falling for several years, and Chief Executive of Scarlet before that.
Governance, Corporate affairs, Transaction Layer, Family Business Management
Kathelijne Winderickx has spent her career on the governance side of the same industry. She was Legal Director for Belgacom’s consumer business, then the executive responsible for human resources, legal, regulatory affairs and internal communication across the BICS group — including TeleSign, the US digital identity business, from its acquisition in 2017.
Advisory focus
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Taken on where a board needs the decision made, not the options paper written.
P&L ownership · go-to-market leadership · M&A and joint ventures · post-merger integration · restructuring · regulatory strategy
02
For businesses whose product is now software, and whose org chart has not caught up.
AI-powered CX · SaaS and API platforms · CPaaS and omnichannel · fraud prevention · IoT and eSIM · mobility and roaming enablement
03
Where the capital decision and the technology decision are the same decision.
FTTH and fiber · wireless towers and spectrum · mobile network sharing · private networks · cloud-enabled edge and data centre
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Balancing daily enterprise governance with the multi-generational transfer of leadership, ownership, and family values to secure lasting continuity.
Governing daily business operations while strategically aligning multi-generational family dynamics, ownership structures, and leadership succession to ensure long-term enterprise continuity.
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The strategic buy, sell, merger, or reorganization of a company's assets, capital structure, and operations to maximize value, accelerate growth, or turn around distress.
Corporate Transactions and Restructuring refers to the strategic buy, sell, merger, or reorganization of a company's capital, assets, and operational framework to optimize financial performance, adapt to market shifts, or resolve financial distress.
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Overseeing enterprise legal strategy, mitigating risk, and administering board governance to ensure regulatory compliance, protects value, and aligns shareholder interests.
Legal Management, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary encompasses the executive oversight of corporate legal risk, standard-setting in governance, and statutory board operations to align corporate strategy, regulatory compliance, and shareholder interests.
Writing
Judgement is difficult to demonstrate in a credentials list. It is easier to show by writing about the decisions that are genuinely hard, and letting the reader decide whether the thinking holds.
Matteo Gatta August 2026
How this new layer is changing the experience and operating fabric of knowledge work
Matteo Gatta June 2026
What three AI tools, two years of daily use, and several expensive mistakes actually taught me.
Contact
Board and non-executive mandates, advisory engagements, and executive conversations. A short note about the situation is enough to begin.
