ION Group reviews

It begins and ends with the leadership team. Andrea Pignataro (Group CEO) - driven, intelligent, inspiring. However, the culture he has cultivated in the organisation is one that does not embody TRUST. The focus on the bottom line and ignorance of the office culture is costing more than properly addressing matters. Delegation of responsibilities is lacking, little or no autonomy trickles down, and the leadership team emulate this behavior. Vivake Gupta (Group CAO) - rude, disingenuous, lacks focus, lacks moral fibre Luke Flemmer (divisional CEO) - arrogant bully, lacks leadership qualities, looks out for himself Silvio Oliviero (divisional CEO) - lacks leadership qualities including not setting an example, uninspiring, inattentive, indecisive Francesco Margini (divisional COO) - disingenuous, destructive flunky that manages up, lacks moral fibre, not popular on the street, ordinary example set to others

You soon realise that ability has nothing to do with progression. It's all to do with who you know, and how much you want to suck up to them. Poor products that could be good if they weren't constantly hiring young people with no experience but lots of enthusiasm. Enthusiasm to put up with poor management, and try to reinvent the wheel when it was working very nice beforehand, thank you. A voice of clarity and reason is seen as dissent - become a yes man and you may do well, but at what cost.