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Alberto Regis

Founder at Iperleads

Biella, Italy

Alberto Regis — ABM Advisor & Founder of IperLeads

Alberto Regis is one of Italy's leading voices in Account-Based Marketing, bringing over 30 years of international marketing experience to a discipline that most Italian companies are only beginning to discover. As founder of IperLeads, he has built a boutique ABM advisory practice with a deliberately unconventional model: a maximum of six clients per year, each served with the depth and strategic intimacy that authentic ABM demands.

His philosophy is rooted in what he calls "marketing lento" — slow marketing. In an industry obsessed with automation, volume, and vanity metrics, Alberto takes the opposite position: fewer accounts, deeper relationships, and a relentless focus on creating genuine value for the people on the other side of every conversation. This is not a limitation. It is a competitive advantage.

Alberto's marketing career began long before ABM had a name. After graduating with a background in business and international markets, he held senior marketing leadership roles at some of the world's most recognized consumer brands — Danone, Quaker Oats, Scholl, and Havaianas — operating across Europe, Brazil, Pakistan, and Asia. These decades of cross-cultural experience gave him something rare: the ability to read markets, stakeholders, and human motivations across radically different contexts.

His transition from global FMCG to complex B2B marketing was not accidental. Working in infrastructure sales across Pakistan and the Middle East, Alberto encountered for the first time the reality of multi-stakeholder buying committees, long decision cycles, and the critical importance of deep account intelligence over mass outreach. He recognized, intuitively, what ITSMA would later formalize as Strategic ABM: the most effective marketing happens when you treat each account as a market of one.

This insight became the foundation of IperLeads. Today, Alberto works with Italian mid-market manufacturing companies — particularly in the mechanical and mechatronic sectors — helping them identify, engage, and win the five to twenty strategic accounts that can genuinely transform their business trajectory. His approach combines rigorous account research, precise stakeholder mapping, trigger-based campaign development, and the kind of personalized content that earns attention rather than demanding it.

Beyond advisory work, Alberto is also a professor of marketing industriale at Fondazione ITS Meccatronica e Avionica in Turin, where he teaches the next generation of industrial professionals how to think strategically about markets, relationships, and value creation. His classroom, like his client work, reflects the same conviction: that marketing is not about interrupting people, but about helping decision-makers build better futures for their organizations.

Alberto is also an entrepreneur at heart. He founded Regina Regis, a fashion retail venture, and Arte della Vita, a project dedicated to bringing Italian design to the Pakistani market — experiences that deepened his understanding of brand positioning, cross-cultural communication, and the courage required to build something from nothing.

His intellectual influences are as eclectic as his career. He draws on Edward de Bono's lateral thinking, Carlo Rovelli's philosophy of complexity, and Buddhist concepts of attention and presence — all of which inform his conviction that the best marketing is, at its core, an act of empathy and honest service.

In a market where most agencies promise scalability and deliver automation, Alberto Regis offers something increasingly rare: strategic intimacy. The kind that comes only from truly understanding an account before attempting to engage it. The kind that respects the intelligence of the people on the other side. The kind that builds relationships durable enough to become the foundation of long-term business growth.

For companies ready to compete on depth rather than volume, Alberto is the advisor who knows the difference — and why it matters.

Alberto Regis Points
Academic 5
Author 5
Influencer 88
Speaker 0
Entrepreneur 0
Total 98

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Company Information

Company Type: Individual
Business Unit: marketing
Minimum Project Size: $25,000+
Average Hourly Rate: $200-$300
Number of Employees: 1-10
Company Founded Date: Undisclosed

Areas of Expertise

Business Strategy 30.16
Manufacturing 30.26
Marketing 30.13

Industry Experience

Aerospace & Defense
Building Materials, Clay & Glass
Chemicals
Cross Industry
Engineering & Construction
Industrial Machinery & Components
Metal Products
Professional Services

Publications & Experience

2 Article/Blogs
Impianti semi-vuoti, margini massacrati e ancora rincorrete gare che vi schiacciano sul prezzo: è questo il futuro che volete?
Linkedin
January 07, 2026
Il futuro della manifattura italiana non si giocherà sulla capacità di produrre di più, ma sulla capacità di scegliere meglio per chi produrre e come presidiare quei pochi clienti che faranno davvero la differenza

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Tags: Marketing

Account-Based Marketing o Inbound Marketing: Una Falsa Dicotomia
Linkedin
December 20, 2025
Per comprendere davvero la relazione tra Account-Based Marketing e Inbound Marketing, dobbiamo partire da una premessa scomoda: troppo spesso nel dibattito B2B italiano trattiamo questi approcci come se fossero opposti, come se l'adozione dell'uno escludesse automaticamente l'altro.

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Tags: Marketing

3 Author Newsletters
Le 30.170 imprese che crescono il doppio delle altre. E non è (solo) questione di tecnologia...
Linkedin
February 09, 2026
Un nuovo studio della Luiss Business School svela cosa distingue davvero le aziende italiane ad alta crescita. Per chi fa meccanica e meccatronica, i dati raccontano una storia che conosciamo bene — ma che forse non abbiamo mai letto in questi termini.

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Tags: Marketing

Se non esisti oggi, non esisterai domani: Come costruire credibilità nei 12 mesi prima di una gara
Linkedin
January 27, 2026
Quando un'azienda manifatturiera mi contatta per una "gara importante, cliente strategico, possiamo vincerla?", la mia prima domanda è sempre: "Quando avete parlato l'ultima volta con chi deciderà?" Il silenzio che segue mi dice tutto.

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Tags: Marketing

175 Zettabyte di Rumore: Perché 98 Persone su 100 Ignorano il Tuo Marketing
Linkedin
December 02, 2025
Quando il Marketing Dimentica le Persone
Esiste un paradosso nel marketing contemporaneo che meriterebbe più attenzione.

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Tags: Marketing

1 Journal Publication
Account-Based Marketing in MetalWorking - why is that so much needed?
zenodo
March 14, 2026
WHY THE METALWORKING INDUSTRY NEEDS ACCOUNT-BASED MARKETING

ALBERTO REGIS

Italy's metalworking and mechanical engineering industry is the second largest in Europe, generating over EUR 60 billion in annual trade surplus and representing more than 27% of national manufacturing value added. Medium and large enterprises export at rates above 90%. By any industrial measure, this is a sector of exceptional productive excellence.

Yet a paradox persists: the same companies that machine components to hundredths-of-a-millimetre tolerances and manage globalised supply chains with precision continue to rely on marketing approaches designed for mass consumer markets. Trade fairs. Generic catalogues. Unanswered email campaigns. Sales cycles left to lengthen without structured commercial intelligence. The marketing function, where it exists at all, operates in a silo disconnected from the sales force.

The cost of this paradox is measurable. Opportunities with strategic accounts are lost not on price but on relationships. Key accounts are penetrated slowly because no structured effort is made to build consensus across the full buying committee. Internationalisation stalls because there is no disciplined methodology for identifying and approaching the right targets in new markets.

The core argument of this paper is that these failures are structural, not accidental — and that Account-Based Marketing (ABM) is their structural solution.

The metalworking B2B market has three characteristics that render traditional volume-based marketing fundamentally inadequate. First, the addressable market is narrow: a company supplying precision aerospace components may have fewer than 200 viable global clients. Broad-coverage campaigns aimed at generating high lead volumes are not only wasteful in this context — they are counterproductive, consuming resources that should be concentrated on the accounts that actually matter. Second, sales cycles are long: 12 to 24 months is typical, with complex commissions extending to 36. Traditional marketing funnels, optimised for rapid conversion, cannot sustain qualified engagement across multi-year decision journeys. Third, purchasing decisions involve committees, not individuals: Gartner documents an average of 6 to 10 stakeholders per significant industrial purchase, each with different priorities, technical languages and communication preferences. A single undifferentiated message cannot reach all of them effectively.

ABM was designed precisely for this context. Born in 2003 from ITSMA research on complex B2B sales, ABM inverts the traditional marketing funnel: rather than casting wide and filtering down, it begins by selecting the accounts worth winning — and then concentrates all marketing and sales energy on building personalised, multi-stakeholder relationships with each. The account, not the individual lead, becomes the unit of strategy.

ABM operates at three tiers. At the 1:1 Strategic level, 1 to 5 accounts receive fully bespoke campaigns — custom content, dedicated events, direct executive engagement — representing an investment of EUR 5,000 to 50,000 per account per year. At the 1:Few Scalable level, clusters of 5 to 50 accounts sharing similar characteristics receive cluster-personalised programmes at EUR 1,000 to 5,000 per account. At the 1:Many Programmatic level, technology-driven personalisation reaches 50 to 500+ accounts at a fraction of the cost. For most Italian metalworking companies, the optimal architecture combines a tight 1:1 programme for their 5 to 10 most strategic accounts with a 1:few approach for priority vertical segments.

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Tags: Business Strategy, Manufacturing, Marketing

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