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Outline Announces New Management Team

Giorgia Biffi steps down from the role of CEO and head of sales, with Fernando Rey Méndez named the new director of sales and Daniele Tebaldi now serving as general manager.
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New Outline general manager Daniele Tebaldi (left) and director of sales Fernando Rey Méndez.

Outline, which is currently celebrating its 50th anniversary, has announced a new management team, with Giorgio Biffi retiring from his role of CEO and head of sales that he held since the passing of founder Guido Noselli.

“Giorgio has undoubtedly driven Outline’s success on a worldwide scale during his 47 year-long tenure – which is why it wasn’t exactly easy to find a suitable candidate to replace him,” says Michele Noselli, majority shareholding partner together with his brother Stefano, who adds, “It explains how we came to appoint not one, but two younger guys, as a team, in order to keep up with Giorgio’s own pace, willing to grow Outline to lead tomorrow’s technological challenge.”

Fernando Rey Méndez has been named as the company’s new director of sales. He joined Outline as sales engineer at the end of 2016 and later added to his tasks that of Outline Newton’s business development manager and sales manager for the Test & Measurement Instruments division. Méndez forged his professional sound engineering skills with Italian musical theatre company Compagnia della Rancia and then served as startup and commissioning engineer in the integration market for naval specialists Wärtsilä, Seastema and Videlio-HMS.

Industry-veteran Daniele Tebaldi will now lead Outline as general manager following collaboration that started at the beginning of 2022. Tebaldi served as front of house engineer for Paolo Conte and then worked as a technical journalist and copywriter prior to lecturing in audio engineering classes. He also enjoyed a 25-year stint at d&b audiotechnik’s Italian subsidiary.

“There’s a great opportunity beyond, and a hard lesson to be learned from, the changes that the world went through, in the aftermath of the 2020 COVID pandemic,” continues Stefano Noselli. “My senior brother Michele and myself reacted with a strong determination to pursue change in our business, which has to date pretty much remained the same family-owned, family-driven small company that our late father Guido started in 1973.”

Michele Noselli concludes, “Celebrating Outline’s 50th anniversary this year seems like the perfect occasion to up the ante, by renewing our commitment to a brighter, stronger Outline for the years to come – turning change into a most powerful advocate. This isn’t a farewell to Giorgio, as he remains a shareholding partner within Outline’s board, though nonetheless this feels like the right picture, in which to frame our ‘thank you, Giorgio!’ for his relentless drive of Outline’s business.”

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