Savills expands its retail advisory offering with Stefano De Robertis, senior retail marketing advisor

Savills is embarking on a new professional journey with Stefano De Robertis, who from 1° January 2027 will support the company as senior retail marketing advisor.

The contribution

As part of his appointment, De Robertis will make his experience in retail marketing and asset management available to Savills, contributing to the development of strategies and projects capable of integrating customer experience, asset positioning, innovation and commercial enhancement.

His contribution will strengthen a consultancy offering increasingly focused on supporting clients and investors in interpreting market changes, anticipating new consumer behaviours and capitalising on opportunities linked to the transformation of the sector, also through engagement with Savills' international network and the sharing of experience, methodologies and best practices developed in the world's leading markets.

Extensive experience

With more than thirty years of experience in retail real estate, Stefano De Robertis will collaborate with Savills following a professional career of more than twenty years at Eurocommercial, where he held roles of increasing responsibility in the marketing and enhancement of retail destinations. Throughout his career, he has contributed to the development, positioning and evolution of numerous shopping centres in Italy and abroad, gaining extensive experience in customer experience, loyalty, digital innovation and marketing strategies for retail real estate.

The comments

“The start of the collaboration with Stefano De Robertis represents a further step in the growth of our retail activities in Italy,” comments Riccardo Crepaldi, head of retail management at Savills. "The evolution of retail real estate now requires an ever greater ability to integrate property management, marketing and customer experience. Thanks to Stefano's in-depth knowledge of the sector, gained through hands-on experience, we will be able to support landlords, investors and retailers with an even more comprehensive vision when conceiving and developing commercial destinations capable of creating long-term value”.

Davide Dalmiglio, CEO of Savills, comments: “This collaboration reflects Savills' desire to continue investing in highly specialised expertise and to make the combined value of local experience and our international platform available to clients. In a constantly changing market, we believe that the ability to integrate consumer knowledge, innovation and property expertise is an increasingly decisive factor in anticipating change and capitalising on new growth opportunities”.

Stefano De Robertis, senior retail marketing advisor at Savills, adds: “The retail real estate market is undergoing a period of profound transformation, in which adaptation is often discussed. But adapting means reacting to what happens; evolving, on the other hand, means being able to anticipate change. This is precisely the most interesting challenge facing our sector: interpreting new scenarios and turning them into opportunities. In this process, marketing has an increasingly strategic role: creating meaningful and distinctive experiences to generate value through authentic connections between people, retailers and communities. Collaborating with Savills represents a great professional opportunity for me. I am delighted to contribute to the development of retail management activities and to work alongside a highly qualified team, with the aim of supporting clients through increasingly innovative and integrated solutions capable of generating tangible, lasting value over time”.

This article was translated from the original Italian version with the assistance of artificial intelligence. In case of discrepancies, please refer to the original Italian version.