Stefano Bridelli

Stefano Bridelli is the Chairman of Bain & Company for South America. He brings over four decades of experience in management consulting and was one of the key figures behind establishing and strengthening Bain’s presence in the region.

He is the founder of Bain’s offices in South America — São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, and Bogotá — and has served on the firm’s Global Board of Directors, in addition to chairing the firm’s Global Nominating Committee.

Throughout his career, Stefano has worked closely with top leadership at major national and multinational groups across a wide range of industries, including agribusiness, consumer goods, financial services, retail, oil and gas, steel, textiles, pulp and paper, telecommunications, and private equity. He has led projects in corporate and business unit strategy, organizational redesign, performance improvement, and mergers and acquisitions.

Stefano joined us in London in 1983. In 1990, he joined the Bain startup office in Milan and, in 1994, co-started Bain’s office in Rome. In 1998, he moved to Brazil to set up our firm's office in São Paulo, soon further expanding our regional footprint through our offices in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago, and Bogota.

Before joining Bain, he worked at AIESEC (International Association of Students) in Brussels as Secretary-General; at the European Parliament in Luxembourg as a financial analyst; and at Olivetti in Italy as a corporate analyst.

Stefano holds an MBA with distinction in Marketing and Accounting from Columbia Business School in New York, and graduated summa cum laude in Economics from the Università di Parma in Italy.

He is currently Vice President of OSESP (São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra) and an active member of the São Paulo chapters of the World Presidents’ Organization (WPO) and Amcham.