Already active in the equity incentive plans segment through partnerships with Uptevia and Optio Incentives, Weltix is structuring a direct go-to-market approach to consolidate its role as the benchmark Italian provider for multinationals, listed mid-caps, and innovative SMEs.
MILAN, May 12, 2026 — Weltix operates in the Italian equity compensation market as a partner to two of the sector’s leading international players: Uptevia, a joint venture between BNP Paribas SA and CACEIS Bank, which serves as the benchmark provider for share registry services and stock plan administration for major French groups such as EssilorLuxottica, Sanofi, and Saint-Gobain; and Optio Incentives, a European platform specializing in stock plan administration. To accelerate the penetration of its solutions within the Italian corporate market, Weltix announces the appointment of Gianni Orlandi as Senior Manager Equity Compensation, who will be responsible for leading and developing the business line dedicated to ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan) and LTI (Long Term Incentive) plans.
A Consolidated Operational Base, Two International Partnerships
Equity compensation represents one of the most significant levers for talent attraction and retention in Italian companies of all sizes. Multinationals with Italian employees, listed mid-caps, and innovative SMEs increasingly rely on stock plans and stock options as central components of their reward and retention strategies. Weltix operates in this segment as the Italian withholding tax agent (sostituto d’imposta) for plans administered by Uptevia on behalf of international groups with employees in Italy, including EssilorLuxottica, Sanofi, and Saint-Gobain. On this consolidated operational foundation, the company is now launching a dedicated business line aimed directly at the corporate market, with the goal of offering an integrated value proposition that combines the technical depth of its trust structure with direct local client insight.
The Role of Senior Manager Equity Compensation
Orlandi will assume direct responsibility for the development of the business line, overseeing new business development, corporate client relations, strategic partnerships, and the coordination of operational delivery. Key areas of focus include: defining the go-to-market strategy, qualifying and closing new commercial agreements, managing existing accounts with responsibility for retention and cross-selling, co-designing the evolution of the offering, and defining the pricing model and competitive positioning.
Profile of Gianni Orlandi
Gianni Orlandi brings over ten years of experience in strategy and go-to-market roles at leading consulting firms and industrial groups. At Deloitte, where he held the position of Senior Strategy Manager, he led over thirty go-to-market initiatives in the banking, insurance, real estate, and investment management sectors, managing substantial budgets and multidisciplinary teams. Throughout his career, he has developed deep expertise with financial and insurance clients, including post-merger integration projects at Banca Patrimoni Sella and program management at Nexi, overseeing 80 projects across 8 divisions. Previously, at PwC and Capgemini Invent, he managed omnichannel and digital projects for major European banking, insurance, and telecom groups.
About Weltix S.p.A.
Weltix is Italy’s first integrated infrastructure for the digital management of private assets, backed by three regulatory authorizations from Consob, the Bank of Italy, and MIMIT (Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy). Its regulated platform offers plug-and-play services for issuance placement, natively digital trust custody, and financial instrument tokenization on DLT registries. It enables banks, intermediaries, and private investors to manage unlisted financial instruments in a compliant, digital, and scalable manner across three business lines:
- Regulated Placement (EU Reg. 2020/1503, Consob Authorization No. 22966)
- Trust Custody & Integrated Taxation (MIMIT Authorization dated 10/03/2020)
- Tokenization of Financial Instruments & DLT Registry Management (Consob Authorization No. 23641)
With its plug-and-play architecture, Weltix empowers banks, financial intermediaries, funds, and issuers to seamlessly adopt advanced technology for efficient private asset lifecycle management.
Partners
- Uptevia is the European leader in share registry services and equity compensation plan administration. Born from the integration of the issuer services business lines of BNP Paribas Securities Services and CACEIS, Uptevia serves over 350 listed issuers and manages stock plans for hundreds of multinationals, including EssilorLuxottica, Sanofi, and Saint-Gobain.
- Optio Incentives AS is a Norwegian stock plan administration platform, headquartered in Oslo and with a consolidated presence in the Italian market, specializing in software and services for the end-to-end management of employee stock plans. Optio serves corporate clients across Europe with an offering that combines technology, multi-jurisdictional compliance, and local tax services, including its collaboration with Weltix Fiduciaria for the Italian market.
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