My name is Claudio Scotto, living in Milano, proud father and husband, I have a great family but not too large. I have been working for 30 years in the Graphic Industry, of which 15 years spent at Muller Martini as Product Manager.
What is your function at Mekes?
Officially I am the Sales and purchase Director for the Italian market, but when needed I am free to move all around the world. I am daily involved in the purchase and sale of Bindery equipment and Offset printing presses, taking care of dismantling, coordination, loading and shipment, following the installation, so always at the frontline to be sure to grant the best quality in any single step.
When and why have you started working at Mekes?
After the Muller Martini experience, I continued to receive numerous calls from clients who needed machinery, but above all advice on how to improve their production processes, and this gratitude was one of the greatest job satisfaction of my career.
So I realize that I had to find a reliable company where to go on in my business. I met Leon Lagrand, now my colleague, and he invited me in The Netherlands to discover the Mekes organization and structure. There I met Ronald Mekes, he was looking for someone to increase the Mekes presence in Italy.
What I can really remind well is Ronald’s sentence : “Claudio, we don’t only need a salesman, we need someone to keep our name at the highest level, a man who never forgets that we always keep our promises”, and this sentence was one of the reason’s that convinced me that Mekes was my company.
After a long dinner we decided to open an office in Milano, now Mekes Italia since 2016.
What makes your work at Mekes so much fun?
As my colleague Leon already said, we are a great Team, and all together we can move mountains to deliver what we have promised to our customers.
It is great to switch from the purchase to the sale negotiation every day with different machines.
What I find really funny; friendly speaking, my strongest competitors are my colleagues who are all unbelievably experienced people with a strong reputation, who are often able to sell our machinery in their market before I can.
What is the biggest success you have had at Mekes?
There have been a lot of successes, I cannot say which one was the greatest and it won’t be fair. But we have bought entire production lines from companies and our name is today well known in Italy. Besides we are well known in the biggest worldwide group with whom we daily work together, as also for the smallest companies.