Since 2019, Gildino has been the CFO and Investment Director at the EBENIS Family Office. Gildino oversees the activity of the 26 branches in 5 economic activities: The industrial group, John Cockerill, a professional sports group with FC Metz, a hotel group with M Gallery Accor La Citadelle in Metz and several restaurants; an agri-food group with Domaine de La Dourbie viticulture and a real estate group active in property development and promotion. Within the scope of his functions, Gildino is also a Director of some of the 26 subsidiaries of the EBENIS group. He is also a member of the Select Management Committee of the John Cockerill Group and Animator Secretary of the Board of Directors of the EBENIS Family Office.

Gildino began his professional career in 2002 at RAMBOLL, as a Business Manager.

In 2010, Gildino created his own company EUROSHERPA where he specialized in obtaining European subsidies, debt and equity for public and private infrastructure and equipment projects, mainly in the energy, transport, RDI sectors. Parallel to Eurosherpa’s activities, he carried out missions to manage large-scale projects in a more “intuitu personae” way.

In 2011, the Belgian Federal State decided to submit a proposal for the 2017 International Expo; Gildino was invited to be the COO of the Belgium bid.

In 2018, JOHN COCKERILL Industrial Group asked him to design and create a €42 million “Venture” investment fund, to support and finance the development of start-ups and scale-ups.