“I believe organisations move faster through big change when risk is not the team that says no, but the system that makes decisions clearer, ownership sharper, and progress safer.”
Giovanni Aracu
Sales Director, EMEA, Drova
About Giovanni
Giovanni Aracu is Sales Director, EMEA at Drova. He works with organisations that need to lift governance and resilience without slowing the business down, especially when regulatory expectations and internal change are moving at the same time.
Giovanni helps teams use enterprise risk management as a practical change tool. His focus is on building the risk culture, ownership, and reporting rhythm that makes new frameworks stick, not just pass review. He has supported clients through the real work of implementation, using both top-down and bottom-up approaches to embed risk intent into day-to-day decision making.
He brings five years of sales experience and three years of GRC domain expertise, shaped across sectors including financial services, manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, transport and logistics, and oil and gas.
Giovanni has helped several organisations kickstart risk programmes across the first line and track progress in less than half a year, proving that momentum is possible when risk is designed for real operators.
He writes about risk culture, UK regulatory expectations, operational resilience, and how boards and leadership teams can use risk to create clarity during change.
Giovanni's focus areas
Operational resilience and change readiness
UK governance expectations and board reporting
Consumer Duty
Controls design, assurance, and tracking progress
Objectives, ownership, and accountability in the first line
Building societies, credit unions, and insurance governance patterns
How Giovanni helps
Turns enterprise risk management into a practical enabler for change, not a parallel process.
Helps leaders build risk culture and first-line ownership so frameworks hold up under pressure.
Shapes clear board reporting signals that move conversations from opinions to decisions.
Supports resilience uplift by clarifying what matters most, what breaks first, and who owns the fix.
Helps teams start risk programmes with momentum and track progress quickly across the organisation.
Proof & credibility
Sales Director, EMEA, Drova
5 years sales experience, 3 years GRC expertise
Client work embedding new risk frameworks using top-down and bottom-up approaches
Helped multiple organisations kickstart first-line risk programmes and track progress in under six months
Previously at Convercent and OneTrust
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