Member of the Board of Directors of Enel since May 2023.
After graduating with honors in Chemical Engineering at the University of Trieste (1978), he began his career in the Total Group (1980-1986), where he held the position of mechanical maintenance manager at the Trieste refinery and supervised the related management control.
He then moved to the Generali Group (1987-1989), where he was involved in the insurance of technological risks of multinational and oil companies; he was subsequently a management consultant first at the Telos Group (1989-1994), where he was responsible for various projects, with particular focus on organizational and ICT profiles, and then at Coopers & Lybrand (1994-1995), where he was responsible for reorganization of the production and logistics area.
In 1997 he joined the ABB Group, where he worked in an initial phase until 2006 with roles of increasing responsibility. In this period, he was global manager of the “Maintenance, Engineering & Consulting” and “System Service” business units (1999-2000), manager for Italy of the “Distribution Transformers” business unit (2000-2003), sales manager (2002-2004) and then general manager of the “Power Technologies" Italian Division (2004-2006).
He was then CEO of Fantuzzi Reggiane Group (2006-2007), a world leader in the production of container handling cranes, and general manager of Triveneta Cavi (2008-2009), a leading European company in the production of medium- and low-voltage cables.
In 2010 he returned to the ABB Group, where he held the role of global manager of the “Distribution Transformers” business line (2010-2014) and then managing director of ABB Italy (2015-March 2020), a company where he was also chairman of the board of directors (March-December 2020). In this period, he also held some important association positions, including member of the board of directors of the Swiss Chamber in Italy and of the advisory board for Foreign Investors of Confindustria.
Date of last update: 12 June 2023