Born in Bari on 10 December 1965.
He is a Chartered Accountant and Statutory Auditor and, since 2006, has been Full Professor of Business Administration and Management at the Department of Management and Technology of Università Bocconi in Milan. He also serves as Chairman of Clearwater Italy.
A member of the Board of Directors of Hera S.p.A. since 2023, he currently also serves on both the Remuneration Committee and the Control and Risk Committee.
Since 2022, he has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Bocconi School of Management as Associate Dean for Sustainability and delegate for DEI, where he has also taught "Corporate and Real Estate Finance" since 1994..
He is the Director and founder of the Master's Degree programme in Transformative Sustainability, as well as Academic Director and founder of the Master in Sustainability Management at SDA Bocconi (formerly MASEM, ranked first worldwide from 2025). He is also responsible for courses including Strategic Analysis, ESG and Financial Valuation, Strategic Finance: IPOs, M&A and ESG for growth, Business Administration and Management, Corporate Crisis and Restructuring Processes, Business Ethics & CSR, and Sustainability.
He also serves as delegate appointed by the President of the Italian National Council of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts and is a member of Accountancy Europe – Sustainability Reporting Standards Group (SRS WP).
His current appointments also include: Chairman of the Board of Directors of M-I Stadio (since 2024); Director of Montana (since 2025), Pernigotti (since 2025) and Relevi (since 2026).
His previous appointments include Chairman of the Board of Directors of Energy Trading S.r.l. and the Everel Group; Statutory Auditor of companies operating in the energy and infrastructure sectors, including Idroelettrica Meridionale S.p.A., Italia Navigando S.p.A., Salini Costruttori S.p.A. and Salini S.p.A.; Director of Hera Comm S.p.A. (2023) and Walcor S.p.A. (2022); Extraordinary Commissioner of the Biancamano Group (2021) and Infocontact (2014); Statutory Auditor of Leonardo S.p.A. (2016–2022) and Leonardo International S.p.A. (2018–2024); Judicial Commissioner of Lamezia Multiservizi S.p.A. in composition with creditors proceedings (2018); and Court-appointed Liquidator of the Fondazione Monte Tabor – Ospedale San Raffaele, in liquidation and composition with creditors proceedings.
From 2012 to 2022, at Università Bocconi, he served as the Rector's Delegate and Chair of the Sustainability Committee, having previously been the Rector's Delegate for CSR development within the University. Until 2014, he was Director of CReSV – the Research Centre on Sustainability and Value, previously known as SPACE – the European Centre for the Protection of Corporate and Environmental Resources.
Between 2008 and 2015, he also served on several scientific committees, including that of Top Utility, the independent Italian think tank on utilities, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development's Committee on Energy Efficiency, and the SSPPLL (Local Public Services – Water, Gas, Waste and Local Transport) project.
He also chaired the Advisory Board of the “Crisis, Restructuring and Turnaround” Commission of the Milan Association of Chartered Accountants and Accounting Experts.
He founded E. Capital Partners S.p.A., subsequently acquired by Mittel Corporate Finance S.p.A., and ECPI S.r.l., Italy's first company specialising in ESG advisory services (2000). Between 1995 and 2000, he worked as a consultant for the merchant bank Medinvest S.p.A., later incorporated into Centrobanca – UBI Banca Group. He began his professional career at Sviluppo Finanziaria S.p.A. – Finarte Group, subsequently acquired by ING Bank.
He holds a degree in Business Administration from Università Bocconi and a PhD in Business Studies and Management from Southampton Business School. His executive education includes the International Teachers' Programme (ITP) at New York University's Stern School of Business, courses on Preventing Financial Crime in Business, Stock Exchanges and Other Regulated Markets at Università Bocconi, and the Program in International Management (PIM) at ESADE Business School in Barcelona.
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