Chief Executive Officer
and Manager of Renewable Energies ad interim
He was born in Modica (Ragusa) in 1967.
Since May 2022 he has been Chief Executive Officer of the Hera Group.
From January 2022 to May 2022 he was Chief Operating Officer for Sustainable Infrastructures of Saipem, where he entered in October 2021 in the role of Chief Operating Officer Italy.
From February 2021 to September 2021, he was Senior Advisor at Oaktree Capital Management/PwC Italy, with the task of providing strategic and specialized advice on infrastructure and technologies with a view to environmental, social and economic financial sustainability and a strong orientation towards the ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) principles for corporate social growth.
From September 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Trenitalia, a position he held until December 2020. Over the years, Trenitalia has become a European group with a turnover of about 6.5 billion euros, operating in five countries (Germany, France, Spain, UK and Greece) and is responsible for carrying out an internationalization process with the award of tenders in the UK (West Coast Franchise) and Spain for the Spanish High Speed service.
From November 2014 to September 2017 he worked in Trenitalia as Director of the Regional Passenger Division, a central structure to which all the individual regional departments report; here, he carried out an intensive restructuring process of the industrial structure and led the company (thanks also to a significant investment program for the new regional fleet) to become a reference model.
He began his experience in the Ferrovie dello Stato (FS) Group on 1 December 1993 and took on positions of increasing responsibility within the Italian Railway Network Company (RFI - network manager) before becoming, in 2012, Commercial Director and Network Operator. He also followed the technological development projects (among other things) in the Bologna station for activation of the high-speed rail service.
He graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Catania with a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the M.I.P. – Milan Polytechnic School of Management
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