Alessandro Picardi has been a member of the Acea Board of Directors since 18 April 2023.
He is currently Chairman of Nexting.
He was recently Chairman of FinLombarda Gestioni SGR S.p.A and has a long experience in telecommunications and broadcasting.
For four years he worked with the Tim S.p.A. group. From 2019, he was Executive Vice President & Chief Public Affairs Officer of TIM and director of the subsidiary Sparkle and, more recently, up to the end of December 2022, was executive Chairman with operational powers of Olivetti S.p.A..
From 2013 to 2019 he was employed by Rai, firstly as Manager of Institutional, International and Regulatory Relations and then as Director of Strategic Platform Development. At the same time, from 2014 to 2019 he was Executive Chairman of Tivù Srl - Tivusat, a company operating in free-to-air satellite television owned by Rai, Mediaset and Telecom Italia.
During the period 2012-2013 he was Deputy Chairman Corporate Affairs of Alitalia, and from 2006 to 2012 was Head of Institutional Affairs at Wind. From 2004 to 2006 he was employed by Sky Italy (satellite television) as advisor for Institutional Affairs and Relations with the Vatican.
He has served on the Boards of Directors of several companies and foundations, in particular Fondazione TIM (2019-2022) and Tivu’ srl - Tivusat (2019-2022). During the same period, he was a director of ISPI, the Italian Institute for International Political Studies, and the COTEC Foundation for technological innovation. From 2015 to 2018 he was a director of Auditel. Since 2018 he has been a director of the Centre for American Studies.
He is presently Deputy Chairman of Confindustria Assolombarda, having previously served as Deputy Chairman of Confindustria Digitale, Deputy Chairman of Asstel (Confindustria association of telecommunications operators) from 2020 to 2022, member of the Presidency Council and General Council of Confindustria Radio Televisioni, member of the Eurovisioni Governing Council.
He holds a degree in Media Studies.
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