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Our business is closely involved in people lives.

We ensure residents receive essential services for their daily life.

At your side in your community

Managing your water services. Distributing energy. Selling electricity and gas. Recycling waste. Our one objective: to create value for the people and the community in which we operate.

Nowadays, innovation is at everyone's fingertips.

Acea sees innovation as the driving force to become more efficient, to raise the quality of life for our customers, to improve services for the residents and the community. Acea has used all this to create a new culture of innovation: an open culture, which everyone can share and take part in.

Our Group serves local communities and their citizens.

We are fully aware of our role of responsibility towards our stakeholders for our major economic, social and environmental impact. This is why our Sustainability Plan is part and parcel of our Business Plan.

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Patrizia Rutigliano

Patrizia Rutigliano has been a member of the Acea Board of Directors since 18 April 2023.

She gained significant managerial experience working with public and private companies in strategic sectors such as energy, telecommunications, service concessions, as well as the Public Administration. She has an in-depth knowledge of ESG issues and has developed engagement models and environmental and social policies that are often innovative for the reference businesses.

At Snam from 2009 to October 2022, in positions of increasing responsibility, she held the role of Executive Vice President Institutional Affairs, ESG, Communication & Marketing and was the first woman to become a member of the leadership team. She managed major profiles in the processes concerning functional and proprietary separation from Eni, integration of the gas markets, supply diversification and security, development of energy transition activities, gas and hydrogen market and taxonomy reform. She was responsible for the ESG policies on which the business plan was based, defining the environmental objectives (Scopes 1, 2 and 3) and the carbon offsetting mechanisms.

From 2004 to 2009 she was Head of External Relations for Autogrill, during the principal motorway and airport concessions renewal phase.

From 2001 to 2004, she was initially e.Biscom press office manager and was then also appointed as Head of Fastweb External Relations.

From 1997 to 2001 she was Spokesperson for the Municipality of Milan, during the privatisation phase of the main municipalised companies.

She began her career in 1992 as a professional journalist, dealing with politics and economics for Mondo Economico, Fininvest and Euronews.

She served on the Boards of for-profit and non-profit corporations, including Tiscali and Fiera Milano, Teréga Holding, a regulated French gas utility, Toscana Energia, the SNAM Foundation, World Wellbeing Movement, the MIP-Politecnico di Milano School of Management and the publishing company Il Cittadino.

She was Deputy Chairperson of Anigas (National Association of Gas Industrialists) and member of the Assolombarda governing council and the Valore D Board of Directors. She was also Chairperson of the Italian Federation for Public Relations (FERPI) from 2011 to 2016.

She holds a degree in Languages and contemporary history from the Catholic University of Milan, with a specialisation diploma in Social Sciences and Journalism.