Elio Cosimo Catania

Obtains a degree in Engineering at the University of La Sapienza in Rome, and then a Master Degree in Management Science at the ‘Sloan Fellow School’ of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Presides as chairman at Quid S.p.a. and is member of the Assonime Committee for US-Italian Relations and of the Management Board of the ASPHI Onlus Foundation.

An important part of his professional career was spent at IBM, where he covered key positions as Chairman and CEO of IBM in Latin America, South Europe and Italy and sat as a Member of the Global Management Council. He has occupied further positions as Chairman and CEO of the Italian State Railways, Milan Transport Company (ATM) and Deputy Vice- Chairman of Alitalia; furthermore, he was Chairman of Confindustria Digitale and Vice-Chairman of CNEL. He was a member of the Board of Directors at Luiss, BNL, Intesa San Paolo and Telecom Italia.

He is also advisor to the Minister of Agriculture.

In 2001 he was awarded the title of ‘Cavaliere del Lavoro’ (Order of Merit for Labour) by the President of the Italian Republic.