Elio Catania, graduated in Electrotechnical Engineering at the ‘La Sapienza’ University in Rome, had gained his Master’s Degree of Management Science at the ‘Sloan Fellow School’ of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. He has spent most of his management career in IBM where he reached Top Management positions as President of IBM Latin America, Southern Europe and Italy and Member of the Worldwide Management Council. He has been Chairman and CEO of Ferrovie dello Stato, Chairman and Managing Director of the ATM Group Milan Transport Company and Deputy Chairman of Alitalia C.A.I. S.p.A.. He served as Board Member of BNL, of Telecom Italia, and Intesa Sanpaolo.
From April 1 2014 he is Chairman of Confindustria Digitale , and board member in several listed companies.
He is Member of the board of Confindustria, of Assonime, Member of the Executive Committee of the Council for the United States and Italy, and Member of the Board of Directors of Fondazione Asphi Onlus.
He is currently the Chairman of Quid Informatica
He has been appointed as Cavaliere del Lavoro of the Republic of Italy.
Current role