Franco Bernabè (born September 18, 1948) is an Italian banker and manager, currentl the Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, appointed on December 3, 2007. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Telecom Italia () is the largest Italian Telephone company. Now a private company it was founded in 1994 by the merger of several state-owned telecommunications Events 1800 - War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden, French Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
Bernabé was born at Vipiteno. Sterzing ( Italian: Vipiteno, archaic Sterzen; Archaic (1180 AD Sterzengum; Archaic (827 AD Uuipitina;, Latin He graduated in 1973 from the University of Turin and worked as a post-graduate fellow in economics at the Einaudi Foundation from 1973 to 1975. The University of Turin ( Italian Università degli Studi di Torino, UNITO is a University in the city of Turin in the Piedmont region He is the author of several publications in economics, and has received an honorary Doctor’s degree in Environmental Sciences from the University of Parma . The University of Parma ( Italian: Università degli Studi di Parma, UNIPR is one of the oldest universities in the world founded in the 11th century
He joined Eni in 1983 as an Assistant to the Chairman and became subsequently the Head of Corporate Planning, Financial Control and Corporate Development. Eni SpA () is an Italian multinational oil and gas company with a presence in 70 countries currently Italy's largest industrial company with Prior to his joining Eni, he worked in the planning department of Fiat as a Chief Economist. Fiat SpA (an Acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino (Italian Automobile Factory of Turin) is an Italian automobile manufacturer He started his career as a Senior Economist at the OECD Department of Economics and Statistics in Paris.
Bernabè has served pro bono on different public assignments: in 1999 he was appointed by the Italian Prime Minister as a special representative of the Italian government for the reconstruction of Kosovo; between 2001 and 2003 he was the Chairman of La Biennale di Venezia, and since 2004 he is the Chairman of Mart, the foremost Italian museum of modern art. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Council on Foreign Relations and currently serves on the Board of the Peres Center for Peace, on the Advisory Board of the Observatoire Méditerranéen de l'Énergie, and on the Board of Petrochina. In the past Mr. Bernabè has also served on the Board of several Italian and international listed companies.
Bernabè has also been Chairman and majority shareholder of FB Group, an investment company that he founded in 1999, which was active in the areas of ICT and renewable energy. He has been particularly active in the telecom sector - as a founder of Andala H3G, and as one of the controlling shareholders of Netscalibur and of Telit, contributing to the turnaround of the two companies – and in the software sector through the companies of the Kelyan Group, focusing on ICT solutions for the extended enterprise as well as on value-added services for the telecommunication industry. He is also a Vice Chairman of Rothschild Europe.
External links
- Harvard Business Review (In English)
- Harvard Business Review Library (English)
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