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Marco Patuano
Cellnex Telecom, CEO
Speaker Bio
Currently CEO of Cellnex Telecom, a Spanish listed company acting on a pan-european base in the digital infrastructure space.
Born in Alessandria, Italy, on 6th June 1964, he graduated in Business Economics from Bocconi University in Milan, and furthered his studies in Europe and in the United States. His professional career got under way in the telecommunications sector, where he soon achieved significant results, including an active role, in 1995, in the creation of the TIM start-up and its subsequent establishment in Latin American markets.
After several years working abroad, where his achievements included the confirmation of TIM Brasil as the country’s second biggest operator, returned to Italy in 2008 to take up senior posts in the Telecom Italia Group, serving as Chief Executive from 2011 to 2016.
In October 2016, was appointed Chief Executive of Edizione s.r.l., the Benetton family’s holding company, a position he held for three years.
In 2017, he joined the Board of AC Milan, keeping the position until 2022.
In 2018 he founded MP Invest, a financial and investment advisory firm. In this role, among others, he arranged the acquisition of Inwit from a consortium led by Ardian and he served as Board Member and Strategic Advisor of Digital Value, driving the listing of the company to the Milan Stock Exchange.
Between 2019 and 2023, he has been Chairman of A2A, the Italian utility company acting in energy, waste and water and listed on the Milan stock exchange. In his role of Chairman he served also as Vice President of Utilitalia, and Chairman of “Banco dell’Energia” Foundation.
From 2019 to 2023 , he acted as senior advisor with Nomura for Italy and Europe, participating to several M&A deals in Italy and abroad.
During his career, he participated to various prestigious honorary boards, as Fondazione Telecom Italia, Fondazione Bocconi and Fondazione Istituto Europeo di Oncologia, and cooperated with several universities in Italy and in the United States. Several articles and publications on Strategy and Finance.