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The regulation of the Control and Risks Committee is contained in the Corporate Governance Regulations of Prysmian S.p.A. available here
He was born in Florence on 15 May 1952.
After finishing high school specialising in classical studies, he graduated with honours from a degree in Business and Economics at the University of Florence, while simultaneously working first for a software company and then in the paper industry.
He joined Pirelli’s Tyre Division in 1978, where he was promoted to executive in 1984. After a range of experience with Pirelli in commercial, marketing, M&A and management roles in both Italy and abroad, he was appointed as the Tyre Division’s General Manager in 2001.He was then made CEO of Pirelli Tyre S.p.A. in 2006, and General Manager of Pirelli & C. in 2009. In the 10 years under his leadership, Pirelli Tyre’s sales and EBITDA doubled, generating a positive cash flow, thanks to implementation of a premium strategy which allowed for higher top and bottom line growth with respect to their competitors, culminating in Pirelli becoming the exclusive supplier for F1 from 2010.
From 2006 to 2011, and for two consecutive terms, he was elected president of ETRMA, the European Rubber Manufacturers’ Association.
In 2012 he left the Pirelli Group of his own initiative.
In 2013 he was named as an Independent Director on the board of Snam S.p.A. and took on the role of Chairman for the Control and Risks Committee. He was re-elected for the subsequent three-year period and took on the role of Chairman for the Appointment Committee; he was re-elected for the third three-year period and took on the role of Chairman for the Control and Risks Committee.
From 2013 to 2015 he was an Industrial Advisor at Malacalza Investments – Pirelli’s second largest shareholder.
Since 2014 he has been the Managing Director of the Corporate Credit Recovery 1 fund for Dea Capital Alternatives Funds SGR (part of the De Agostini Group) and since 2018 to 2020 he has been the Senior Advisor for the Corporate Credit Recovery 1 and 2 funds.
In 2015 he was appointed as a non-executive director for the Supervisory and Management Boards of Apollo Tyres, an industry leader listed in India.
From 2016 to 2018 he assumed the executive chairmanship of Benetton Group S.r.l.
He has been a member of the Company's Board of Directors since 18 September 2018, when he was named and co-opted to replace an outgoing board member, subsequently confirmed in office by the Shareholders' Meeting of 5 June 2019.
The Board of Directors has verified that Mr Gori meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
She was born in Norfolk (USA) on 23 November 1954.
She has gained broad experience in accounting and international finance, holding various roles in different industries and geographical areas, including the US, the UK and Italy. A graduate of the University of Virginia, she qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in the United States. She began her career with Arthur Andersen in 1976 in Washington DC, spending 10 years in the audit division, in both the USA and Milan. She then joined the Italian investment bank Euromobiliare as controller. In the early 90’s, she worked in London with Waste Management, first as Head of European Reporting and then in mergers and acquisitions. In 1998, she was appointed CFO for Sotheby’s Italy and served on their boards of directors in Italy and Switzerland. In 2002 she founded International Accounting Solutions, specialising in accounting and outsourcing services.
She has served on various Boards of Directors and as member and chair for a number of audit committees. Her key appointments include: From 2012 to 2014, she was a member of the Board of Directors of FCA - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and served on their Audit Committee. From 2014 to 2020, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Rai Way S.p.A. and chair of the Audit Committee. From 2008 to 2014, she was a member of the Board of Directors of Simmel Difesa S.p.A. From 2012 to 2014, she was a member of the Board of Directors and a member of the Audit Committee for Gentium S.p.A. From 2015 to 2017, she was member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee of Fiera Milano S.p.A.
She has been a member of the Company's Board of Directors since 12 April 2018, where she was elected from the slate presented by the Board of Directors. That slate achieved the majority of votes at the Shareholders’ Meeting.
The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. Bigio meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
She was born in Rome on 18 July 1960.
She graduated magna cum laude in Natural Sciences in 1984 at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. After a first experience in research, she joined Rank Xerox where, from 1986 al 1989, she held technical and commercial roles. In 1989, she became marketing manager at Apollo Computer until October 1989 when, as result of an acquisition, she joined Hewlett Packard, where she remained until December 2010. In Hewlett Packard she diversified her experience, both in Italy and abroad, holding roles of increasing responsibilities in sales, marketing, services, software, general management. In January 2011 she joined Philips as Lighting Vice President & General Manager for Italy, Greece and Israel. Until 1 March 2019, she served as Executive Vice President & General Manager Lighting Europe. She is currently Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer & Head of Division Conventional Products and member of the Board of Management of Signify. From 2011 till 2015, she was President of Luceplan and President of Iltiluce. From 2013 to 2015, she was also CEO of Iltiluce.
She has been a member of the Board of Directors since 16 April 2015. She was elected to her current position by the Shareholders' Meeting on 12 April 2018 from the slate submitted by the Board of Directors, which obtained the majority of votes.
The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. Mariani meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
The regulation of the Remuneration and Nomination Committee is contained in the Corporate Governance Regulations of Prysmian S.p.A. here
He was born in Rome on 1 June 1964.
He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. He holds a Certificate in Capital Markets from New York University, and a Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School. An executive with more than 25 years of international management and financial practice in various industrial sectors, ranging across transport, infrastructure and technology on a number of continents including North and South America (USA, Argentina, Chile, Brazil), Greater Europe (Italy, France, UK, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Russia), the Middle East (Israel, Saudi Arabia, UAE) and Asia Pacific (mainly China and Australia). He possesses a wide range of general management skills, achieved through significant executive and non-executive experience acquired in a variety of positions, including: Chief Transformation Officer of Astaldi S.p.A. (from 2021); Chief Restructuring Officer of Astaldi S.p.A. (2019-2020); CFO of Renova Management AG (2015-2016); CFO and then Deputy General Manager of Alitalia Compagnia Aerea Italiana S.p.A. (2009-2014); General Manager of Merloni Finanziaria S.p.A and CFO of Ariston Thermo S.p.A. (2003-2008); Co-Chief Executive Officer of eNutrix S.p.A. (2000-2003), as well as Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company for their offices in Buenos Aires, Rome and Zurich (1994-2000) and Assistant Director at Leonardo S.p.A. in the New York office (1989-1992). Chairman of the Board, Chairman of the Control, Risks & Finance Committee, member of the Remuneration & Nominations Committee of Be Power S.p.A. (from 2019); Board member and Chairman of AirOne S.p.A. (2009-2014); Independent Board Member and member of the Control & Risks Committee for Indesit S.p.A. (2013-2014); Board member, Chairman of the Audit & Finance Committee, member of the Nominations & Compensation Committee for Octo Telematics Ltd (2015-2017); Board member, Chairman of the Compensation Committee and member of the Nominating & Governance Committee for CIFC Asset Management Corporation (2015-2016).
He has been a member of the Board of Directors since 12 April 2018, when he was elected from a slate presented jointly by a group of shareholders affiliated with asset management companies and institutional investors. This slate achieved the second highest number of votes at the Shareholders’ Meeting.
The Board of Directors has verified that Mr Amato meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
She was born in Milan on 24 July 1968.
In almost 30 years of her career in Italy and abroad, she has gained significant management experience thanks to steadily increasing responsibilities, achieved by securing competitive advantages, market share, profits, sales growth and cost optimisation for the businesses in which she has worked. She is skilled in managing mixed teams and complex business models, adapting them rigorously to local regulatory environments. Whilst studying Telecommunications Engineering at the University of Pavia with an Italtel scholarship, where she began work in 1991, she developed long-distance transmission networks, moving between the AT&T Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and Milan. In 1994, she moved to EMC Italy. After an initial experience at the production facilities in Cork (Ireland), she initially managed and developed the Public Administration sales area, and then the Telecom area. In 1998, she was hired by Digital/Compaq/HP based in Munich (Germany), where she took on various responsibilities at EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) level, including that of EMEA Global Services Executive Director. In an entrepreneurial capacity, she started up and developed MetiLinx, a software company operating in Europe, opening branches in London, Milan and Munich in 2002. In 2004, Pirelli Broadband Solutions appointed her as Senior Vice President for global sales. She then joined Nokia Siemens Networks in 2007 as Global Head of Strategic Marketing. From 2010 to 2013, she was Vice Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia Siemens Networks Italia S.p.A. and of Nokia Siemens Networks S.p.A., as well as Head of European Strategy and Business Development. She has served as Vice Chair of the Executive Committee of the Global Mobile Supplier Association (GSA), as a member of the Governing Council of Valore D. She has also chaired the Research and Innovation Group of the Foreign Investors' Committee in Confindustria (the General Confederation of Italian Industry). She has earned an Executive Master’s degree in Strategic Marketing and Sales Techniques from Babson College, MA, USA, financed by EMC, and an Executive Master’s degree in Marketing Management from SDA Bocconi, financed by Compaq. In addition to a high school diploma in classical studies from Liceo Parini in Milan, she has a High School Graduation diploma from Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, DE, USA.
From June 2012 until June 2014, she was a member of the Management Committee of A2A S.p.A. and was also on their Board of Directors until May 2017 and, from July 2013 to April 2015, she held the office of independent Director at Sace S.p.A. and chaired the Remuneration Committee. From 2015 to 16 April 2018 she was a member of the Board of Directors of Italiaonline S.p.A. and of Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and from 2015 to 2020 she has been an independent member of the board of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A.
She is currently a Director at Saipem S.p.A., where she is also a member of the Governance Scenarios and Sustainability Committee, and a Director of the Supervisory Council at Luminor Bank SA. She is also an Independent Director at Telecom Italia S.p.A. where she is a member of the Related Parties Committee. She is a member of Fortune Most Powerful Women and WCD and of the Climate Change Chapter of the World Economic Forum.
She has been a member of Prysmian Board of Directors since April 2012. She was elected to her current position by the Shareholders' Meeting on 12 April 2018 from the slate submitted by the Board of Directors, which obtained the majority of votes.
The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. Cappello meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
He was born in Milan on 16 September 1962.
After graduating from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan with a degree in Corporate Finance in 1986, he began his career at Ernst & Whinney in the UK. He then joined the Pirelli Group in 1988. After five years in the Treasury department of the Pirelli Group, in 1993 he embarked on a long period of international experience in the Administration, Finance and Control areas of the Pirelli Group’s tyre subsidiaries in Brazil, Spain and Germany. In particular, between 1996 and 2000, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer of Pirelli Neumaticos S.A. in Spain and then of Chief Financial Officer of Pirelli Deutschland A.G. in Germany. In 2000, he became Director of Administration, Planning and Control at Pirelli S.p.A. In 2001, he was appointed General Manager of Administration and Control at Pirelli S.p.A., a role he has maintained in the holding company Pirelli & C. S.p.A. after the merger with Pirelli S.p.A. that took place in August 2003. From November 2006 until September 2009, he was Chief Operating Officer of Pirelli & C. S.p.A. and was also a member of the Board of Directors of Pirelli Tyre S.p.A. and Chairman of Pirelli Broadband Solutions S.p.A. In addition, from December 2008 to May 2010, he was Chief Financial Officer at Pirelli Real Estate and from June 2009 to May 2010 Executive Chairman of Pirelli Real Estate Credit Servicing S.p.A. He has sat on the Boards of Directors of RCS MediaGroup S.p.A. Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. He has also been a member of the Management Board of Banca Popolare di Milano S.c.a.r.l. and a Senior Advisor to McKinsey. He is currently CEO of Artsana Group, since July 2018 Chairman of Medical Technology and Devices SA and e since July 2020 member of the Board of Directors of Edizione S.r.l.. Between 2002 and June 2008, he was a member of the International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC), set up by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB). He has also been a member of the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG).
He has been a member of the Prysmian Board of Directors since July 2010, Chairman since September 2018. He was elected to his current position by the Shareholders' Meeting on 12 April 2018 from the slate submitted by the Board of Directors, which obtained the majority of votes.
The Board of Directors has verified that Mr. De Conto meets the requirements set out in Article 148, paragraph 3, TUF and in Articles 3.C.1 and 3.C.2 of the Code, qualifying him as an Independent Director of the Company.
The regulation of the Sustainability Commitee is contained in the Corporate Governance Regulations of Prysmian S.p.A. available here
She was born in Turin on 20 July 1967.
In an international career of more than twenty years she has gained significant leadership experience in a number of high-tech strategic sectors. Her roles have shifted between operational management and strategic direction, and she has led turnarounds in business models and value chain for markets impacted by digitalisation. She began her career in 1993, when she joined Magneti Marelli as Production Engineer in the Electronics Division, based in Pavia. In 1996, she joined the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) with the mission to develop collaborations with Italian companies. Following a highly successful partnership with ST Microelectronics, she joined STM in 2001 as Business Development Manager in the Telecom Wireline Division based in Agrate Brianza (Italy). In 2003, she became the Strategic Alliances Director for the Advanced Technologies Group and moved to their headquarters in Geneva. In 2004, she became Group Vice President in charge of System and Business Development for the Wireless Group. In 2006, she became General Manager of the Home Video Division and in 2007, in conjunction with the changing business model for wireless customers and the advent of smartphones, she became General Manager of the Wireless Multimedia Division (with a turnover of over one billion dollars) and successfully brought about a transformation of the product portfolio and business model. She played a key role in both the acquisition of NXP-Wireless and the establishment of a Joint Venture with Ericsson. In 2010, she left ST-Ericsson and returned to STM, placing her business experience at the disposal of the corporate programmes – first as Group Vice President Organisational Development and then in the Corporate Strategy and Development Division. In 2015, she joined Infineon Technologies as Vice President Industrial Microcontrollers at their offices in Munich and was able to turnaround the product line which she managed. In 2017, she carried out a project at Octo Telematics to integrate the newly acquired Mobility Solutions branch and was active in services that intersected the new technologies, from sharing economy to automotive.
More recently, as Chief Strategy Officer at CEA, an authoritative French public research centre, she led the strategic value chains of sustainable mobility and cybersecurity for the European Industry Strategy Forum founded by the European Commission, generating an action plan structured between state aid, public procurement and regulation. She is based in Paris. She has been a member of the Supervisory Board of Geodis S.A. (SNCF Group) since June 2018 and of the Supervisory Board of ASM International since May 2020.
Deeply passionate about leveraging technology for energy transition and industry transformation towards a 1.5° world, she is co-founder and Chair of the Board of Chapter Zero France, under the auspices of the World Economic Forum as a part of the global Climate Governance Initiative along with 20 other Chapters across the world.
She has been a member of the Company’s Board of Directors since 16 April 2015. She was elected to her current position by the Shareholders' Meeting on 12 April 2018 from the slate submitted by the Board of Directors, which obtained the majority of votes.
The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. de Virgiliis meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
She was born in Taiwan on 5 February 1965.
She graduated with a bachelor degree in Business Administration and Finance from Boston University in 1988 and attended the Finance Executive Management Program of Oxford University in 2003. After experience as Assistant Controller at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Taipei, she moved to GE Capital's Corporate Finance Group in Los Angeles and Connecticut and stayed there from 1991 to 1995. In 1995 she joined American Express in New York as Director of Business Planning and then Director of Business Travel Marketing. She later became Vice President, Head of Investment Planning and Financial Analysis for International in 2000. She moved to London in 2004 as CFO of Europe and International Partnerships and Rewards in the capacity as the Head of Finance for American Express’ “Proprietary Card Business” in Europe. There she directly oversaw all financial processes for the region, including business relating to the “International Membership Rewards” program and all “Co-Brand” partnerships. From 2007 to 2010 she took on the role of Vice President and General Manager of the Commercial Payments Business for the UK and the Netherlands and EMEA Remote Account Management. In 2010 she moved to Rome and became Senior Vice President and Italy Country Manager of American Express, to which she added the role of Head of Card Services Central Europe & International Currency Cards in 2013. She remained in this position until she concluded her career with American Express in 2015.
Since 2016 she has held the position of Independent Director, member of the Nomination and Corporate Governance Committee and member of the Related Parties Committee for Poste Italiane S.p.A. She was also an Independent Director and member of the Nomination and Remuneration Committee and member of the Risk Committee for the Bank of Ireland UK between 2017 and 2020.
She has been a member of Prysmian Group’s Board of Directors since 12 April 2018, where she also serves as a member of the Sustainability Committee. Mrs. Kung was elected from a slate presented jointly by a group of shareholders affiliated with asset management companies and institutional investors. This slate achieved the second highest number of votes from the Shareholders’ Meeting.
The Board of Directors has verified that Ms Kung meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
She was born in Rome on 18 July 1960.
She graduated magna cum laude in Natural Sciences in 1984 at the University "La Sapienza" of Rome. After a first experience in research, she joined Rank Xerox where, from 1986 al 1989, she held technical and commercial roles. In 1989, she became marketing manager at Apollo Computer until October 1989 when, as result of an acquisition, she joined Hewlett Packard, where she remained until December 2010. In Hewlett Packard she diversified her experience, both in Italy and abroad, holding roles of increasing responsibilities in sales, marketing, services, software, general management. In January 2011 she joined Philips as Lighting Vice President & General Manager for Italy, Greece and Israel. Until 1 March 2019, she served as Executive Vice President & General Manager Lighting Europe. She is currently Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer & Head of Division Conventional Products and member of the Board of Management of Signify. From 2011 till 2015, she was President of Luceplan and President of Iltiluce. From 2013 to 2015, she was also CEO of Iltiluce.
She has been a member of the Board of Directors since 16 April 2015. She was elected to her current position by the Shareholders' Meeting on 12 April 2018 from the slate submitted by the Board of Directors, which obtained the majority of votes.
The Board of Directors has verified that Ms. Mariani meets both the eligibility requirements as per TUF article 148, paragraph 3 and the Code’s 3.C.1. and 3.C.2. applicability criteria and is qualified to serve as an independent director of the Company.
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