Luigi Ferraris, who is the new head of Ferrovie in place of Battisti

27 May 20213 years ago babelfish

Turnaround at the top of the Railways group. The Draghi government has appointed Luigi Ferraris, former head of Terna's company, as CEO. Here is the curriculum

Turning to the top of the Railways group.

The Draghi government has not confirmed either the president or the CEO: both Vittorio Castelli and Gianfranco Battisti have been replaced .

Luigi Ferraris will be CEO, Nicoletta Giadrossi as president.

With these two names Draghi inaugurates a new season at the helm of Italian Railways, 100% controlled by the Ministry of Economy headed by Daniele Franco.

APPOINTMENTS IN RAILWAYS

The shareholders' meeting of Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, which met today, approved the 2020 financial statements and appointed the new board of directors for the three-year period 2021-23, which is composed of Nicoletta Giadrossi, Luigi Ferraris, Pietro Bracco (accountant and professor at Luiss , energy expert), Stefano Cuzzilla (president of Federmanager), Alessandra Bucci ( manager of the FS group ), Silvia Candiani ( CEO of Microsoft Italy ), Riccardo Barbieri Hermitte ( manager of Mef, head of analysis financial ).

HERE IS THE CURRICULUM OF LUIGI FERRARIS

Luigi FERRARIS, born in '62, one year after having concluded his mandate as CEO of Terna, arrives at the helm of the FS group.

Born in Legnano and graduated in Genoa in Political Economy, FERRARIS began his career in the auditing sector of PriceWaterhouse in 1988. Since 1990 he has held various managerial positions in companies such as Agusta, Piaggio VE, Sasib Beverage, Elsag Bailey Process Automation.

Between 1998 and 1999 Luigi FERRARIS assumed the position of Chief Financial Officer in Elsacom, a company of the Finmeccanica group. In 1999 he joined the Enel group where, with increasing responsibilities, from 2009 to 2014 he was appointed CFO of the Group.

Since February 2015, he has joined the Poste Italiane Group and, as CFO, leads its listing on the stock exchange. From 2017 to 2020 Luigi FERRARIS was Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Terna. During its management, several important projects came into operation at Terna, including the Italy-Montenegro interconnection, which plays a strategic role in the integration of renewable sources and which, by connecting the Balkans to the Italian peninsula, allows Italy to strengthen its role as an energy hub in Europe and the Mediterranean.

As FERRARIS himself recalled during his speech at the Shareholders' Meeting of 18 May 2020 drawing up his balance sheet, in the three-year period Terna "continued to invest to ensure an increasingly modern, efficient, flexible and sustainable electricity grid, guaranteeing the safety of '' supply in conditions of optimal quality and efficiency for families and businesses. At the end of these three years, all the main economic and financial indicators showed a significant increase, with revenues, ebitda, net profit and investments, growing respectively by 9, 13, 20 and 48% compared to the level at the end of 2016. Furthermore, , in the last three years we have distributed approximately 1.4 billion euros of cumulative dividends to our shareholders ”.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/primo-piano/luigi-ferraris-chi-e-il-nuovo-capo-azienda-di-ferrovie-al-posto-di-battisti/ on Wed, 26 May 2021 20:15:59 +0000.