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Marco Patuano (born June 06, 1964) is an Italian manager.
Since April 13, 2011 he is Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Telecom Italia.
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Biography
Education
Patuano graduated from Bocconi University, in Milan, in 1990 with specialisation in Corporate Finance. [1]
Career
In the same year, after a short period spent in the US, Patuano starts his career in Telecom Italia, then called SIP. He was at the central Headquarters of the company, working in the financial sector.
He also contributed to the start-up of the mobile telephony company TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) as chief financial officer.
Patuano's international career began in 2003 when he was appointed CFO of TIM Brasil and Telecom Italia America Latina S.A., both Telecom Italia subsidiaries.
From 2004 to 2006 he was General Manager of Telecom Italia Latam; in this capacity he was a member of the Boards of Directors of the Telecom Italia subsidiaries in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Paraguay. He also held operational positions in three of the companies. In this period he rationalised the portfolio of the Telecom Group companies with the sale of the Chile, Peru and Venezuela interests. In the same period e was also a member of the Board of Directors of the USA branch of Telecom Argentina, and of American internet companies connected with the Group.
In 2006 he became Director of Fixed Telephony of Telecom Argentina, and from May 2007 to July 2008 was Operational General Manager for the entire company (fixed and mobile telephony). At this time Patuano directly undertook responsibility for the business, working for the company's turn around.
In 2008, Franco Bernabè called him back to Italy to become Chief Financial Officer of the Group in August of that year.
From September 2008 to December 2009 he was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Italtel S.p.A., to improve the process of the company's financial improvement.
In November 2009 he was put in charge of the Telecom Italia domestic market sector, managing all the company's business units in Italy. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Bocconi, with which he collaborates regularly, of the Board of Fondazione Telecom Italia and since July 2012 of UPA, the association of advertising users. He is also member of the Board of Directors of Olivetti.
On May 22, 2013 he was also appointed to the council of Confindustria.