Open Fiber announces two new entries in the management team first line: Stephen Mazzitelli e Simon Ours. The two new appointments announced today by CEO Marco Rossetti complete the reorganization of resources started by the CEO during the year who can thus count on a renewed team of managers to complete the ambitious development plans of the optical fiber in Italy. An industrial plan that of Open Fiber which provides for the coverage of around 25 million real estate units and puts in place over 15 billion in investments. So let's see who the managers who are entrusted with the task of accelerating the creation of the high-speed Internet network are and what roles they play.
The Open Fiber management team is strengthened, as has been said, with the addition of two new entries: Stefano Mazzitelli will lead the Business Market Division, while Simone Lo Nostro will head the Residential Market Division. That a new phase has opened for Open Fiber can also be seen from the changes in the management structure that have recently been made by themanaging director Mario Rossetti, which has also decided to focus on international experience to strengthen the first line of managers. In fact, now there's a new team and lots of movements, including entrances and departures, while the unique network project with Tim marks the time waiting for the formation of the new government.
The management team of Open Fiber
Mazzitelli has a long experience in the telecommunications sector, where he held positions of increasing responsibility in AT&T, Olivetti/Infostrada, Sprint and Telecom Italia where he also held the role of CEO of Sparkle. Lo Nostro was Chief commercial officer in Sky Italia, previously he worked in the Enel group as Head of marketing and supply and Head corporate sales and in Sorgenia as Market & IT Director.
The two new entries are added to Guido Bertinetti Director of Network & Operations, who after starting his career in Telecom Italia then moved on to work in the telecommunications between Spain and France; until arriving at Ericsson in 2012 as Chief Operations Officer of Iberia & Morocco and subsequently, starting from 2019, as Chief Operations Officer for UK and Ireland, coordinating a team of over a thousand people. The levers of finance have been entrusted to Andrew Crenna, new Director of Administration, Finance and Control arriving from A2A, where he held the role of CFO since 2014 but previously held various positions in many large companies, such as Omnitel Pronto and Vodafone Omnitel first as Head of Treasury and Capital Markets and then as Finance Director; in INDESIT as Group Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Divison Officer/Food Treatment and subsequently in Terna with the responsibility of Group Chief Financial Officer.
Stefano Cusmai, Director of Corporate Affairs, has worked in ASPI since 2007, continuing his career in Atlantia then moving to Cassa Depositi e Prestiti in August 2020 as Head of Corporate Affairs and Special Projects. While the role of Purchasing and Logistics Director has been assigned to Paschal Salvione who began his career in the group in the purchasing sector with various positions of increasing responsibility until finally holding the role of Global Purchasing Manager; in 2014 he joined Royal Philips (in Austria and then in Holland) and subsequently in Webuild as Head of Procurement.
Finally, among the new entries of recent months there are also Ferdinand Gandolfi (former water polo player, winner of a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics), Head of Network and Operations in the center area. From sport to TLC, Gandolfi acquired a long experience first in Tim and then 15 years in Wind as Head of Network Operations South Area. Complete the team Paul Barberis (from Fastweb) Head of Delivery & Assurance. He deals with customer activation, a fundamental role in the new business plan.
Bertinetti: "2023 will be the turning point in the white areas"
Open Fiber is making great strides in the implementation of its industrial plan and has achieved in July a new record of 2 thousand kilometers of infrastructure, laying the foundations for the "turning point" in the White Areas in 2023. This is what Guido Bertinetti explained in a recent interview. An experience that he defines as "exciting" and "positive" thanks to the motivation and skills he found in the Group.
Summing up the accomplished results by the company, with particular reference to the commitments to cover the gray and white areas of the country, the manager recalled that Open Fiber "at the end of 2021, had built around 38 thousand kilometers of infrastructure out of the total 85 thousand of the entire project in the White Areas ” while in 2022 “we expect to build over 18 thousand, that is half of what was done in the previous four years”. And that “in the last four months (July 2022 data), over 500 municipalities have been closed and, at the moment, we have over 1.000 construction sites open. In seven months (since January 2022) we have put 500 FTTH property units available for sale for a total amount of approximately 900 million euros. We can say that 2023 will be the turning point in the white areas”, concluded the Director of Network & Operations.
