Barbara Poggiali

Chair

Barbara Poggiali is the Chair of Fondo Italiano d’Investimento SGR, a role she has held since May 2022. She has held several executive roles: she was Managing Director of the Cybersecurity Division of Leonardo; from 2014 to 2017, she was Head of Strategic Marketing of Poste Italiane and Chairman of PosteMobile; previously she was Executive Vice President and Board Member at LUISS University and was a Partner at Earlybird Ventures. From 2004 to 2011, she was Chief Development Officer of RCS MediaGroup where, in 2009, she also served as CEO of Dada. Since 1995 she has held top management positions at Omnitel (now Vodafone Italy), e-Biscom (now Fastweb) and Cable and Wireless Plc. She started her career at McKinsey & Company and then moved to Bain. She is currently an independent director of Erg, of Business Integration Partners, Epta Refrigeration, and Prima Industrie, of San Quirico Renewables and a board member and angel investor of My Air Inc., and senior advisor of Klecha. Some of her past board directorships include Falck Renewables, ASTM, BFF Bank and Bocconi University.

Barbara Poggiali holds a Bachelor of Science, a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984, in 1985, and in 1987 respectively.