Marco DE BENEDETTI
Managing Director, Carlyle Group
Marco De Benedetti graduated in History and Economics from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT - USA) in 1984. Later he attended the Wharton Business School (Philadelphia, PA - USA) where he obtained a Master in Business Administration in 1987.
In July 1999 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of TIM. Following the merger between Telecom Italia and TIM, in July 2005 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia, a position he has held until his resignation in October 2005.
From November 2005 he is Managing Director of The Carlyle Group and he is a member of the European Telecom Committee of the fund; furthermore he’s a member of the following Committees: Cofide SpA and Parmalat SpA.