Alessandro Picardi has been a member of Acea’s Board of Directors since September 2026.

He is currently Chairman of VL Capital and Nexting. Alongside his corporate roles, he holds a number of positions within business and institutional organisations: he is Vice-President of Assolombarda and a member of Confindustria’s General Council, as well as a member of both the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Centro Studi Americani. Over the course of his career, he has also held responsibilities in Corporate Affairs at Renault Group Mobilize.
 

From 2019 to 2022, he served as Executive Vice President of TIM, alongside his role as Chief Public Affairs Officer, which he held until April 2022. During the same period, he also served on the Board of Directors of Sparkle and, in April 2022, was appointed Executive Chairman of Olivetti, with operational responsibilities. His other roles during these years included serving as Chairman of Finlombarda Gestioni SGR, alongside further corporate governance appointments.
 

Prior to joining the TIM Group, he worked at Rai, where from 2013 he headed Institutional and International Relations before taking responsibility for Strategic Development, a role he held until January 2019. During his time at Rai, he also served as Executive Chairman of TivùSat and, from 2015 to 2018, as a member of the Board of Directors of Auditel.
 

His career in the media and telecommunications sectors had begun several years earlier. From 2004 to 2006, he was responsible for Institutional Affairs and Relations with the Vatican at Sky Italia, before joining Wind Telecomunicazioni in December 2006 as Head of Institutional Affairs, a position he held until August 2012. He then moved to Alitalia, where he served as Vice President, Corporate Affairs from 2012 to 2013.
 

He previously served as President of the Digital Single Market and as Vice-President of both Confindustria Digitale and Asstel. He has also held positions within the governing bodies of the Fondazione Ugo Bordoni, Fondazione Cotec, the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and ISPI. He was also among the founders of Confindustria Radio Televisioni, where he served as a member of the General Council and of the Presidency Council.