ALESSANDRO CATTANI
Chief Executive Officer
Born in Milan on 15 August 1963 and graduated in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1990.
Obtained a Master’s with distinction in 1992 from the SDA Bocconi School of Management.
In the mid-1980s, when he was still a university student, he began his professional career, and only two years later became Sole Director of the IT services company of an Italian industrial group producing food plants, where he was head of management control reporting directly to senior management.
After graduating, he launched his own management consultancy, specialising in management control and sales network management for industrial and IT companies.
His clients included the Italian subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, for which he delivered financial training to the network of sellers and marketers operating in the distribution channel represented by resellers and distributors.
From 1996, he carried out work for Comprel, Celo and Micromax, before coordinating, as project manager, the merger and integration plan that led to the creation of Esprinet S.p.A. in 2000.
He became Chief Executive Officer of the company in November of that year. He coordinated the process that resulted in Esprinet’s listing in 2001.
Later on, he was involved in carrying out and integrating acquisitions that would make the Esprinet Group one of the biggest technology distributors in Europe.
He has written articles in specialised technology journals and publications on management techniques and management control. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Directors of Esprinet Iberica S.l.u. and Vinzeo S.A.U..
He is a non-executive director of Agrati S.p.A., one of Europe’s biggest producers of high-resistance hardware. Since January 2021 he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC), a global industry association dedicated to defining and promoting the role of wholesale distribution in the healthy and successful Information Technology channel.
From 2001 to 2003, he sat on the National Governing Council of AISLA, the Italian Association of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Alessandro Cattani summarises and interprets the Group’s international profile, having played a key guiding role in its transformation from a purely domestic entity to a player with panEuropean standing, thanks to his orientation towards innovation management and his particular talent for developing international relations.