Italtel: Gerardo Benuzzi New Chief Operating Officer

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Apr 29, 2013, 02:00 ET

MILAN, April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

Gerardo Benuzzi is the new Chief Operating Officer of Italtel. Gerardo Benuzzi (Milan, 1960) has been general manager of CIR. Before joining the group he was general manager Finance & Advisory of Pirelli & C. Real Estate, one of the leading Italian real estate companies, where he had entered in 1997 and covered positions of increasing importance. Previously he had worked for approximately ten years in the planning and control area of the Pirelli group tire industry, with experiences in Italy and Brazil.

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Gerardo Benuzzi, who joins the Board of Directors of Italtel SpA, will respond to the Chief Executive Officer Stefano Pileri and will be responsible for the areas of Finance, Accounting and Controlling, Human Resources and Organization, Communication, Procurement and Logistics.

"On behalf of the Board of Directors - said Italtel CEO Stefano Pileri - I welcome Gerardo Benuzzi in the company. His capabilities and experience gained during many years of activity in Europe and South America represent a strengthening of the management team committed, after the successful closing of the financial restructuring, in the phase of relaunching and development of the company as outlined in the new industrial plan. Also thanks to the renewed trust of banks and shareholders, Italtel today looks at the future confident that it can count on a well recognized competitiveness and a state-of-the-art technological know-how."

Italtel Group

Italtel designs, develops, implements solutions for NGN and NGS; Professional Services dedicated to the design and maintenance of networks; IT System Integration Services; Network Integration and migration activities. Italtel counts among its customers more than 40 of the world's top TLC Operators and SPs. In Italy Italtel is also reference partner of Enterprises and Public Sector for the deployment of IP Next-Generation Networks and for the development of multimedia convergent services for their customers. Italtel is present in 25 countries including France, UK, Spain, Germany, Belgium, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Argentina, Brazil. http://www.italtel.com.