Telecom Italia Rsp

Board/Management Information • Mar 16, 2020

Press Release

TIM: Nicola Grassi appointed new Head of Procurement

Rome, 16 March 2020

TIM announces that Nicola Grassi has joined the Group as Head of Procurement.

Mr Grassi will report directly to the Chief Executive Officer Luigi Gubitosi. He will be responsible for Group-level oversight of vendor assessment and management of procurement processes, monitoring markets for the purchase of products and services, and ensuring overall optimisation of requirements, operating and financial results.

Mr Grassi holds 260,000 company ordinary shares. CV attached for reference.

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NICOLA GRASSI

Nicola Grassi is 56 years old. After studying Electronic Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, in 1990 he obtained a Masters in Information Technology from CEFRIEL, Milan.

From 1991 to 1998 he worked in Operations at Italcable, which then became part of Telecom Italia's International Services Department.

Soon afterwards he joined Infostrada, where he took over management of Network Engineering. Following the merger with Wind, from 2001 Mr Grassi developed his professional career with increasingly responsible roles in the technological field.

From 2006 until 2012 he was Director of Network Development and then moved on to head the Information Technology Department. After that, he took over responsibility as CTIO until 2015, while also becoming a member of the Galata towerco (now Cellnex) Board of Directors.

After a period of consulting at Accenture, in 2017 he joined Ericsson where he became Head of Digital Services for Italy and the South East Mediterranean Region.