Executive Team

Elisabetta Romano has been appointed Chair of Sparkle in June 2023.

From 2020 to 2022 she was CEO of Sparkle, and since August 2022 she is Chief Network Operations & Wholesale Officer of TIM.

She joined TIM Group in 2018 as Chief Technology Officer and in 2019 she was appointed Chief Innovation & Partnership Officer.

With a degree in Computer Science, Elisabetta Romano has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications field, where she was involved in corporate strategy with a sector development and transformation approach, in Italy and abroad.

Her career began in 1987 at Alcatel, and continued from 1998 at Ericsson, where in 2012 she became Head of Operations Support Systems at the Stockholm headquarters. In 2015 she took on the role of Head of the TV & Media Division, based in Santa Clara, California, and, still at Ericsson, in 2017 she was responsible for the Core Network division, dealing in particular with services related to mobile broadband connected to 5G technology.

Enrico Bagnasco was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sparkle on 17 November 2022.

He has been Chief Technology Officer at Sparkle since September 2019. Prior to that, from July 2018 he was TIM CTO’s Product & Portfolio Manager and from September 2016 he led TIM Technology Innovation with focus on 5G, network virtualization and slicing, big data analytics and cognitive computing.

Before, he held different management responsibilities in Telecom Italia in the areas of OSS, Service Platforms and Network engineering, including IP metro, CDN, wireline broadband access, home devices, VoIP/IMS, contact center, video platforms and IoT services.

He joined CSELT (Telecom Italia’s R&D center) in 1988 and led research and standardization activities on network management and service platforms in ETSI, ITU and TeleManagement Forum.

He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Torino.

Riccardo is an international minded executive with 30 years of experience in the ICT services and infrastructures fields, dealing with growth and rationalization projects approached with strategic thinking and operational focus. He is a long lasting Board and Executive Committee Member in various Telco and ICT companies within historical Telecom Italia/TIM investments abroad. 

He has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of Sparkle in September 2022 and spent last 10 years holding various responsibility roles in Strategic Planning, Marketing, Innovation, Business/Corporate Development and Project Management.

Riccardo has been working in the Company since 2004, starting as Head of Planning & Control of Subsidiaries.

He joined Telecom Italia Group in 1992 as Senior Analyst in Strategy Department at corporate level. Then moved to International Operations from 1995 to 2004 where he held different roles and responsibilities within Planning & Control Dpt., acting as a controller and participating to several M&A projects worldwide in that period.

Before joining the Telecommunication Group he worked for Eli Lilly, a US pharmaceutical company, as a manufacturing plant engineer & planner and as treasury analyst. In 1988 he began his career in Elettronica S.p.A., a company in the Electronic Defense field, as Radar System Engineer.

He holds an MBA from the Bocconi University in Milan and a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome.
 

Daniele Mancuso has been appointed Chief Product Management for Sparkle Group in October 2020.

From September 2019 to October 2020 he held the position of Chief Marketing Solutions & Business Development Officer.

In the previous years, he served as Executive Vice President ICT Engineering, where he was in charge of the technological innovation, planning, engineering and development of Sparkle’s Global Network as well as of Information Technology. 

From August 2016 he held the position of Director of Innovation & Engineering, in charge of the engineering and deployment of Voice, Mobile, IP and & Data Platforms as well as of Submarine Cables, ICT Security Processes & Platforms and Datacenters & Cloud Infrastructures, while leading the Network Innovation and Evolution processes.

Prior to that he was Director Architecture & Engineering. 

He began his career in in 1991 in a Software House dealing with Robotics applied to Agriculture and, in 1993, he moved to Telecom Italia’s domestic Transmission department, focusing on the migration from PDH to SDH technology. 

In January 2013 Daniele was appointed Director of Engineering, IT & Security of Sparkle Mediterranean & Balkan Region where, since 2001, he has been holding several positions within Engineering & Operations departments. 

Daniele holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Catania.

Pierpaolo has been appointed Chief Technology Officer of Sparkle in April 2023 with the responsibility of ensuring - for the Sparkle Group - the provisioning processes and service operations, as well as customer relations activities and technical assistance to customers. The Department also ensures the evolution of network infrastructures and architectures, technological innovation, engineering and the development of network and service infrastructures.

He has worked for over 24 years in TIM Group, where he has held various roles and positions with increasing responsibility over time. He began his work experience in the IT area, with responsibilities on projects and operational areas ranging from Operations to the management of four Application Development Factories.

In 2016 he moved to Finance Department of the Group as Head of Revenue Assurance and in the same year he also took on the role of Domestic Planning & Control. Subsequently, he was called back to work in the CTIO Department with the role of Head of Governance (IT and Network).

He later took over the role of Head of the BSS (Business Support System) function and Deputy to the CIO in the Chief IT Corporate & Market Systems Office, with the objective of managing Information Technology from an E2E perspective and overseeing the implementation of digital transformation projects.