CEO of F2i - Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture: Renato Ravanelli and his professional profile

Renato Ravanelli is the CEO of F2i - Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture since 2014. He has a long and positive career in energy and infrastructures field that led him to the head of the biggest closed-end fund in Italy and one of the major in Europe. Under his guidance, the fund puts in effects important investments, which have the aim to lead Italian infrastructural sector to be able to compete with European and international ones.

The role Renato Ravanelli plays in F2i

Renato Ravanelli is the current CEO of F2i - Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture. This SGR (Savings Managing Society) was born in 2007 with the precise aim to gather funds, which have to be invested in Italian infrastructural sector. This is due to the need to get Italian infrastructural level competitive with European one. This closed-end fund is the biggest in Italy and one of the major throughout Europe. Two funds have been created so far, the First Fund established in 2007, the Second Fund in 2012. The goal that both of them want to reach is to create lasting values and stable returns. To do so, they purchase majority shares, as well as qualified minority shares of the societies they want to invest in, on order to play an important role in their governance. F2i, indeed, mostly invests in Italian realities, which operate in each infrastructural sector. The aim is to create a varied portfolio of shares. Main areas, where major investments are foreseen, are those belonging to infrastructural, transportation, energy dispatching, water and gas, telecommunications and media, waste disposal, health, public services, social infrastructures sectors. Both funds have an expiration period of 15 years, for managing their investments. First Fund's amount is currently totally allocated, while the Second Fund is still in the middle of gathering resources, but already put into effects many investment plans. Under Renato Ravanelli's guidance, F2i deals with both public and private realities, such as local authorities and businessmen, in both national and international contexts.

Renato Ravanelli's professional profile

Born in 1965, Renato Ravanelli graduates in Economics studying at Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Universtity, in Milan. His career debuts in the academic field, mainly dealing with matters related to insurances and utilities. During the following four year, he works as a macroeconomist and financial analyst by two of the most important financial institutions. He afterwards becomes CFO, being responsible for energy and gas trading as well as strategies director for AEM Group. In 2005 he enters Edison, where he works as CFO and executive member of the administration board until 2007. The following year he gets appointed as executive member of the Managing Board, as well as Managing Director of A2A, the major Italian company operating in energy and gas and environmental field, managing dispatching nets of energy carriers. He maintains this role until 2014, when he gets appointed as CEO of F2i - Fondi italiani per le infrastrutture. Furthermore, starting 2010 Renato Ravanelli is part of Inframed Investment Committee, fund that deals with resources destined to territories of North Africa and Turkey, as an independent member.

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F2i and its investment Funds dedicated to infrastructural field in Italy, conceived for national and international partners, active in both private and public sectors