Alessandro Menna
Chief Security Officer, Italgas

Born in Rome in 1980, he graduated cum Laude in Electronic Engineering in 2004, after finalising his studies in the United Kingdom.

In 2004, his professional career began in Finmeccanica, now Leonardo, leader in the Aerospace, Defence and Security sector. From 2013 to 2015, he led the engineering and presale unit  of Cybersecurity and Information Assurance to then become Vice President for Cybersecurity and ICT of the Leonardo Division resulting from the Group companies’ integration process.

In 2019, he was in Capgemini as VP for Cybersecurity. He was then called to take on the position of Managing Director of the Global Business Line Cloud Infrastructure Services, with responsibilities for the Italian business.

He has been Chief Security Officer at Italgas since September 2020. His responsibilities comprise cyber and physical security,corporate intelligence, antifraud, property, facility management and general services for the Group. Italgas is the main gas distributor in Italy with more than 80.000 Km of pipelines across the Country. Italgas has completely digitalised its networks and is further committed to evolve the gas distribution sector to support the national energy transition programs. The Company has recently won an international tender for the acquisition of the Greek national distribution companies.

Alessandro has been elected Member of the Advisory Group at ENISA, the European Agency for Cybersecurity, for the mandate 2018-2020 and 2023-2025.