Guido Barbieri

Guido Barbieri was born in Milan on 12 June 1966. In 1990 he graduated with honours in economics at Luigi Bocconi University, Milan, where he subsequently collaborated on a research project about media groups in Europe. He began his career in 1991 in Fininvest S.p.A., as a planning analyst in the Group Planning and Control Management Office, before going on to be appointed Consolidated Budget and Reporting Manager of the Television Division. In 1995, he moved to Mediaset S.p.A. as Group Consolidated Financial Statements and Budget and Reporting Manager. In 1997, he was also put in charge of the M&A function. In 2000, he was appointed Vice General Manager of Mediatrade S.p.A. (the group company operating in the purchase and sale of rights on international markets and the production of fiction content), becoming General Manager in February 2002 and Chairman of the Board of Directors in July the same year. From January 2003 to June 2011, he was General Manager of the Rights Area of RTI and in September 2007 was also put in charge of the Sports Rights area. In the second half of 2011, he was Project Manager for the EI Towers – DMT S.p.A. merger.

He has been Managing Director of EI Towers S.p.A. since 2011 and is the Chairman of several of the Group’s main subsidiary companies.