MARCO FIORENTINO

Marco Fiorentino was born in 1964 in Milan.
He travelled and studied in the US extensively and in 1986 earned a firts-class degree in Electrical and Information Engineering at Princeton University.
In the same year Fiorentino gained a second degree in Public and Foreign Affairs at Woodrow Wilson School of Princeton University.
During his studies, he founded and was Director of the "Princeton Computer Agency", the first American student agency to distribute Microsoft products.
From 1986 till 1989 Fiorentino was consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, originally in New York, then in Milan, where he built his reputation in the development of new markets for a "Bell Telephone Company".
Having achieved a Masters in Business Administration at Harvard Business School in 1991, Fiorentino returned to Italy as a shareholder and Managing Director of COMM2000 Spa.
In the space of nine years, COM2000 became the second largest provider to Italy.s burgeoning corporate internet services sector, at which point Fiorentino sold COMM2000 to the NASDAQ listed KPNQwest NV, retaining the FreeFAX arm of the business, which is spun off to form MESSAGENET.

Marco Fiorentino remains Managing Director of COMM2000, now trading as KPNQwest Italia, where he led a massive plan for growth and investment.

In 2003 Marco Fiorentino repurchased KPNqwest Italia from KPNQwest NV

Marco Fiorentino has been active in the larger Italian internet community: in 1999 he was heavily involved in the foundation of MIX Srl, the company created to manage the largest interchange for Italy.s internet traffic (MIX NAP). He is the president of AIIP, the Italian Internet Service Provider Association, and co-founder of VOIPEX (VoIP italian operators syndicate).