MARCO FIORENTINO

Marco Fiorentino was born in 1964 in Milan.
He travelled and studied in the US extensively.
In 1986 he graduated from Princeton University with honors in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, with a minor in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Foreign Affaris.
During his studies, he founded and was Director of the "Princeton Computer Agency", the first university student agency in the US to distribute Microsoft products to students and faculty.
From 1986 till 1989 Fiorentino was consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton, originally in New York, then in Milan, where he advised clients including a "Bell Telephone Company" on new market entry.
In 1991 Fiorentino obtained an Master in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and in the same year returned to Italy as a shareholder and Managing Director of COMM2000 Spa.
In the following nine years, COMM2000 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 was spun off in MESSAGENET Srl.
Marco Fiorentino remained as 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 that manages the main Italian Internet NAP. He is the president of AIIP, the Italian Internet Service Provider Association, and is a co-founder of VOIPEX (VoIP italian operators syndicate).