Stefano Venier (born April 3, 1963, in
Udine
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,
Italy
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) is an Italian
business executive
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Executives run companies or government agencies. They create plans to help their organizations gr ...
. Since 2022, he has served as CEO of
Snam. Previously, from 2014 to 2022, he held the position of
CEO
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CEOs find roles in variou ...
of the
Hera Group.
Biography
Education
Stefano Venier earned a degree in Mathematical and Physical Sciences, specializing in
IT, from the
University of Udine
The University of Udine (Italian language, Italian ''Università degli Studi di Udine'') is a public university in the city of Udine, Italy. It was founded in 1978 as part of the reconstruction plan of Friuli after the 1976 Friuli earthquake, ear ...
. He later completed a Master in Energy and Environmental Economics at the Scuola Enrico Mattei.
Career
Stefano Venier began his professional career in May 1987 at
Zanussi
Zanussi () is an Italian producer of home appliances that was bought by Electrolux in 1984. Zanussi has been exporting products from Italy since 1946.
History
The Zanussi Company began as the small workshop of Antonio Zanussi in 1916. The 2 ...
, a
Friuli
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-based company within the
Electrolux Group, where he worked in
industrial automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machine ...
.
In 1989, he joined EniChem, the
petrochemical
Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining. Some chemical compounds made from petroleum are also obtained from other fossil fuels, such as coal or natural gas, or renewable s ...
subsidiary of the
Eni
Eni is an Italian oil and gas corporation.
Eni or ENI may refer to:
Businesses and organisations
* Escuela Nacional de Inteligencia, the Argentine intelligence academy
* Groupe des écoles nationales d’ingénieurs (Groupe ENI), a French engi ...
Group, where he held various roles, including Strategic Planning Assistant, Head of
Market Analysis
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, and later, Head of Strategic Projects.
[
In 1996, he joined the ]management consultancy
Management consulting is the practice of providing consulting services to organizations to improve their performance or in any way to assist in achieving organizational objectives. Organizations may draw upon the services of management consultants ...
company A.T. Kearney. In 2002, he was appointed Vice President
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of Energy & Utilities.Business Development
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and Strategic Planning
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, in 2008 he took on the role of General Manager
A general manager (GM) is an executive who has overall responsibility for managing both the revenue and cost elements of a company's income statement, known as profit & loss (P&L) responsibility. A general manager usually oversees most or all of ...
of Development and Market. Finally, in April 2014, he became CEO, a position he held until spring 2022.Ellen MacArthur Foundation
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in 2017Russo-Ukrainian War
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following Russian invasion of Ukraine
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in 2022, he emphasized energy security
Energy security is the association between national security and the availability of natural resources for energy consumption (as opposed to household energy insecurity). Access to cheaper energy has become essential to the functioning of modern ...
.[
Under his leadership, Snam acquired two floating storage and regassification units ( FSRU), namely “Golar Tundra” (renamed Italis LNG in 2024) and “BW Singapore”, which are floating vessels for the storage and regasification of natural gas.]
Publications
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Awards
* 2017: “Utility Manager - Local public services” award by AGICI
External links
Stefano Venier, Chief Executive Officer of Snam
References
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Italian businesspeople
Italian chief executives
1974 births
Living people