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Telecom Italia: Leadership Change
Telecom Italia named Mirko Mischiatti (from Poste Italiane) as chief enterprise and innovative solutions officer, replacing Elio Schiavo, and Claudio Ongaro as CTO, replacing Leonardo de Carvalho Capdeville. Both departing executives leave by year-end; CEO Pietro Labriola is covering Ongaro's former responsibilities on an interim basis.
Source: Mobile World Live
- What happened
- Telecom Italia named Mirko Mischiatti (from Poste Italiane) as chief enterprise and innovative solutions officer, replacing Elio Schiavo, and Claudio Ongaro as CTO, replacing Leonardo de Carvalho Capdeville. Both departing executives leave by year-end; CEO Pietro Labriola is covering Ongaro's former responsibilities on an interim basis.
- Who
- Telecom Italia · Telecommunications · Italy
- When
- 2026-10-19
- Source
- Mobile World Live
- So what
- A change at the top rarely stays at the top.
The leadership read
A change at the top rarely stays at the top. Telecom Italia's move reshapes the layer beneath it in Telecommunications as a new leader sets priorities and the team re-forms. Watch the first two or three appointments that follow; they signal direction more reliably than any statement.
Market context: Backdrop: a 122.7 (Hot) Talent Market Index (up 17.8 on the month) with EMEA activity easing (-17.7pts).
Telecom Italia: 1 signal in the last 90 days — in line with the Telecommunications median of 1 across 27 tracked companies.
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