Francesco Benvenuto

Francesco graduated in Management Engineering and he is Chartered Financial Analyst and member of the CFA Institute since 2016.

He worked for Accenture SpA from 2003 to 2006 where he handled advisory projects on energy issues for the main Italian utilities.

In 2006 he worked at the Dalmine Energie branch of the Tenaris group, where he dealt with market analysis, investment valuation and P&C. He joined the EDF group in 2008, initially working at Edison Trading in Milan and then for EDF SA in Paris, where he held various positions and later became Head of Pricing and Sourcing of the retail and wholesale portfolio and lastly taking the position of Head of Portfolio Management with responsibility for planning and optimisation of the EDF group’s generation park in France.

The strategic activities of his team are of fundamental support for the group’s Business Development and Downstream Services activities: revenues modelling, market analysis, optimisation of market assets, negotiation and pricing of PPAs, management portfolio and financial compliance and reporting.

He has been head of the Energy Management area of Renantis since 2018, he is CEO of Renantis Energy Srl and director of Prima Srl and ECOSESTO SpA.