Andrea Brentan was a research assistant at New York University from 1975 to 1977 and then held various positions at GIE, an Italian power plant contractor operating worldwide, until the beginning of 1991. From 1991 to 1999, he successively held the positions of chief financial officer, general manager and chief executive officer at Sae Sadelmi, a Milan-based company belonging to the ABB Group which engages in power plant engineering, procurement and construction and electrical generation equipment manufacturing and service. From 2000 to 2002, he was the head of the worldwide steam power plant business at Alstom, based in Paris. He joined Enel in November 2002 as head of International Operations and Business Development of our Generation and Energy Management Division. He is currently head of the Business Development Unit of our International Division.