Vittorio is a business professional with more than 25 years of management expertise in the Optical Networks environment. He joined Alcatel in 1998 and within the company he has held several positions, starting from the technical area in R&D, moving after few years to the business area, where in 2005 he became Sales Manager for Interhouse and Direst Sales of Optics business. From 2007 onward, in Alcatel-Lucent, he has been responsible for the Optics Domain Business Center, covering different areas and customers’ perimeters in Europe. Since 2016, he is responsible within Nokia for the business development for all Mission Critical and Enterprise customers for Optical Networks in Europe. He holds a degree in telecommunication engineering from Politecnico of Milan, Italy. Based in Stuttgart, Germany, his interests are focused on everything related to information technology.