Marco Pisanti is a senior executive and board member with more than 25 years of experience across private equity-backed companies, energy and infrastructure, finance and mergers and acquisitions. He has served as Chairman of the Board in multiple private equity-backed companies, with a track record in fund exits, corporate turnarounds, refinancing, IPO preparation and value creation. He combines an engineering background with financial expertise and hands-on leadership in complex, capital-intensive businesses, and has extensive experience working with private equity funds, large corporates and boards.
Since 2023 he has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Comunità Energetiche SpA, a utility-scale solar photovoltaic business, where he oversees ordinary and extraordinary finance transactions and supervises the development, construction and operation of large-scale photovoltaic plants.
Between 2023 and 2024 he was Chief Financial Officer of Absolute Energy SpA, the renewable energy business, where he led the sale of the company to I Squared Capital, coordinating the financial, legal and advisory workstreams, held full responsibility for administration, finance and control, and reported to the private equity fund while supporting its M&A activities. From 2025 through to the first quarter of 2026 he served as the company’s Chief Strategic Analytics and Digitalization Officer, designing and implementing digital platforms for development pipeline management, leading corporate business planning and strategic investment assessments, and overseeing cybersecurity and data governance frameworks. Earlier, between 2015 and 2023, he was Chief Financial Officer of Absolute Energy Capital, managing the financial affairs of renewable energy and electrification projects in Italy and Sub-Saharan Africa, leading fundraising and the structuring of subsidised and project financing, and providing M&A advisory to investment funds.
He has held further chairmanships across the Italian energy sector. At Plangreen2E, an energy services company backed by the Italian Energy Efficiency Fund, he was Chairman of the Board with finance and control delegation from 2020 to 2025, holding direct responsibility for financial management and controlling and supporting restructuring and refinancing processes. At Selettra SpA, a public sector energy services business, he was Chairman of the Board with finance and control delegation from 2020 to 2023, responsible for financial planning and management control, the management of extraordinary finance transactions, and leading the competitive sale process of the company. He also served on the board of Cremonesi, now Comat, in residential energy services, and on the board of Gees Recycling.
As Chief Executive Officer of C&C Energy between 2010 and 2015, an Italian wind development business with a pipeline of more than 800 MW in Italy and 2,000 MW in Romania, he led M&A negotiations with Vestas for the disposal of special purpose vehicles, secured bank financing for wind projects, and served as chief executive of special purpose vehicles jointly owned with Vestas, including one which obtained full authorisation for a 42 MW Italian wind farm. At Unidata SpA in 2018 he served as Chief Financial Officer and Investor Relations Manager through the company’s listing on the Italian Stock Exchange, preparing the admission document, business plan and equity story and meeting analysts and institutional investors. At CNP, also in 2018, he was Chief Financial Officer, leading a debt restructuring in support of an acquisition and implementing management control and digital reporting systems.
Earlier in his career he spent a decade with the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, from 2000 to 2010, first as Head of Equity Research, managing a team of 15 analysts providing recommendations on more than 100 stocks listed on the Italian market and leading the digital transformation of the bank’s financial analysis systems, and subsequently as an investment banker in M&A, covering origination and advisory including financial restructuring for telecommunications companies. At Wind Telecomunicazioni, between 1996 and 2000, he structured and closed a EUR 2.4 billion project financing and achieved an S&P rating, defined financial risk hedging strategies, and led financial planning for mobile telecommunications licence bids. He began his career at ENEL, where he spent nearly a decade from 1987, conducting strategic and financial evaluation of renewable and infrastructure projects and technical and economic feasibility studies, following research work on combustion and thermodynamic modelling in large steam generators.
He lectured on capital markets and M&A on the Executive MBA programme at LUISS Business School from 2007 to 2019. He holds an MBA from LUISS University in Rome, an Executive Master in Strategy and Strategic Control from MIT, and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome, and is a licensed Chartered Engineer. He is a native Italian speaker and fluent in English, and is based in Rome.
