Antonino Cusimano has been a member of the Acea Board of Directors since 18 April 2023.
He is a lawyer and has a wide experience as General Counsel with multinational groups, with managerial responsibility for legal affairs, international law, corporate governance, the settlement of global disputes, compliance and anti-bribery, risk management. He has worked and lived in London, Paris and Pittsburgh.
Since 2018 he has been Senior Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Board Secretary of Nexans SA, the second largest cable manufacturer in the world. The group, listed on Euronext Paris, is active in various business areas and supplies a vast range of cables and solutions for power transmission and distribution, including undersea cables for interconnections, for offshore wind farms, high voltage cables for power grids and cables for renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power.
During the period 2016-2017, Antonino Cusimano was Deputy Chairman and Group General Counsel of CMA-CGM SA, the world’s third largest ship-owning group, based in France.
From 2008 to 2016, he worked at Telecom Italia as Group General Counsel, Executive Vice President Legal Affairs and secretary to the Board of Directors.
From 2006 to 2008 he worked at General Electric Oil & Gas in Florence, as Senior Counsel Global Services and Transactions / Senior Counsel M&A.
From 1994 to 2006 he was employed by the PPG Industries International group in Paris, where he held various positions, in 2000 assuming the role of general legal counsel for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
He holds a degree in law from the Università degli Studi di Palermo and continued his legal studies also in the United States of America.
