Franco Bernabè is an independent non-executive Director of the Company.

MrBernabè is a holder of doctorate's degree of Political Economy. He is the Chairman of the Franco Bernabè Group and Vice Chairman of H3G. He is also a vice chairman of Rothschild Europe, Pininfarina Spa non-executive Director and Areoportidi Bologna independent non-executive Director. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of ENI and Telecom Italia. He has also served as a special representative of the Italian government for the reconstruction of the Balkan region. MrBernabè joined ENI in 1983 to become an assistant to the chairman; in 1986 he became director for development, planning and control; and between 1992 and 1998 was the Chief Executive Officer of ENI. MrBernabè led the restructuring program of the ENI Group, making it one of the world's most profitable oil companies. Between 1998 and 1999, MrBernabè was the Chief Executive Officer of Telecom Italia. Prior to his joining ENI, MrBernabè was the head of economic studies at FIAT. He was also a senior economist at the OECD Department of Economics and Statistics in Paris. Prior to that, he was a professor of economic politics at the School of Industrial Administration, Turin University. Mr Bernabè has been appointed as an independent non-executive Director of the Company since June 2000.