Who he is

Alessandro Alfano was born in Agrigento, Sicily, on 31 August 1975.

 

He grew up in a family with Christian and moderate values. His father and his older brother have always been engaged in politics and in direct contact with people. His mother raised him with tender attention.

 

Alessandro soon developed an eclectic personality and he shot ahead in his career thanks to his brightness and his strong relational abilities.

 

By the age of thirty he had conducted various assignments: secretary general of Unioncamere Sicilia since 2006; from 2005 to 2006 regional coordinator of Confcommercio Sicilia and director general of Confcommercio Agrigento; from 2004 to 2005 consultant for the Development and Cohesion Department of the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance; consultant for Azienda Siciliana Trasporti (AST), Sviluppo Italia Sicilia Spa, AST Sistemi Spa, business development Recall Spa, Schulmbergersema Spa, public administration superintendent and head of special projects for Setesi Spa, commercial manager sud Italia Siemens Medical Solution Health Services Italia Srl.

 

Today, he fervently dedicates his time to programmatic think tanks at National Ministries and at the Regional government, at private company meetings and at institutional summits. He likes to spend his spare free time with his old friends and new acquaintances without the need to boast his roles of responsibility.

 

He is a versatile communicator, contriving ideas and maturing new perspectives in diverse frameworks. He is also an able mediator, ready to accept other people’s points of view, assimilating their motivations to his expertise and finding compromising solutions.

 

Yet he is also firm when need be, and he is widely recognized as being direct, frank, steadfast, to the point, outspoken, and extremely realistic and down to earth. Always with an eye out for innovation, he is not merely an entrepreneur, but, being able to furnish tools, planning and ideas, we could call him a real pioneer in forecasting the needs in a sector such as that of economic development, where the leaders are almost always over fifty.

 

Therefore, Alessandro Alfano is not merely an entrepreneur tackling great things, but a true forerunner, a person able to “think big”, to project himself forward, and who, despite the resistance of the “older generation”, is able to affirm his ideas, to bring forth in every situation a gust of innovation in a truly European style – in communication, in information society, in promotion and in re-launch strategies.