Fabrizio Di Amato

Biography

Born 1963. A graduated in Political Sciences from La Sapienza University of Rome, he is the Chairman of Maire Tecnimont Group, one of the main engineering contractors in oil & gas and petrochemicals in the world. He began his career as an entrepreneur at the age of 19 by setting up his first company with three employees. He built up the Maire Tecnimont Group over three decades through a process of internal growth and acquisitions. In the first 20 years he laid the basis for the development of a midsize civil engineering group mainly operating in the Italian market. In 2004, he acquired Fiat Engineering from Fiat Group. In this way the Group switched to general contracting, with a specific focus on power generation and transportation infrastructure, and reinforced its international footprint. At the end of 2005, by completing a second major acquisition, that of Tecnimont from Edison, Mr Di Amato expanded the Group’s activities to the oil, gas and petrochemicals business, with a network of subsidiaries and branch offices operating worldwide. The acquisition of Tecnimont was ranked as the second most important transaction of merging and acquisition in Italy, receiving the Award KPMG M & A in 2006.  

Research Interest

engineering contractors in oil & gas and petrochemicalsc