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Paolo Bertoluzzo resigns to head up Italy’s ICBPI after 17 years with mobile group.
Vodafone’s group strategy chief Paolo Bertoluzzo has tendered his resignation and will leave the mobile group in July.
Bertoluzzo, who was appointed to the role of group chief commercial operations and strategy officer in August 2013 and is widely considered to be the telco’s number two executive behind CEO Vittorio Colao, is leaving to become chief executive of Italian finance firm ICBPI, Vodafone announced late on Monday.
He will depart on 8 July. Vodafone said it will name his successor "in due course."
In a statement, Colao talked up Bertoluzzo’s contribution to the company, both at Vodafone’s Italian business and during his time serving on the group’s executive committee.
"I wish him every success in his new role, which I know he will undertake with the devotion and commitment that drove so many valuable and effective initiatives during his 17 years with Vodafone," Colao said.
Bertoluzzo joined Vodafone in 1999 as strategy and business development director and held a number of senior positions at the company – including chief operating officer and chief commercial officer – before being appointed as CEO of Vodafone Italy in 2008, a post he held until he took up his current role in 2013.
