Vittorio Colao

Italian businessman, CEO of Vodafone, Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition

Vittorio Colao built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.

The record lists Vittorio Colao as Italian businessman, CEO of Vodafone, Minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition.

Vittorio Colao was born at Brescia in 1961. His recorded nationality is Italy. He was educated at Harvard Business School and Harvard University.

Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.

He worked as manager, entrepreneur and businessperson.

His recorded affiliations include Vodafone.

Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.

Recognition followed: Order of Merit for Labour.

That the business was built from Italy shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Vittorio Colao is still active, and the verdict on the career has not been reached.

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