Chair of Snam S.p.A. and Chapter Zero France Supervisory Board Director, ASM International N.V., Strategy Advisor, Valuecometrics
Monica de Virgiliis has been Chairwoman of Snam since April 2022, the company is one of the leading players in the energy infrastructure industry worldwide. Between 2016 and 2019 she held the office of Independent Director and chaired the Compensation Committee at Snam.
Monica de Virgiliis has achieved a wide range of business transformations in various high-tech strategic sectors, alternating between operating and strategic management roles, and intervening as a leader in business model turnaround in markets impacted by digitalisation.
After dedicating the first part of her career to the semiconductor industry, holding different positions including General Manager of the Wireless Multimedia Division of STMicroelectronics in Geneva and of the Industrial Microcontroller Division of Infineon Technologies in Munich, since 2017 she has been committed to applying her technological experience to the world of energy transformation.
From 2017 to 2019, she was Chief Strategy Officer of the Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission in Paris (CEA).
From 2015 to 2021 she sat in the Board of Directors of Prysmian, from 2019 to 2021 she was on the Board of Directors of the French Company Geodis and from 2021 to 2022 she was on the Board of Directors of Saras. She is currently a Member of the Board of Directors of ASM International N.V., a high-tech Dutch company which is one of the main suppliers of machines for the semiconductor industry, listed in Amsterdam.
Determined to contribute to the energy transition and to the transformation of the industry in line with the Paris Agreement, she founded and is Chairman of the company Chapter Zero France, a platform for dialogue between directors, investors and regulators of the Climate Governance Initiative, the result of a collaboration with the World Economic Forum in 2019.
Monica de Virgiliis graduated with honours in Electrical Engineering from the Turin Polytechnic University. She is trilingual in French, English and Italian. She was born in Turin in 1967.
