Vittorio Colao
Summary
Vittorio Colao (born 3 October 1961]) is an Italian businessman, the current Chief Executive of Vodafone Group.Colao's compensation from Vodafone in 2009 included his annual salary of €932,000, and a bonus of €881,000. Combined with other payments the total was €2,264,000.The son of an officer in the Carabinieri, Colao was born in n Brescia. After studying business at Bocconi University and holding an MBA with Honours from Harvard Business School, he spent time in London at investment bankers Morgan Stanley. Colao joined the Milan office of McKinsey & Co in 1986, where as a Partner he worked on media, telecommunications and industrial goods sectors and was responsible for office recruitment.In 1996 he joined Omnitel Pronto Italia, rising to Chief Operating Officer before its take over to become Vodafone Italy.
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Vodafone: A difficult call to make
Speaking before a room of his closest rivals and others at an industry summit in Brussels, Vittorio Colao was not shy in pointing out what needs to be done to speed consolidation in the European telecommunications sector.
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Vodafone says data services offer biggest growth opportunity
Income from connecting smartphones to internet is up 22%, helping balance decline in voice call revenues.
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MWC 2012: the smartphone stars come out to play
One of the more dramatic moments at this year's Mobile World Congress – the industry's monster annual get together in Barcelona – came when Vodafone chief executive Vittorio Colao had to be evacuated, along with a room full of journalists, from the company's pavilion.
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Cable & Wireless Worldwide tie-up with Vodafone looks beneficial from both ends of the line
Now Cable & Wireless Worldwide is on to its third chief executive in eight months, why stop there? Number four could just be a phone call away - assuming Vodafone boss Vittorio Colao picks up his handset.
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Vodafone: we're an emerging markets company
Vodafone is changing from a "European company" to an "emerging markets company", its chief executive Vittorio Colao has claimed, as it beat a sharp downturn in Southern Europe to deliver a 4. 1pc hike in revenues.
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Vodafone under fire for bowing to Egyptian pressure
• Activists seek protocols to curb use for propaganda• Bahrain, Malaysia and China cited as risky states.
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Vodafone: India IPO may be next year
Vodafone will not float its Indian business before next year, chief executive Vittorio Colao has said.
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Vodafone: Bumper Data Growth In Europe On Slowing Service Revenue Overall
The rise of smartphones has meant a big boost in data use and data revenues, but in many cases that is still not offsetting declines for mobile operators in other areas, a trend illustrated by Vodafone’s quarterly results, issued today.
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Vodafone CEO: Lawmakers Should Ignore Facebook's Anti-Regulation Call
At the recent G8 meeting in Paris, Mark Zuckerberg told French president Nicolas Sarkozy, hosting the event, the internet needs light-touch regulation to free businesses to innovate. But, in keeping with the European Commission’s current approach, Sarkozy is keener on a kind of responsible legislation that protects consumers and culture from privacy, competition and other abuses.
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Rainmaker: Vittorio Colao in for a long game with Verizon
Vodafone's move to sell its stake in France's SFR last weekend inevitably leads City watchers to question when the quiet man of Vodafone - Vittorio Colao - might move on to what many see as the priority item on his agenda: how to make money from the mobile phone group's 45pc stake in Verizon Wireless.
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