Marco Alverà was born in New York and co-founded Zhero, a renewable energy company. Mr Alverà is also a Shareholder, Co-founder and CEO of Tree Energy Solutions, a world-leading hydrogen and renewable gas player. He has over 20 years of senior management experience in Europe’s most relevant energy companies and is the author of The Hydrogen Revolution, selected as one of the Financial Times’ best books of 2021.

Mr Alverà began his career at Goldman Sachs in London before starting and selling a telecom company and then moving to Enel, one of today’s world’s largest green electricity companies. He subsequently moved to Eni, where he worked for over 10 years, until becoming Chief Midstream Officer and supervising the largest European gas portfolio. From 2016 to 2022, Mr Alverà was the CEO of Snam, where he positioned the company as an international leader in green hydrogen and green-gas infrastructure. Since 2017, he has been Non-Executive Director of S&P Global and Chair of the Finance Committee.

Mr Alverà is a member of the executive board, the Steering Committee of the Giorgio Cini Foundation in Venice and a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford. He is a co-founder of the Kenta Foundation, active in promoting gender balance and combating educational poverty. He holds a degree in philosophy and economics from the London School of Economics.