Pasquale pistorio biography

Pasquale Pistorio (born 6 January 1936, in Agira) is an Italian company director, ex president of STMicroelectronics and board member of Confindustria.

From 17 April 2007 until 3 December 2007 he was president of Telecom Italia. He graduated in Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino, his early career was at Motorola where he became the European marketing director in 1967.

He later became Director of WorldWide Marketing, Vice President of Motorola Corporation and Director General of the International Semiconductor Division, responsible for planning, production and marketing worldwide excluding the USA.

In 1980 he returned to Italy to lead the SGS group, a microelectronics company that went on to merge with the semiconductor arm of Thompson, a French electronics company, becoming SGS-Thomson Micr