Francesco Profumo is a businessperson who has been the head of 15 different companies and presently is Chairman of Panel 09, Chairman for Fondazione European School of Management Italia, President-Executive Board at Turin Euro-Latin American Forum, Member of IEEE Industry Applications Society, Chairman for Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Chairman of Italy Ministry of Education Universities & Research and Chairman of ESCP Business School Turin Campus. Francesco Profumo is also Chairman for Fondazione Bruno Kessler, President of ACRI Associazione di Fondazioni e di Casse di Risparmio SpA, Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Member of Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Member of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Member of Academia Europaea Ltd and Member-Management Committee at Hysy Lab and on the board of 5 other companies.

He previously occupied the position of Chairman of Iren SpA, Chairman at Columbus Association, Chairman for Infrastrutture Wireless Italiane SpA, President of Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Chairman for Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca, President of The National Research Council, Design Engineer at Hitachi Rail STS SpA and Member of IEEE Power Electronics Society.

Mr. Profumo received an undergraduate degree from Politecnico di Torino.