TIM poaches Ericsson lifer Elisabetta Romano for CTO role

Italian telco TIM has appointed former Ericsson networks exec Elisabetta Romano as its new Chief Technology Officer.
Romano (pictured) fills the vacancy left when Giovanni Ferigo left TIM to become the CEO of TIM’s INWIT infrastratructure arm, as announced on 13 April. She had been at Ericsson for 12 years, most recently as EVP & GM, Packet Core & Identity Management and prior to that heading up media solutions and OSS divisions.
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