Mr Gambardella is the Chairman of the Executive Board of ETNO, European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association He has joined the Telecom Italia Group in 1999, in charge of relations with the National Regulatory Authority, and he is currently Group Vice President for Relations with International Institutions and Organisations.

From 1996 to 1999 Mr Gambardella ran the regulatory and Institutional affairs for Olivetti.

He is also President of EUBrasil – the Association for the development of the relationship between Europe and Brazil,  BIAC Vice Chair to the OECD ICCP Committee, a member of the Advisory and Support Group of BUSINESSEUROPE, a member of the board of the Transatlantic Business Council, a member of the board of the European Internet Foundation, Associate at the European Round Table of Industrialists, President of Puntoit – the Italian Association for the development of the digital economy.

Mr Gambardella has contributed, through its professional career, to all the phases of policy frameworks’ development of the European e-communication industry, last but not least to the development of the Digital Agenda in Europe and its latest reviews.

Mr Gambardella graduated in economics from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.