Alessandro Petazzi has extensive experience in entrepreneurship, corporate strategy, and scaling technology-driven businesses. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer of lastminute.com group in December 2024, with effect from 1 January 2025.

Alessandro graduated in Business Administration from Bocconi University and Copenhagen Business School. His career began in M&A at JPMorgan in London and as a consultant at Bain & Company in Milan.

In the early 2000s, he joined Fastweb, a telecom startup that grew into a market leader, where he worked on strategy, investor relations, and eventually led the IPTV and VOD business unit from inception to profitability. For his achievements, he was recognised in Cable & Satellite’s Euro50 list of influential figures in pay-TV across EMEA.

In 2009, Alessandro founded On Cubed, a consulting boutique specialising in Pay TV and VOD, serving clients such as LG, SKY, and Philips.

In 2013, he co-founded Musement, a company that became one of the top global leaders in the Tours & Activities sector of online travel. Under his leadership as CEO, Musement was acquired by TUI Group in 2018 and subsequently grew to over 800M€ in annual revenues. Alessandro oversaw its integration and growth until transitioning to a non-operational advisory role.

For the last ten years, Diego Fiorentini has worked as CFO on a mandate basis for various companies. From 2009 to 2014, he was Group CFO of the cleantech company Cavotec Ltd, based in Lugano, where he led a successful IPO on Nasdaq OMX. Prior to that, Diego Fiorentini worked in finance and treasury functions at Italmobiliare SpA, the oldest listed holding company on the Italian stock exchange. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Corporate Finance from Bocconi University, Milan.