Alessandro Foti

Senior Advisor, Private Investor, Independent Board Member

📍 Milan, Lombardy, Italy🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2018
VC🌍 Italy
8
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3
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0
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0
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17y
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Independent Board Member
Apr 2015
YOOX NET-A-PORTER is a leading online luxury and fashion retail business. Made up of four multi-brand online stores, NET-A-PORTER, MR PORTER, THE OUTNET and YOOX, it connects customers to the world’s most coveted brands, bringing them outstanding style and impeccable service. In addition, YOOX NET-A-PORTER’s ONLINE FLAGSHIP STORES partner with world leading luxury brands to power their own e-commerce destinations. With 5.3 million customers in 180 countries, YOOX NET-A-PORTER takes a localised approach to serving its clientele around the globe through its network of offices and operations across the U.S., Europe, APAC and joint ventures with Alibaba in China and Symphony Investments in the Middle East. Across its operations is YOOX NET A PORTER’s Infinity 2030 strategy, its long-term commitment to drive a more sustainable and circular fashion system. Leveraging more than 20 years of data and insights, YOOX NET-A-PORTER continues to embrace next generation technologies including A.I., augmented reality and digital ID to evolve and elevate the customer journey. YOOX NET-A-PORTER is part of Richemont. Follow @YNAP: Instagram For more information visit ynap.com  
Independent Board Member
Apr 2015
INWIT (Italian Wireless Infrastructures) is active in the telco infrastructure business. INWIT is currently Italy’s major Tower Operator with over 23,000 infrastructure assets providing widespread coverage throughout the country, hosting the transmission equipment for all main national operators. INWIT plays a decisive role in delivering wireless mobile coverage within Italy’s territory and will follow through on this commitment in the future, adding new infrastructure to its portfolio as new, breakthrough technologies like 5G are under development. In addition to hosting telco operators on its towers, INWIT is in the process of setting up a DAS (Distributed Antenna System) network that will guarantee excellent coverage in densely populated urban areas like some of Italy’s historic centres and other public areas, as well as in large enclosed areas like shopping malls, concert halls, sporting venues and hospitals. The corporate goal is to provide optimal wireless services, ensuring the clients of all operators who rely on our infrastructure assets enjoy a stable connection to their devices. INWIT currently employs almost 300 professionals, with engineers, technicians and administrative staff that support daily corporate operations.
Investor, Board Member, Investment Committee Member
Mar 2015
e-Novia is the Enterprises Factory where ideas are turned into products, researchers become entrepreneurs, and start-ups are shaped as solid enterprises. Since 2015, e-Novia promotes and grows innovative companies in the areas of robotics, Artificial Intelligence and mobility, by building upon intellectual properties that are created together with research institutes and international corporates. The Factory, based in Milan, is made of 175 talents, 250 with investee and controlled companies, and includes more than 30 entrepreneurial projects based on around 40 patents. Today, e-Novia is one of the most innovative and more sustainable companies in the national landscape. Get in touch with us: communication@e-novia.it
Experience · 11 entries
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2018
Independent Board Member
Apr 2018
Da 150 anni scegliamo di crescere insieme alle persone che ci danno fiducia, nel territorio e per il territorio. BPER Banca oggi è una banca solida perché, forte delle proprie radici, è stata in grado di adattarsi ai cambiamenti facendone il proprio punto di forza. Dal 2009 ad oggi abbiamo affrontato un’importante fase di razionalizzazione e semplificazione del nostro core business. Parallelamente ci siamo preparati a una forte crescita, che culmina nel 2021 con lacquisizione di 486 nuove filiali e 134 punti operativi.
Investment Committee Member
Mar 2018
The Equity Club S.r.l. is a private capital initiative, structured as a Club Deal, offering its shareholders the opportunity to invest directly in mid-cap companies with more flexibility in terms of investment policy, governance and exit strategy compared to a traditional PE fund. A broad investment scope allows us to devise tailored transactions responding to a multitude of potential needs; we target investments in Italian companies with an equity ticket between 40 and 120 €/mln, both in majority and minority stakes, private and public companies, holding and operating companies. The initiative, sponsored by Mediobanca which is also an investor, has raised 500 €/mln of “soft commitment” among more than 80 of the main Italian entrapreneurial families
2015
Independent Board Member
Jul 2015
Burgo Group is one of the leading producers of graphic and specialty papers, collaborating closely with all the most important European markets. Mission: to produce quality paper, in line with the market's evolving needs, at the service of all those who communicate on printed paper. Pursuing a balance between economic development and social and environmental responsibility. The Group is configured as a 'system'​ developed around the world of paper: from the production, distribution, recycling of paper and the processing of forestry products, as well as factoring and energy. Burgo Group makes sustainable development a core part of the business which is present in all processes, from purchase and use of resources, to the return of waste water, as far as the optimisation and re-use of discarded material for energy generation. Furthermore, Burgo Group is committed to expanding the business through the entrance in the container board market. Burgo Group has 11 paper mills in Italy and 1 integrated mill in Belgium and 16 production lines
Independent Board Member
Apr 2015
YOOX NET-A-PORTER is a leading online luxury and fashion retail business. Made up of four multi-brand online stores, NET-A-PORTER, MR PORTER, THE OUTNET and YOOX, it connects customers to the world’s most coveted brands, bringing them outstanding style and impeccable service. In addition, YOOX NET-A-PORTER’s ONLINE FLAGSHIP STORES partner with world leading luxury brands to power their own e-commerce destinations. With 5.3 million customers in 180 countries, YOOX NET-A-PORTER takes a localised approach to serving its clientele around the globe through its network of offices and operations across the U.S., Europe, APAC and joint ventures with Alibaba in China and Symphony Investments in the Middle East. Across its operations is YOOX NET A PORTER’s Infinity 2030 strategy, its long-term commitment to drive a more sustainable and circular fashion system. Leveraging more than 20 years of data and insights, YOOX NET-A-PORTER continues to embrace next generation technologies including A.I., augmented reality and digital ID to evolve and elevate the customer journey. YOOX NET-A-PORTER is part of Richemont. Follow @YNAP: Instagram For more information visit ynap.com  
Independent Board Member
Apr 2015
INWIT (Italian Wireless Infrastructures) is active in the telco infrastructure business. INWIT is currently Italy’s major Tower Operator with over 23,000 infrastructure assets providing widespread coverage throughout the country, hosting the transmission equipment for all main national operators. INWIT plays a decisive role in delivering wireless mobile coverage within Italy’s territory and will follow through on this commitment in the future, adding new infrastructure to its portfolio as new, breakthrough technologies like 5G are under development. In addition to hosting telco operators on its towers, INWIT is in the process of setting up a DAS (Distributed Antenna System) network that will guarantee excellent coverage in densely populated urban areas like some of Italy’s historic centres and other public areas, as well as in large enclosed areas like shopping malls, concert halls, sporting venues and hospitals. The corporate goal is to provide optimal wireless services, ensuring the clients of all operators who rely on our infrastructure assets enjoy a stable connection to their devices. INWIT currently employs almost 300 professionals, with engineers, technicians and administrative staff that support daily corporate operations.
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