Member of the Board of Directors of Prysmian since 2014, in May 2023 he was designated as next Group CEO candidate (effective as from the 2024 annual general meeting) by Prysmian board of directors. Prior to his appointment as Chief Operating Officer Prysmian in February 2021, he was the CEO of Prysmian North America. Starting his career in the Pirelli Group in 1987 he held various positions in R&D and Operations and in 2002, he was appointed as the Pirelli Group Operations Director for Power Cables and Telecom Cables and from 2005, the CEO of Prysmian UK.
More recently, he was the CEO of Prysmian North America from June 2018 to February 2021. Battaini graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano has an MBA from SDA Bocconi.