Giuseppe Arena

WORK HISTORY

ABOUT GIUSEPPE ARENA

Giuseppe Arena is a highly qualified manager in the railway industry with more that 30 years of experience in the field. He covered many important roles in Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane (FS, the Italian State’ Railways) and he gave key contributions to the start-up of numerous railway companies, both for passengers and freight transportation – being defined “a railway man through and through” by the magazine Logistics (03/2006). Over the years, Arena has also worked as a consultant for railway companies and tour operators, most prominently: • Consultant and director of the start-up of Cisalpino AG, a joint venture between Trenitalia, SBB and BLS (international trains Italy- Switzerland); • Consultant for TOROC 2006 (the Organising Committee for the XX Winter Olympics Torino 2006) for the optimization of mobility during the Olympics; • Consultant and senior manager in charge for the start-up of numerous freight railway company GTS Rail, BLS Italia, GMC, HUPAC SpA and Monferail S.r.l (now Captrain S.r.l. and part of the SNCF group); • Responsible Executive consultant for the tour operators Alpitur and Transalpino, and the touristic railway operator Georgh GmbH (Germany); In his career, Giuseppe Arena won numerous prices, such as the prestigious Bruno Leoni Award (2011). Apart from his exposition to the Italian and international press, his story is featured in ‘Primi nonostante tutto’ (by M. Castelli, 2012) and ‘CambiaItalia’ (by A. Sanvito, 2014)