Pietro Salini
Webuild CEO
Pietro Salini has been the Chief Executive Officer of Webuild S.p.A. since July 2012; He is also the Chief Executive Officer of Salini SpA, a member of the Executive Council of Assonime, of the General Council and Steering Committee of Confindustria, and of the Board of Directors of Ispi (Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale).
Born in Rome in 1958, after graduating in 1985 in Economics and Business Administration from La Sapienza University of Rome, he began his career in the infrastructure sector, working for the family company Salini Costruttori SpA, becoming in 1994 its Chief Executive Officer.
In 2013, he was appointed the "Cavaliere del Lavoro" prestigious title, and in 2022 he earned an honorary degree from the University of Genoa in “Civil Engineering”, and one in "Humane Letters" from the University of Addis Ababa in Ethiopia.
The Group, with a history of 120 years, since Pietro Salini has led it has transformed from a family company into an international large infrastructure player, through a decade-long internal development and acquisition journey. In 2020, a final milestone brought to life Webuild as we know it, with the integration of Astaldi and the entrance of CDP Equity and of the main Italian financial institutions as shareholders of the Group.
Webuild is a premium company proudly representing the "Made in Italy" concept, and the leading company in the water sector. It closed 2023 with a €10 billion turnover and an order backlog of €64 billion, with a presence in 50 countries - from Australia to North America, from Europe to the Middle East - and 87 thousand employees and a supply chain of 19,400 companies.
Salini is a passionate art collector and firmly believes that beauty and usefulness must be both present in infrastructures, creating value for communities already from when works begin. Among the most well-known projects of the Group there's the Expansion of the Panama Canal; the Lake Mead Third Intake hydraulic project near Las Vegas, in the United States; the Airport Line in Perth, Australia; the two Bridges over the Bosphorous, and the Bridge over the Danube River in Braila, in Romania; and some of the largest African dams, among which the Gibe system in Ethiopia. Projects under construction include the Brenner Base Tunnel; Line 4 of Milan's metro, and Line C of Rome's metro; the Terzo Valico dei Giovi Genoa Junction One Project, in Italy; the high-speed railway lines in Italy, and the high-capacity ones between Naples and Bari, and between Palermo-Catania-Messina; the North East Link in Melbourne, in Australia; and the Trojena mega project in the futuristic Arab region of NEOM.