Marco Alverà is the co-founder of Zhero and TES (Tree Energy Solutions) where he also serves as CEO.
A native of Venice, Italy, Alverà was born in New York in 1975 and has spent his career championing fairness and driving change in the energy industry.
Beginning his working life at Goldman Sachs’ London office in 1997, Alverà co-founded Italy’s first broadband company, Netesi, in the year 2000. In 2002, he joined Italian energy company Enel as Director of Group Corporate Strategy, moving on to serve as CFO with Wind in 2004.
From 2005, he spent 12 years with energy multinational Eni, moving from Head of Gas Supply and Portfolio Development to CEO of Eni Trading and Shipping to Chief of Retail Market Gas and Power. Alverà was CEO at Italian energy infrastructure company, Snam, from 2016 to 2022.
Alongside his day job, Alverà dedicates time to a range of cultural and philanthropic institutions. He is a member of the executive board and steering committee of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, an esteemed cultural organization in Venice.
In 2019, with his brother Giorgio and their cousins, Alverà co-founded the non-profit Fondazione Kenta. This cross-disciplinary creative organization is named in memory of their late grandmother, Kenta Alverà, who was a writer, art historian, and women’s rights activist.
He also serves as the non-executive chief officer and chair of the finance committee at S&P Global, which specializes in financial information and analysis, as well as a board member at the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI), a visiting fellow at the University of Oxford, and vice president of Fondazione Snam which tackles issues like energy poverty and seeks to drive a just transition.
He holds a degree in philosophy and economics from the London School of Economics.
