Dario Pardi has held executive roles in major multinational IT companies, including at Storagetek, where he served as Vice President, EMEA, at Cabletron where he was Country Manager of Italy and UK, and at leading Italian companies Nixdorf Siemens and Hewlett-Packard. At Hitachi Data Systems, he served as Vice President for the Benelux and Southern Region and later as Vice President, EMEA Global Markets, a position he held until December 2014. Since 2015, has served as Chairman of Retelit, a leading Italian data transmission and infrastructure services operator serving the IT and telecommunications markets, and as Chairman and major shareholder of the TAS Group, an international provider of software and services for banking and financial applications. Under his leadership, Retelit and TAS, both listed on the Italian Stock Exchange at the time, completed ambitious development projects, resulting in innovative organic and external growth and their acquisition by leading international investment funds.