Marco De Fazio

Marco
De Fazio

Managing Director Electronics Division

Marco De Fazio is the Managing Director of the Electronics Division of Leonardo SpA. 

He has been also appointed as member of the BoD of Orizzonte Sistemi Navali S.p.A, member of the BoD of Leonardo UK Ltd and member of the BoD of Elettronica S.p.A.

Previously, within the same Division, he held the role of Managing Director of the Electronics ITA Business Unit and Managing Director of the Defence Systems Business Unit.

He served as Chairman of the BoD of Larimart S.p.A., Chairman of the BoD of Vitrociset S.p.A., President of Consorzio Sistema Soldato Sicuro and member of the BoD of Leonardo Electronics US Inc.
He was also member of the BoD of EUROSYSNAV SAS - a joint venture between Finmeccanica and DCNS for the management of the Combat Systems of the French Italian Horizon Frigates.

He achieved a degree in Electronic Engineering in 1991 at the University of Naples Federico II. He joined Alenia in 1992 as a Radar System Analyst Engineer and he held several positions in the Engineering and Program Management function. He developed his professional experience by managing the D&D of Naval and Air Defence Systems, mainly radars.  In 2009 he was appointed as SVP of the Radar and Systems Engineering of the Selex Sistemi Integrati S.p.a. and afterwards System Engineering Director of the Land and Naval System Division of Selex-ES SpA. From 2013 to 2017 he worked as Senior Vice President of Naval & Air Defence Systems Line of Business for the Land and Naval Systems Division and he managed in this role large naval international program.
He managed in the same period large modernization programs for domestic (Italian “Legge Navale”) and international markets, as System Integrator for the Combat System. From 2017 to 2019 he has been the Deputy Managing Director of Airborne & Space Systems Division of Leonardo S.p.A.

He was Co-Chair at the 19th European Radar Conference (EuRAD 2022).