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Domitilla Benigni
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Domitilla Benigni

CEO & COO, Elettronica – Chairman, CY4GATE

Born in Rome in 1969, she is married and has two children

In 1995, she graduated in Electronic Engineering from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’.

She is a shareholder, together with her family, of the company Elettronica SpA, where she is now Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, having previously held positions in the main corporate functions: from Strategic Planning to Business Development to Projects & Products.

The company, which is also owned by Leonardo and Thales, is an international reality with over 70 years of history in advanced electronic defence systems and today the Elt Group brand is an international reality with a multi-domain approach that also covers Cyber, Space and Biodefence.

Since 2020, she has been President of the investee company Cy4Gate, a company specialising in the design, development and marketing of Cyber Intelligence & Cyber Security solutions for governments and companies, and listed in the Star segment of the Italian Stock Exchange.

She is a founding member, together with 30 other European women key players, of the Women4Cyber Foundation, an initiative created by ECSO in 2019 and sponsored by the European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society with the aim of increasing the involvement of European women in the cyber domain.

Since 2021, she has been founder and President of the Italian Chapter of the same Foundation.

Since June 2022, she has been a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the National Cybersecurity Agency and since November of the same year, she has been a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the Centro Studi Militari Aeronautici (CESMA), a think tank of the Associazione Arma Aeronautica (AAA).