Antonella Sanguineti has more than twenty years of experience in Telecommunications, standing as senior expert in Optical, IP transmission, Security, Cloud and Product Management. 

She started her career in R&D System & Technology at Italtel, Pirelli Optical System and Cisco, but spent most of her career in the Strategic Product Management area, at Ericsson, dealing with Optical, Fronthaul, Microwave and IP telecommunications networks since 2005.   

She joined Sparkle in 2021, with the role of Head of Marketing & Product Management for the wholesale and enterprise business. Her contribution to Sparkle is multifold: she drives the company’s portfolio transformation to an enterprise business with the introduction of innovative technology, in the connectivity, security and cloud segments, with dedicated focus on post quantum technologies. She is also an active promoter of the company as a contributor to MEF’s development of standardization for the telco ecosystem and she’s actively engaged as co-chair of the Integrated Trust Network (ITN) initiative and the application of blockchain and identity management in the context of automation and Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO). 

She was selected among the Capacity 20 Women to Watch in 2023.