Our Team
Andrea Cattaneo
Chief Executive Officer & President
Andrea Cattaneo
Chief Executive Officer & President
Proven deal maker and government advisor with specific expertise in developing economies. More than 30 years of financial experience in capital markets and commodity trading between Western and emerging countries.
Andrea holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Genoa and a postgraduate degree in Taxation Law from the University of Bologna. He is one of Zenith’s founders.
Luca Benedetto
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Luca Benedetto
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Luca joined Zenith as Finance Director of the Company’s Italian subsidiary in 2013, and was subsequently appointed to the position of Group Financial Controller. He was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company in 2017.
Luca Benedetto trained in Italy as a registered accountant with further education in IFRS accounting and consolidation at IPSOA Milan. He has more than twenty-five years of accounting, auditing and financial administration experience. He is a former Italian soldier and was deployed to Somalia as part of the Unified Task Force in Operation Restore Hope.
Andrea Cattaneo
Chief Executive Officer & President
Andrea Cattaneo
Chief Executive Officer & President
Proven deal maker and government advisor with specific expertise in developing economies. More than 30 years of financial experience in capital markets and commodity trading between Western and emerging countries.
Andrea holds an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Genoa and a postgraduate degree in Taxation Law from the University of Bologna. He is one of Zenith’s founders.
Dr. Dario E. Sodero
Non-Executive Director
Dr. Dario E. Sodero
Non-Executive Director
35 years of operational experience in North America, the Sub-Arctic, North Africa and the Middle East. Dario has served as an executive director in several TSX listed oil and gas exploration and production companies. Dario is a former Italian army officer in the Alpini Corps and holds a doctorate in Geological Sciences from the University of Turin, Italy.
Dr. José Ramón López-Portillo (UK)
Chairman
Non-Executive Director
Dr. José Ramón López-Portillo (UK)
Chairman
Non-Executive Director
An economist by background, José served as minister in the Mexican Federal Government and is a Former Independent Chairman of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) Council in Rome. José Ramón studied economics at Universidad Anahuac and has a doctorate in political science and international relations from the University of Oxford. He holds dual Mexican and British nationality.
Sergey Borovskiy
Non-Executive Director
Sergey Borovskiy
Non-Executive Director
Sergey Borovskiy has over 25 years of experience in business management in China and Hong Kong. He has lived and worked in China since 1991 and is fluent in Russian, English and Mandarin.
Sergey is CEO of Sanju Environmental Protection (Hong Kong) Limited, overseeing the international projects of controlling shareholder Sanju Group, a company specialised in energy purification and environmental protection technologies listed on the Shenzen Stock Exchange.
He is CEO and Chairman of General Transactions Inc., an oil & gas consulting, engineering, trading, seismic research and exploration services company. Sergey also serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors at Petro Chemical Solutions and South China Heavy Industries Group.
Sergey studied in both China and Russia. He holds a degree in economics.
Luca Benedetto
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Luca Benedetto
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Director
Luca joined Zenith as Finance Director of the Company’s Italian subsidiary in 2013, and was subsequently appointed to the position of Group Financial Controller. He was appointed to the position of Chief Financial Officer of the Company in 2017.
Luca Benedetto trained in Italy as a registered accountant with further education in IFRS accounting and consolidation at IPSOA Milan. He has more than twenty-five years of accounting, auditing and financial administration experience. He is a former Italian soldier and was deployed to Somalia as part of the Unified Task Force in Operation Restore Hope.