Flavio Cattaneo (born 27 June 1963) is an Italian manager, non-executive vice president of Italo - Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, the first private company operating high-speed trains in Europe, and member of the board of Assicurazioni Generali.

[2] From 2007 to 2011, Cattaneo was also chairman of the Brazilian subsidiary TERNA Partecipaçoes, a private electricity grid operator.

From March 2016 to July 2017 Cattaneo held the title of CEO of Telecom Italia, replacing the resigning Marco Patuano.

Cattaneo's responsibilities at Telecom Italia were related to the overall management of the society and the group, being in charge of conceiving and implementing strategic, financial, and industrial plans.

The results of this plan were visible in the second and third quarters of 2016, when Telecom Italia registered results in the domestic market not equalled since 2007:[7] +1,4% of consolidated returns, +8,5% of the group's Ebitda, +1% of domestic business unit revenue, and an overall return of €1 billion (vs €367 million gained in the same period of 2015).

[8] In February 2018, Cattaneo finalized the sale of Italo to GIP – Global Infrastructure Partners (an American fund that focuses its investments on three main sectors: energy, transportation and water/waste) for an enterprise value of €2.4 billion,[9] reinvesting in the company, and remaining a shareholder.

In 2010 he was nominated Best Italian Manager in the energy sector; in 2011, Man of the Year by the newspaper Staffetta Quotidiana; in 2016 Manager of the Year by magazine Milano-Finanza's survey, highlighting the improvement made in Telecom Italia Group from an industrial point of view;[14][15] and the Lombard Elite list for having improved Italy's competitiveness.