Andrea Sivini has spent more than 25 years on the vendor side of infrastructure projects. ABB. Siemens. Schneider Electric. Wind farms in Italy. Solar farms in southern Italy. A three-year substation project in Uganda. Data centers across Poland, Israel and the rest of Central and Eastern Europe. And in 2024 he crossed the table.

He is now Country Manager for Italy at MICIM, a UK company building critical infrastructure for data center and renewable energy customers across Europe and beyond. This conversation is about what that shift looks like from the inside, and where he believes the industry is heading.

Andrea is one of those guests who has clearly thought deeply about leadership, clearly as a management concept and also as a practical discipline shaped by years of working with multicultural teams under serious pressure. His views on talent retention are particularly worth sitting with. And his vision for integrated renewable and data center infrastructure is already in motion.

In this episode:

• The three projects that defined his career including three years in Uganda
• What managing cross-continental teams across cultures actually requires
• The difference between attracting talent and retaining it
• Why data centers are more complex than renewables and what that means for leaders
• Italy as a Mediterranean gateway to North Africa and the Middle East
• The integrated data center, solar and battery storage vision he is already working on
• Why universities are the most underused talent pipeline in the industry

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