Fabio Capocaccia, born in Genoa, Italy, graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering.
After two years at Fairchild Semiconductor, Palo Alto, USA, on behalf of Olivetti, he held key managerial positions in major international companies in Italy in the fields of computer design (Olivetti), integrated circuit design (Società Generale Semiconduttori – SGS, now ST-Microelectronics),  computer applications to industrial process control  (Ansaldo and Selenia-Elsag).
In 1985 he was appointed Director General of Porto di Genova S.p.A., the Port’s holding company.
Director General of the Port of Genoa from 1992 to july 1994, he was appointed, by the Government, Port Commissioner in 1994 and 1995, with the target of managing and transforming the port into a new Port Authority according to the new law 84 of 1994. From 1996 to 2004 he served as Secretary General of the new Port Authority of Genoa. Under his management, the port of Genoa was restructured, revitalized and increased output from 230.000 (1993) to 1.600.000 containers (2003), developing and approving the new Master Plan (2001).
President of the Association of Italian Ports (ASSOPORTI) for one term (1994-1996).
Founder of MedCruise (1996), the Association of Mediterranean Cruise Ports and President  for two terms (1996-2002): in 6 years MedCruise grew from the 10 original founders to the 70 major Mediterranean ports.
President of Infotransport (Association for ICT in transports), Vicepresident of SOS-LOG (sustainable logistics) and Member of EIRAC (European Intermodal Research Advisory Committee of the EU).
In 2004 he was charged by the Transport Minister with founding and managing (2004-2008) RAM – Rete Autostrade Mediterranee, the new public company established for developing the Government Programme of Italian Motorways of the Sea, according to EC project PP-21: for this Programme, he participated to four important EU-funded projects (ACCESS, EastMed MoS, WestMoS and WestMed Corridors). He was also appointed Counselor to the Transport Minister from 2006 to 2008. In this period of time (2004-2008), Italian Motorways of the Sea increased their volumes from 800.000 to 1.900.000 trucks modally shifted from land to sea per year.
From 2005 he was enlisted as logistics expert by the MIUR – Ministry of University and Research for reviewing and auditing industrial research project applications.
From 2008 he is President of IIC – International Institute for Communications, a research and development institute active in Transports, Logistics, Information and Communication Technologies. In this role, he started EU funded projects, both under TEN-T calls (MoS24, airport to rail connection), and Marco Polo (ARTEMIS), and recently on behalf or Regione Liguria for MED Strategic (MedCoreNet).

In 2004, while at the Port of Genoa, he founded CISEI, the International Study Center on Italian Emigration, to capitalize the cultural heritage of emigrants leaving their country through the Port of Genoa. President of CISEI ever since, he helped setting up the first National Archive on Italian Emigration, now listing more than 3 Million names. In 2008 he was appointed by the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs as Member of the Scientific Committee of MEI, the National Emigration Museum  at Vittoriano in Rome.
 
Mr. Capocaccia is also Professor of Industrial Electronics at the University of Genoa, and has published over a hundred technical papers.

He speaks fluently major foreign languages (English, French, Spanish) and reads German.