Son of Michel Carboni and Germaine de Michau. Carboni grew up in Nice where he attended the Lycée Masséna. In 1977 he graduated from ESCP Europebusiness school in Paris.
Career
Carboni began his career in French diplomacy as advisor to the Commercial Counsellor of the French Embassy in Oslo and then as Trade attaché at French Embassy of Athens. He came back in France to work at Nestlé's marketing department, before joining in 1979 the SAPAR subsidiary of French public group EDF-GDF. In SAPAR subsidiary, Carboni is CFO of French nuclear power stations, including Creys-Malville power plant. Then he joined GDF's Finance department as Chief of the Treasury and of the Trading room. In collaboration with CFO Robert Delbos, they modernized EDF-GDF's financial functioning, managed the second biggest Swaps portfolio right after the World Bank and be pioneers in term of raising funds. In 1997, Carboni took over as CEO of COFATHEC Italy and later CEO of COFATHEC group today renamed ENGIE Cofely and between 2001-03 he is the Delegate General of the e-compagnie. He came back in 2004 at GDF's Finance department to manage the purchase of Romanian group DistriGaz Sud. Then he was appointed CFO of CNIEG to restructure IEG pension fund. Between 2005-07 he is CFO and CEO of Gaz de France CEE in charge of subsidiaries as Égáz-Dégáz, DistriGaz, etc. After the merger of Gaz de France and Suez in 2008, GDF Suez was born and Carboni became CEO of GDF Suez Italy, today known as ENGIE Italy. This Business Unit gathers power plants, gas networks, storage centres and renewable energy. Between 2010-12 Carboni was in charge of the DSI : GDF Suez's IT departemnt with the mission to pool IT services and to create ENGIE IT with a launch capital of €45 million. In 2013, ENGIE IT was the major IT subsidiary of European continent with a turnover of €600 million and 2,700 employees. Carboni is the CEO of ENGIE IT between 2012-15. In 2016, Carboni is a Special Advisor of Isabelle Kocher and Gérard Mestrallet of ENGIE group. In 2018, he is co-founder of a business and strategic consulting firm : EFTHIA CONSULTING.
