Entrepreneur, born in Rome in 1940, graduated in Electronic Engineering from La Sapienza University in Rome.

In 1966, he joined IBM Italy and in 1983 left IBM EMEA (based in Paris) where he was responsible for the company's development in Europe, Africa and the Middle East and founded COS/ISI Italsistemi per l'Informatica (now Almaviva) to implement IT and telecommunications services.

He is currently majority shareholder and Chairman of Almaviva S.p.A.

In the Confindustria system, Alberto Tripi has been President of Anasin (ICT), Ferdercomin and Confindustria Innovative and Technological Services, as well as a Member of the UNICE Services Commission (European Confindustria). He is currently a member of the Confindustria President's Committee where he is Special Advisor for Artificial Intelligence and Head of ICT Studies and Strategies at Anitec-Assinform.

He was a member of IRI's Board of Directors from 1997 for five years until its liquidation.

He participates in the Leonardo Committee and is a member of the Council for Relations between Italy and the United States.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Rome Technopole Foundation. He is also a partner and member of the General Council of ASPHI Onlus, a Foundation for the integration of the disabled through the use of ICT technology, and a member of the Faculty Council of the SPES Academy 'Carlo Azeglio Ciampi' of the AISES Foundation.