The knight of the Giovanni Punzo, founder and president of CIS for thirty years - Interporto Campano. Born in 1937 in Naples, in 1960, together with the brother Pasquale, founded the Punzo brothers and later the Puntex Spa. In 1987 he was among the Neapolitan entrepreneurs who promoted the CIS, which became the main center of B2B commercial distribution in Italy of which he was president until 2017. In 1987 he was also one of the promoters of the CISFI Spa, a financial company of which it became in 2015 president, with the aim of promoting and developing new projects in logistics and commercial distribution. Through CISFI he created Interporto Campano Spa, concessionaire of the Campania Region for the design, construction and management of the Nola Freight Village, a structure intermodal logistics of international importance. Among others significant initiatives undertaken, Punzo was among the founders of Banca Popolare di Sviluppo, established in July 2001, with 2,250 members, a capital of 46.5 million euros and seven branches in Campania and in 2007 he was one of the founders of NTV Spa, the railway transport company with high-speed trains "Italo" high-speed train. He also held the position as president of TIN Spa, the terminal management company intermodal network of Nola, and in ISC Spa, one of the main private freight railways in Italy.

In a note, the CIS - Interporto "district" has wanted to remember him by recognizing him the great merit of having had a visionary foresight and thank him for dedicating himself tirelessly to it throughout his life. Giovanni Punzo - yes underlines - was "an entrepreneur who dedicated his life to build and innovate, leaving us as a "legacy" the Nola Business Park, concrete testimony of his vision avant-garde".