Rodolfo De Benedetti

Rodolfo De Benedetti (Turin, 1961) has been the Chairman of CIR since April 2013.

The CIR group, of which it is the controlling shareholder together with the brothers Marco and Edoardo, operates in particular in healthcare (KOS) and in auto components (Sogefi). Within the group, he is also a director of Sogefi.

Previously, he was CEO of CIR since 1993 and of COFIDE since 1995. He joined COFIDE in 1988 as Director of International Affairs and subsequently held the position of General Manager. In 1990 he also became General Manager of CIR.

Before his assignments in CIR And COFIDE, Rodolfo De Benedetti has collaborated from September 1985 to December 1986 with Lombard Today, one of the main groups from private banking Swiss with site to Geneva, in quality from Assistant of the Administrator Delegate, And from January 1987 to January 1988 with the investment bank Shearson Lehman Brothers (New York) like Associate In the Merchant Banking Group.

He was a shareholder and adviser from the administration of Decalia SA, society international from investment management made up In 2014.

He is an adviser from the administration from Aon Italy, a society active in consulting of the risks and in intermediation insurance and reinsurance, and an adviser from the administration from October.

He is also a member of ERT (European Round Table for Industry), a forum that brings together over 50 of the main European companies from various sectors, and president of the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School.

Rodolfo De Benedetti completed his studies in Geneva, where he graduated in 1982 in Political Economy and in 1985 in Law.