Franca Bertagnin Benetton

Supervisory Board Member at Wendel

Franca Bertagnin Benetton is a graduate of Boston University and holds an MBA from Harvard University (1996). She is a director of Edizione Srl, the investment holding company of the Benetton family.

She started her career at Colgate Palmolive in New York (USA) as Product Manager in Global Business Development, and then held the same position in Hamburg (Germany).

She later worked for the strategy consulting firm Bain & Co in Italy until joining Benetton Srl in 1997.

Since 2003, she is CEO of her Family Office Evoluzione SpA, managing diversified investments in private and public equity.

In June 2005 she became Director of Edizione Srl. She has been a director of Benetton Srl (since 2013), Autogrill Spa (since 2017), Telepass Spa (since 2019) and Fondation Benetton (since 2019).

She currently serves on the European Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School and the international Advisory Board of Boston University.

Timeline

  • Supervisory Board Member

    Current role