Marco Tronchetti Provera


Marco Tronchetti Provera is an Italian businessman. Chief Executive Officer of Pirelli & C. S.p.A. since 1992 and Executive Vice Chairman since 20 October 2015 and Chairman of Marco Tronchetti Provera & C. S.p.A., a holding which he controls and which indirectly holds 50% of Camfin S.p.A.. Camfin, indirectly, holds 41% of Marco Polo Industrial Holding S.p.A., the major shareholder who controls Pirelli & C. S.p.A. Pirelli was sold to ChemChina, a state-owned Chinese company in 2015, however, Tronchetti Provera was retained.

Personal life

Provera was born in Milan in 1948 and obtained a Degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Bocconi University of Milan in 1971. He entered the Pirelli Group in 1986. He married Cecilia Pirelli, daughter of company founder Leopoldo Pirelli in 1987. He took operational control of the Group in 1992. In 2001, he married Afef Jnifen, a Tunisian fashion model.

Career

He is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Mediobanca, a member of the executive committee of Confindustria and sits on the International Advisory Board of insurance company Allianz. He is also on the Steering Committee of Assonime and of Assolombarda.
Alongside his corporate roles, he is the Honorary Co-Chairman for the Italian branch of the Council for the United States and Italy and a Member of the Italian Group of the Trilateral Commission.
In the past, while maintaining his roles in the Pirelli Group, Tronchetti Provera was also Chairman of Italy’s leading financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore, a Board Member of Milan's La Scala opera house and chairman of Telecom Italia S.p.A..