Aldo Miccio | |
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28th Mayor of Nelson | |
In office 2010–2013 |
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Preceded by | Kerry Marshall |
Succeeded by | Rachel Reese |
Personal details | |
Born |
Cataldo Miccio c.1971 Nelson, New Zealand |
Alma mater | University of Canterbury |
Cataldo (Aldo) Miccio (born c.1971) is a New Zealand former local-body politician. He was the Mayor of Nelson for one term from 2010 to 2013.
Miccio is married to Kimberley, a former Sydney hotel reservations sales manager, and has three children. He was born in Nelson in 1971, lived in Tahunanui, is a second generation Nelsonian, and was educated at St Joseph's primary school and Nelson College. He graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (marketing and management). His parents are Nelson-born Cristina Romano and Italian-born Raffaele Miccio, a fish and chip shop owner, restaurateur and market gardener. His maternal grandfather, Cataldo Romano, migrated to Nelson from Massa Lubrence, Italy in the 1920s. Massa Lubrence is the same place where Miccio's father was born.
Miccio speaks the Naples dialect.
In 2016 Miccio relocated to the Central Coast in Sydney, Australia with his family.
In 1993 Miccio was chief representative officer in China for a multinational textile company. and in 1994 became in inaugural member of the New Zealand Shanghai business forum.
Miccio moved to Australia and in 1995 became General Manager of the clothing division an Australian giftware company. In 1998 he began his own clothing and giftware company, Bissi, which now has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Xiamen, China. In 2009 he sold Bissi to a Chinese company, but remains a Director. He met and married his wife while working in Australia.
He is also a Director of AAPI Limited, and his cousin Anthony Romano is the other Director of the company.
Miccio is beneficiary of the April Trust.
Miccio was a trustee of the Summit Nelson Tasman Rescue Helicopter until 2016, a founding member of the Nelson Bays Community Foundation, (Nelson's first community endowments trust), Trustee and Deputy Chair of Nelson Tasman Hospice.
From August 2012 – July 2014 Miccio was Chairman and Co-Director of NZ Inc Shop, an entity offering exporters of New Zealand-made products the opportunity to sell their goods to China.