Gianfelice Rocca
| Gianfelice Rocca | |
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| Born |
2 March 1948 Milan, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater |
University of Milan Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Known for | Chairman of the Techint Group |
| Net worth | US$4.2 billion (jointly with brother, May 2017) |
| Parent(s) | Roberto Rocca |
| Relatives |
Agostino Rocca (grandfather) Paolo Rocca (brother) |
Gianfelice Rocca (born March 2, 1948) is an Italian businessman. He is chairman of the Techint Group and president of Assolombarda, the largest territorial association of the entire entrepreneurial system in Italy.
Rocca has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Milan, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School in Boston.
Rocca joined the Techint Group in 1974. In 1980, at the age of 32, he was appointed head of corporate activities in Italy, Europe and Mexico. He has been chairman of the Techint Group since 1997.
The Techint Group consists of: Tenaris, Ternium, Techint Engineering & Construction, Tenova, Tecpetrol and Humanitas. In 2014 the Group had a workforce of 58,500 people and reported revenues of 25 billion dollars.
Under Gianfelice Rocca's leadership, the Techint Group has significantly expanded the operations of the companies that report to the Milan HQ (Techint E&C, Tenova and Humanitas).
In the 1990s, in Rozzano (Milan), Rocca founded the Istituto Clinico Humanitas, today one of Europe’s most important hospitals with an international research and teaching center. The creation of the Humanitas Clinic marked the start of a new business in the Healthcare sector, which has since grown through the acquisition of a number of other important hospitals in Italy, coordinated by the Humanitas S.p.A. company. In 2010, through an agreement with the Università degli Studi di Milano, an International Medical School was instituted at the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Rozzano offering an English-language degree course in Medicine and Surgery.
Humanitas and Tenova have both become Harvard University management case studies.
Since June 2013, Rocca has been president of Assolombarda, the largest territorial association of the entire entrepreneurial system in Italy which groups about 5.100 firms located in Lombardy region and is part of Confindustria (Italian employers' organization). From May 2004 to May 2012 Gianfelice Rocca was Vice President for Education of Confindustria, the leading association of Italian industrialists. He is chairman of the Board of IIT, the Italian Institute of Technology, Member of the EIT Governing Board, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology and a member of the Scientific Committee of the “Politecnico di Milano” Foundation. Since November 2014 he is a member of the board of administration of the Bocconi University. In Italy, he is a member of the boards of Allianz, Brembo, Buzzi Unicem. At international level, he is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School, the Executive Committee of Aspen Institute and the Allianz Group Advisory Board.
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