Report on corporate governance and ownership 2011 - Indesit


<strong>Report</strong> on corporate governance and ownership at 21 March 2012 on 2011 – Annex
Annex 2 – Career profiles of directors and lists of top management posts held in
other listed companies, banks, insurance and finance companies and
other large organizations
Andrea Merloni
He was born in Rome in 1967. He has been chairman of Indesit Company since 29 th April 2010 (formerly
vice-chairman since April 2008 and a member of its board of directors since 1996).
From 2005 to 2007 as a director of Indesit Company S.p.A. he was in charge of “new business opportunities”.
Within Indesit Company Group, from 2000 to 2007, he was chairman and CEO at WRAP spa, a spin-off
from Indesit Company S.p.A. formed to develop the Company’s patents and know-how in the field of
household appliance electronics.
In 1996 he bought the Benelli S.p.A. brand and relaunched it in the scooter and large motorbike
industry; he was its chairman and CEO till 2005.
From 1992 to 1996 he was chairman of Aermarche S.p.A., an air transport service company.
He is a director of Fineldo S.p.A. (Vittorio Merloni’s family holding company), Merloni MP&S srl and
Evolve S.p.A.
He is a graduate in “Political Sciences”.
Company
Alpha 67 S.p.A.
Fineldo S.p.A.
Falck Renewables S.p.A.
Posts held
Sole Director
Director
Marco Milani
Born in Milan in 1954, he graduated in engineering and became CEO of Indesit Company on 27 th July 2004.
Having joined Indesit Company in 1980, he held increasingly important posts, both industrial and
commercial, in Italy and above all abroad. In 1998 he became head of the CIS (former Soviet Republics)
and Eastern European markets, based in Moscow, till the acquisition of Stinol in 2000. Back in Italy, he
took over as COO and in March 2002 was appointed CEO at Indesit Company UK, formed as a result of
the acquisition of GDA Hotpoint, which he guided to full integration.
Company
Carraro S.p.A.
Posts held
Director
Valerio Battista
He is Prysmian S.p.A.’s Chief Executive Officer and General Manager and is at the head of the Prysmian
Group organisation. He gained 17 years experience with the Pirelli Group and headed the Energy
Cables and Systems business unit for five years, including the period 2002-2003 during which the
Group successfully completed its reorganisation plan. He graduated in Mechanical Engineering from
Florence University in 1981. He joined UnoAErre in 1983 as Head of its Technical Office. In September
1987 he joined the Operations Department in the Steel Cord division of Pirelli & C. spa Group in Figline
Valdarno. In 1997 he became Director of the Steel Cord division of Pirelli Tyre Division where he then
became Purchasing Director in 2001.
He became CEO of the Group’s Energy Cables and Systems business unit in February 2002 and CEO of
the Telecom Cables and Systems unit in December 2004.
Company
Prysmian S.p.A.
Posts held
CEO & General Manager
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