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Rodolfo De Benedetti

Chief Executive Officer and General Manager

Rodolfo De Benedetti is the CEO of both CIR (since 1993) and COFIDE-Gruppo De Benedetti (since 1995). He is also Chairman of Sorgenia and Sogefi and member of the Board of Directors of Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, Finegil, Allianz Italia and Banque Syz.

Previously he held the position of General Manager of CIR (1990-1993) and COFIDE (1989-1995). He joined COFIDE in 1988, as Director of International Business, remaining in this position for a year.

Prior to entering CIR and COFIDE, Mr De Benedetti worked for Lombard Odier (Geneva) from September 1985 to December 1986 as Assistant to the CEO, and from January 1987 to January 1988 for Shearson Lehman Brothers (New York) as an associate in the Merchant Banking Group.

Since May 2006 Rodolfo De Benedetti is a member of the European Advisory Board of the Harvard Business School and since November 2006 he is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists.

Rodolfo De Benedetti holds two university degrees, both from the University of Geneva, where he graduated in Political Economics in 1982 and in Law in 1985.