As he foretold, the new president of Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi, presented Thursday 30 April the new team with which he will lead the organization of industrialists during his tenure in the logic of change and discontinuities that marked his election.
The appointments concerned mainly the vice-presidencies, even if the problem of the general manager has not yet been addressed, a role now held by Marcella Panucci who however she fought against throughout the recent presidential campaign and who certainly does not enjoy Bonomi's trust.
Among the vice-presidencies there are many news and reflect the regained weight that the so-called new industrial triangle will have, ie Milan and Lombardy, the Northeast – with Vicenza, Padua, Treviso and Pordenone on the shields – and Emilia with their pocket-sized and highly internationalized multinationals.
The appointments are an expression of the new territories, but Bonomi wisely took into account the professionalism of the past management, reconfirming as vice president an entrepreneur highly esteemed by all such as the outgoing vice president, Maurizio Stirpe, who was in charge of trade union relations and who has a beautiful car components company in the province of Frosinone, in Lazio, and 12 factories around the world.
As for the other names, the team includes ten vice presidents: Barbara Beltrame has received the internationalization mandate; Giovanni Brugnoli that of human capital; Francesco De Santis, with responsibility for Research and Development; Luigi Gubitosi, with delegation to Digital. And again: Alberto Marenghi, delegation to Organization, Development and Associative Marketing; Maurizio Marchesini, delegation to Supply Chains and Medium Enterprises; Natale Mazzuca, delegation to the Economy of the Sea and the South; Emanuele Orsini, delegation to Credit, Finance and Taxation; Maria Cristina Piovesana, delegation to Environment and Sustainability; and finally Maurizio Stirpe, with responsibility for Labor and Industrial Relations. To these components are added the 3 vice presidents by right: Carlo Robiglio, president of Piccola Industria; Alessio Rossi, president of the Young Entrepreneurs; Vito Grassi, president of the Council of Regional Representations.
The meeting of the Confindustria General Council was held remotely, in compliance with the new anti-Coranavirus rules, but saw the physical presence in the Viale dell'Astronomia headquarters in Rome of the new president, Bonomi, of his predecessor, the outgoing president Vincenzo Boccia, and of the General Manager Marcella Panucci.
As it regards instead the program of the new presidency, Bonomi will present it at the general assembly of Confindustria on May 20, even if, barring sudden lightening, the assembly will hardly be public and will be able, as in previous years, to take place at the Auditorium della Musica in Rome. For sure though the new program will be highly innovative, will cultivate entrepreneurial pride and will insist on the independence of Confindustria from politics, without any reverential fear and without any subjection but in a profoundly reformist, pro-European and above all anti-populist logic.
The appointments of April 30 will be the antechamber of the new course.
(Last update: 13.00 pm on 30 April)
