Marco Piccinini
Marco Piccinini (* 1952 in Rome ) is a former team manager at Scuderia Ferrari .
Career
Marco Piccinini studied architecture in Rome and first came into contact with motorsport during his student days when he was working for an Italian Formula 3 team. He moved to Monaco in the 1960s and began a career in banking.
In 1974 he was one of the founding members of the first Monegasque racing car manufacturer Société Monégasque de Constructions Automobiles MP . In 1975 he was promoted to director of a Monegasque bank and joined Ferrari in 1977 as a consultant .
He rose quickly under Enzo Ferrari and worked for the Italian brand in various functions until the mid-1990s. Piccinini was race director and team boss at Scuderia and negotiated the Concorde Agreement with the FIA for the racing team . After leaving Ferrari, he held many official and honorary positions. From 1988 to 2008 he was Vice President of the FIA and from 1993 to 1994 President of the Italian Automobile Association.
Piccinini is still a member of boards of directors and clubs such as the Monte Carlo Country Club . From 1997 to 2000 he was chairman of the Italian Americas Cup campaign, which only lost to Team New Zealand in the final with the yacht Luna Rossa .
In 2010, Piccinini, now a citizen of Monaco, became the Principality's ambassador to the People's Republic of China and India . In January 2011 he was appointed Finance Minister of Monaco; he held this post until his resignation in October 2012. In March 2013 it was announced that he was joining the board of directors of ABR Management as deputy chairman .
literature
- Pino Casamassima: Storia della Scuderia Ferrari Nada Editore, Vimodrome 1998, ISBN 88-7911-179-5 .
- Leonardo Acerbi: 60 Years of Ferrari Heel, Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-89880-815-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Finter Bank Zurich: Board of Directors
- ↑ The Monaco Times: Monaco's head of finance quits ( Memento of January 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (October 23, 2012)
- ↑ ABR Management News (March 22, 2013)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Piccinini, Marco |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian-Monegasque motorsport official, banker and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1952 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |