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John Elkann
John Philip Jacob Elkann is an American-born Italian industrialist. In 1997, he became the chosen heir of his maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, following the death of Gianni's nephew Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, and since 2004 has been leading the Agnelli family, an Italian multi-industry business dynasty. The Agnelli family has been described in media as comparable to the Kennedy family in terms…
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business · Italian businessman (born 1976) · entrepreneur · businessperson · also John Elkann, John Philip Jacob Elkann, John Jacob Philip Elkann, Elkann
Born 1 April 1976 · Q284011
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2026· 3 entries
Public attention spiked: 4,837 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.7× the usual 628, with 0 article edits.
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Yahoo! Sports: What John Elkann thinks about the recent developments at Juventus
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2025· 1 entry
autoevolution: John Elkann Will Do Community Service To Settle Tax Fraud Case Over Grandma's Inheritance
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2023· 2 entries
“If we compare the company in 2003 and today”
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After a fifty-year period of absence as a manufacturer and won the centenary edition of the race, repeating the victory in two subsequent years
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2021· 3 entries
Elkann oversaw the merger between Fiat Chrysler and the PSA Group
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Forbes estimated his net worth to be around US$2 billion
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Career landmark: chairperson (2021).
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2019· 2 entries
“s fourth largest OEM by volume and third largest by revenues, and catch up on electric cars, as well as autonomous vehicles. In May 2019, he tried to also enlist Renault. In December 2019, it was announced that FCA and Peugeot had reached an agreement to merge. In July 2020, he and FCA”
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Elkann announced he would be trying to merge FCA with Peugeot S
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2018· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (2018).
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2015· 1 entry
Elkann acquired the insurer company PartnerRe and took part in Ferrari’s debut as a listed company in stock exchange in Wall Street
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2014· 1 entry
Career landmark: president (2014–2021).
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2013· 2 entries
Elkann participated in the Transpac Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu where he and Soldini ranked second
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“There is an alternative to financial investors and professional investment managers, and that”
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2012· 1 entry
Elkann attended the annual meeting of the Bilderberg Group in Chantilly, Virginia
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2011· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
Elkann supported his cousin Andrea Agnelli's bid to become chairman of Juventus
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Career landmark: president (2010–2014).
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2008· 1 entry
Elkann was seen as "the great unknown", and he replaced 83-year-old Gabetti as the head of IFIL, which managed a portfolio worth eight billion euros
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2004· 2 entries
Married Donna Lavinia Borromeo (born Lavinia Ida Borromeo-Arese on 19 March 1977 in Milan), a member of the prominent Italian aristocratic family the House of Borromeo
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Career landmark: vice president (2004–2010).
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2003· 3 entries
And today's we see that revenues go from 22 billion to 130 in the first nine months of 2022 alone; there were 22 car models produced then, which employed 49,000 people, for 4 brands: today 280,000 people produce over 100
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Which was followed by that of Elkann's great-uncle Umberto Agnelli in 2004, Elkann became vice-chairman of Fiat and vice-chairman of Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz
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Elkann joined IFIL, which later became Exor, where he was in charge of control and development, and was in particular responsible for supervising Rinascente and Alpitour
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2000· 1 entry
After graduating in engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin, he joined General Electric's Corporate Audit program
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1997· 1 entry
Became the chosen heir of his maternal grandfather Gianni Agnelli, following the death of Gianni's nephew Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, and since 2004 has been leading the Agnelli family, an Italian multi-industry busines
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1976· 1 entry
Born 1976-04-01.
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1943· 1 entry
And to the board of Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz (now Giovanni Agnelli B
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