Board of Directors

Eugenio Razelli graduated in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa.

He has held positions of increasing responsibility in Comind (General Manager of Stars and Politecna) and in Magneti Marelli. He held many positions in the Fiat Group Components Sector until becoming President of Engine Control Systems in 1991. He moved to Pirelli Cables in 1993 as Vice President Manufacturing and later became President & CEO of Pirelli Cable North America. 
He was then Senior Executive Vice President first of the Telecom division and then of the Energy division. From 2001 to 2003 he was President & CEO of Fiamm, a leading company in the battery market. From May 2003 to March 2005, he was Senior Vice President of Business Development at Fiat S.p.A. in charge of Mergers & Acquisitions, Innovation and ICT strategies. From April 2005 to June 2015, he was CEO and General Manager of Magneti Marelli. 
Today he is Industrial Partner of F.S.I. (Fondo Strategico Italiano) and Capvis, Chairman of the Board of Directors of SAFILO GROUP S.p.A. since April 26, 2017, and is also Vice Chairman of Texa S.p.A. From 2005 to 2011, he was President of ANFIA and from 2006 to 2011 a member of the Board of Confindustria.

Graduated with honors in business administration from Bocconi University in Milan.

He began his career in 1998 at UBS Investment Bank in London. He then joined PAI Partners in 2004 where, as a partner, he actively participated in investment transactions worth more than €700 million. During his career, Ferraresi became a board member of private and listed companies. Since January 2018, he has been founder and CEO of The Equity Club, a private equity initiative in the form of club deals, promoted together with Mediobanca and composed of more than 90 investors, among them some of the most prominent families in Italy.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Bocconi Commercial University, while simultaneously taking courses in finance at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences and business administration and marketing at the University of California at Berkeley. He completed the CEGA Master’s degree and the MBA in Business Administration with honors, at the Bocconi University, gaining experience in business, finance and real estate. He began his career in Server Consulting and PwC, later moving to relevant roles in the RE Group holding company and DGPA SGR, where he led the real estate division. He was CEO of the Basso Group and has held positions in real estate funds and companies in the chemical, extraordinary operations, ESG and luxury automotive sectors. He is currently a partner and chairman of Unicol, Really, and VisioNext, as well as a director of several companies and a partner in DGPA & Co.

He graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Turin in the mid-1980s and served as CEO of Magneti Marelli. Since 2009 he has been on the board of ART Spa.

Born in 1946, he began working in the Fiat Group in the Foundry Division in the 1960s. After graduation, he joined the Human Resources area of Fiat SpA and in the 1980s he became director of the Teksid Foundry Division. At the end of the 1980s he joined Magneti Marelli where he later served as CEO for 10 years. From 2004 to 2006 he served as CEO of Fiat Powertrain Technologies and Purchasing Coordination of the Fiat Group. Since 2009 he has been involved in the growth and development of ART.

Gianmarco Gandolfi graduated in Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and attended an Executive Program at Columbia University in New York.

Since September 2023 he has served as a Director and Partner of Alto Partners, in charge of origination, negotiation of investment transactions, as well as portfolio management, development and monitoring. Previously, he was Co-Founder and Senior Partner of Equity Club (2018-2023), a club deal promoted by Mediobanca. His career includes significant experience in banking and industry: he was Managing Director in Banca Leonardo’s Investment Banking division and Vice-President in Lazard & Co, working with major clients such as Exor, Generali, Pirelli, Prada, Telecom, ENEL, ENI, Edison, and Banca Intesa. Subsequently, he worked for the Percassi Group, initially as CFO from 2009 to 2012 and then as President and Managing Director of the U.S. operations from 2013 to 2017.

Thomas Richter graduated with honors in 2003 in industrial engineering for electronics and IT from the University of Applied Sciences in Kempten.

He started his career by joining Audi where he developed IT systems to configure and check vehicle electronics during manufacturing and managed the local roll-out in Germany, China, and Spain. He gained first managerial experience, being responsible for monitoring and optimizing electronics related manufacturing processes. He moved then to Italy to lead the electrics and electronics development at Lamborghini and subsequently headed the Audi UI/UX teams in Germany and China. In 2021, he transitioned to the agricultural machinery sector, serving at AGCO as director for cabin electronics and machinery diagnostics and later as vice president for electrics and electronics engineering, overseeing the development of on-board electronics for AGCO´s full machinery portfolio. In 2025, he joined ART to support the company’s growth and diversification plans.