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Roberto Vedovotto is an Italian businessman, founder and CEO of
Roberto Vedovotto is an Italian businessman, founder and CEO of Kering
Kering S.A. () is a French multinational holding company specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris. It owns the brands Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Creed, Maui Jim, and Alexander McQueen.
The timber-tradin ...
Eyewear since 2014.
Biography
Vedovotto holds a bachelor degree ineconomics
Economics () is a behavioral science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services.
Economics focuses on the behaviour and interac ...
from the Bocconi University
Bocconi University or Università Bocconi (formally known in Italian language, Italian as ''Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi'' – Luigi Bocconi Commercial University) is a private university in Milan, Italy. The university is consistently ...
(1989) and a master's degree in business administration from the London Business School
London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a constituent college of the federal University of London. LBS was founded in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (Master's degree, Master's degrees in management and finance, Master of B ...
(1994). After his bachelor's degree, Vedovotto was a managing director at Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is an American multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered at 1585 Broadway in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. With offices in 42 countries and more than 80,000 employees, the firm's clients in ...
Asset Management.
In 2002, Vedovotto was named CEO of the eyewear manufacturing company Safilo
Safilo Group S.p.A. (acronym of ''Società Azionaria Fabbrica Italiana Lavorazione Occhiali'') is an Italian company that designs, produces, and distributes prescription frames, sunglasses, sports eyewear, ski goggles and helmets, and cycling he ...
, a year after it was delisted from the Milan stock exchange
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. He was hired to clean Safilo's books and overhaul its finances. Safilo was reintroduced in the Milan stock exchange
Borsa Italiana () or Borsa di Milano (), based in Milan at Mezzanotte Palace, is the Italian stock exchange. It manages and organises domestic market, regulating procedures for admission and listing of companies and intermediaries and supervi ...
in 2005. Vedovotto left Safilo in November 2006 and became managing director and chairman of European luxury goods at Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merril ...
. He was, again, CEO of Safilo from November 2008 to October 2013.
In 2013, Vedovotto joined Kering
Kering S.A. () is a French multinational holding company specializing in luxury goods, headquartered in Paris. It owns the brands Yves Saint Laurent, Gucci, Balenciaga, Bottega Veneta, Creed, Maui Jim, and Alexander McQueen.
The timber-tradin ...
to pilot the development of the luxury group's eyewear division. He launched Kering Eyewear the following year, which marked the first time a global luxury group internalized its eyewear production. In March 2015, Vedovotto became a member of Kering's executive committee. In 2017, he was joined by the luxury group Richemont
Compagnie Financière Richemont S.A., commonly known as Richemont, is a Switzerland-based luxury goods holding company founded in 1988 by South African businessman Johann Rupert. Through its various subsidiaries, Richemont produces and sells jew ...
in the shareholding of Kering Eyewear, and then acquired the eyewear brands Lindberg
Lindberg is a municipality in the district of Regen in Bavaria in Germany in the immediate neighbourhood of the larger town Zwiesel.
Location
Lindberg lies in the Danube Forest (''Donau-Wald'') region in the middle
of the Bavarian Forest on ...
in 2021 and Maui Jim
Maui Jim is an American sunglasses manufacturer based in Peoria, Illinois.
Founded in Lahaina, Hawaii, in 1980, the company designs, develops, and manufactures a wide variety of sunglasses marketed under the eponymous brand name. As of 2015, it ...
in 2022.
Distinctions
* 2003: Milano Fashion Global Summit award * Since 2015: BoF 500 * 2019: Business Visionary award by The Accessories Council (ACE Awards)Further reading
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