Aerospace. Digital and IT. Food and coffee. But also fashion, advanced mechanics, textiles. The presidential team that today Marco Gay, designated leader of via Fanti for the four-year period 2024-2038will present the face of the productive fabric of the territory of tomorrow to the General Council of Industrialists of Turin. Less dependent on the automotive industry and from Mirafiori, more inclined to bet on the technologies of the future (from AI to the cloud and digital automation), and above all with a significantly lower age of vice presidents, to an average of 52 years.
Marco Gay digital entrepreneur, born in 1976, executive president of Zest, technology incubator (230 startups in portfolio) born from the merger of Digital Magics and Lv Venture, will be officially appointed president of the Turin Industrial Union on next July 15thsucceeding Salbelt patron Giorgio Marsiaj.
The team that Gay presents today will be able to count on some confirmations and also important news. Among the vice presidents is: Tatiana Rizzante, CEO of Reply, the first Italian “unicorn”; the former IT startup from Turin, which in just a few years has become an IT multinational with over 2.2 billion in revenues, 14 thousand employees and a stock market capitalization of 5.3 billion.
He will also be on the field in the team of the new president of the industrialists Marco Zoffson of the Italian champion, Juventus goalkeeper, and top manager of the Leonardo group, for a long time at the head of the former Finmeccanica aircraft division, the aerospace giant with 15 billion in revenues which develops innovative technologies for civil and military aircraft in Turin and Piedmont.
Gay’s team sees confirmation at the top of Marco Lavazzavice president of the family coffee company (3.1 billion in revenues), former president of the Unione Italiana Food and in his second mandate in via Fanti.
Not just multinationals with stellar turnovers that represent Turin’s three strong assets of the future: IT, Food and aerospace. Representatives of small and medium-sized enterprises also enter the control room of the Industrial Union of Turin, where vice-presidents who must be “operational” will sit. Philip Sertorius of the company, Farmaceutici Procemsa, already head of Small Industry, rightfully joins the top team; as well as Barbara Graffinopresident of the Young Entrepreneurs of Turin and CEO of Talent Garden Fondazione Agnelli.
Fashion 4.0 also makes its entrance in Via Fanti with Manuele MussoCEO of Space 2000, a Canavese company that designs, develops and distributes around ten brands (including Bomboogie and also Invicta under license) in the hi-tech logistics hub of Castellamonte.
The advanced metalworking sector will also be well represented. The names of also appear among the vice presidents Giorgia Garolaalready at the helm of the Young Entrepreneurs of Piedmont and CEO of Scam, a Turin company that operates in the field of heat exchange technology and Gabriella Macchioni Mouthformer president of Small Industry and CEO of Lamebo.
The car doesn’t disappear. Indeed, he remains on track with a “weighty” presidency which sees the confirmation of the vice-presidency of via Fanti di Alberto Dal Pozowner of Comec, specialized in precision mechanical components in pressed sheet metal for the automotive industry and already at the top of Federmeccanica.
