Montezemolo enzo ferrari biography

31/8/1947

Record updated 14-Apr-08

Italian businessman, president and CEO of Ferrari, president of Maserati, and chairman of FIAT; in addition, he's also president of Italian Confindustria and of FIEG.

Born in Bologna, Marquis Luca Cordero di Montezemolo studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza, earning a law degree in 1971, and went on to Columbia University in New York to earn a master's degree in international trade law in 1973.

He drove briefly for the Lancia rally team, but upon graduating went to work for FIAT. In 1973 FIAT moved him to Ferrari, where he promptly became Enzo Ferrari's assistant and, in 1974, manager of the Scuderia. In 1975 Montezemolo was promoted out of Ferrari to be head of all FIAT racing activities, and in 1977 he advanced to become a senior manager of FIAT.

Throughout the 1980s, Montezemolo occupied a number of positions in the FIAT empire, including managing director of the Cinzano drinks company and director of the