Gianfranco Mossetto

A profile

A professional and scholar in the field of finance, having also served as a top executive and a board member in several Italian corporation and public administrations bodies, 62 years old, Italian national, with an American education and international experience.

The Academy

Professor of public finance since 1984 at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Venice, Cà Foscari, he has also been covering at this University, since 1994, the first Italian chair of art and cultural economics.
Formerly professor at the University LUISS in Rome, between 1981 and 1991, and research fellow at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, visiting professor at several foreign establishment including the New York University and the George Mason University, in Fairfax, Washington D.C..

Books and writings

He has been publishing books and scientific papers in Italy and abroad, among which: The Economics of Copying and Counterfeiting (Angeli, Milan, 2004), The Economics of Art Auctions (Angeli, Milan, 2003), L’economia del patrimonio monumentale (Angeli, Milan, 2001), Italiani senza rendite (Laterza, Rome, 1993), Aesthetics and Economics (Kluwer, Boston, 1992), L’economia delle città d’arte (Etas, Milan, 1992), Lezioni di scienza delle finanze (Giappichelli, Turin, 1991), La formazione del prezzo nell’impresa pubblica (Marsilio, Venice, 1984).

The professional experience

Since 1970, he has been acting as a financial and economic advisor of a large number of Italian and foreign corporations, including, during the Nineties: Bell South International and Snam, Ericsson, Teleco, Olivetti, and, formerly, among others: ENI (oil and gas), Finsider (steel), Breda (railroad materials), Alluminio Italia (metallurgy), Stet (telecommunications).
He also served as CEO and Vice-Chairman of Sip (the National Italian Telecom) during the Eighties, and as a Chairman of Hermes, the National consortium for the fibre optical networking of the Italian telecommunications established by Italtel, Sirti, Alcatel, Ericsson, and others during the Nineties. In this period he also chaired the telecom company in the Olivetti Group, Olinet.
On the side of public administration he was an advisor to a number of Italian Ministries and other bodies, like the Ministry of the Environment and that for Telecommunications in the Nineties, and, formerly, the Ministries for Budget, for the State Industries, for the Regions, besides several regional and local authorities. He has also been specifically acting as a public officer, serving as counsellor for culture of the city of Venice from 1993 to 1997, and as Vice-Chairman of the Biennale di Venezia from 1993 to 2001. He was also a member of the Board of the Fondazione per la Cassa di Risparmio di Venezia.
He has been an associate with Vitale & Borghesi and lately with Banca Leonardo; then, since 2000, he served as CEO for the Corporate Finance at Gallo & Co., Meliorbanca Group, until 2002. As a merchant banker he also acted as Chairman of Udinese Calcio, an Italian A League soccer team, in order to reorganize the management of the company in the period between 1999 and 2000.
Since 2003 he is the majority shareholder and serves as Chairman and President of Estcapital - SGR S.p.A., an Italian investment banking and fund management company (real estate and private equity funds).


Details:

Office: Estcapital – SGR Spa
Via Carlo Leoni n. 7
35139 Padova PD
Italy

Ph. 011 39 049 657884
Fax 011 39 049 8787100
Cell 011 39 348 35 28 104

e-mail: gm@estcapital.it