Marco Piccinini


Marco Piccinini is a Monegasque sport personality, businessman, and politician.

Personal

Piccinini's father Arnaldo was a pioneer in the Italian electronic industry. In the 1950s he founded an industrial group which included innovative brands such as VOXSON and VIDEOCOLOR. At the end of the 1960s, due to Arnaldo's declining health, the family disposed of their interests in the various industrial activities and decided to move to Monaco where, after his father's death, Marco focused on his two main interests – finance and motor racing.
Marco studied architecture in Rome, where he also began his involvement in motor racing by cooperating with a Formula 3 constructor and racing team ‘‘De Sanctis’’. He also received training in the Techniques of International Negotiations at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.
In 1997 married Marie-Ahlem and they have a daughter.

Institutional

In this capacity he focused particularly on:
- restoring a balanced budget, generating a cash surplus in 2012;

- Introducing new legislations and process to ensure compliance of Monaco with modern standards in the field of international tax cooperation and anti-money laundering ;

- reducing the risk profile of the Monaco National Reserve Fund while preserving its profitability.
Société Monégasque de Constructions Automobiles MP
  • 1974 - co-founded the first Monegasque racing car manufacturer - Société Monégasque de Constructions Automobiles MP - which produced a few Formula 3 single seaters.
Ferrari
  • 1977 - appointed by Enzo Ferrari as his representative for Formula 1 matters and shortly afterward appointed as the ‘‘Direttore Sportivo’’ of the Ferrari Team.
  • 1978-1988, Motor Sport Director of Ferrari and Team Principal of the Formula 1 Team. In this capacity he was one of the architects of the ‘‘Concorde Agreement’’, the charter governing regulatory as well as financial aspects of the Formula 1 World Championship.
  • From 1983 until 2016, Member of the Board of Directors of Ferrari SpA.
CSAI - Commissione Sportiva Automobilistica Italiana
  • 1993-1994, President of CSAI, the Italian Motor Sport commission, and elected in 1994 as a Vice President of FIA, the international Motor Sport Governing Body.
Prada Challenge for America’s Cup
  • 1997-2000, Executive Deputy Chairman and Challenge Representative of the PRADA Team during the America’s Cup XXX. Luna Rossa won the Louis Vuitton Cup and became the finalist against Team New Zealand.
  • Member of the Board of ACCA ;
  • Chairman of the marketing Committee of ACCA;
  • Executive Chairman of the Challenger of Record Management for America’s Cup XXXI, the organiser of the Challenger Selection Series.
FOA – Formula One Administration
FIA – Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile
  • 1998-2008 Deputy President of FIA, chaired the World Motor Sport Council, the executive body which regulates all motor sport disciplines worldwide. Piccinini was serving out his third term as Deputy President but left his post a year early to focus on other professional commitments.

    Monaco Sporting Associations

  • 1981-2010 member of the Board of Directors of ', the organiser of the Monaco Grand Prix and Monte-Carlo Rally.
  • 1999-2010, member of the Executive Committee of the ' Also a member of the Constitution Committee of .
  • 1999-2010, member of the Committee of ' - the organiser of the Tennis Masters Series Monte Carlo ATP 1000.
  • 2003-2009, member of the Board of Directors of , several times winner of the French Premier League and finalist of the 2004 UEFA Champion’s League.

    Finance

Société de Crédit et de Banque de Monaco
  • 1975–1989, member of the Board of Directors of Société de Crédit et de Banque de Monaco .
Société d'Etudes de Participations et de Courtages
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  • 1981-2010, member of the Board of Directors of Crédit Mobilier de Monaco.
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  • 2006-2010, member of the Board of Directors of Compagnie Monégasque de Banque: the international private banking subsidiary of Mediobanca.
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  • From 1989 until 2015, member of the Board of Directors of this medium size Swiss banking group, specialized in private banking and asset/funds management.
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  • From 1998 until 2009, member of the Board of Directors of SBM, the largest Monegasque company, listed on the Paris stock exchange. SBM is the main resort and luxury hotel operator of the Principality of Monaco, including the Hotel de Paris, Hotel Hermitage, Les Casinos de Monte-Carlo, the Monte-Carlo Sporting Club etc. Also served as chairman of the Human Resources Committee of the Board.
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  • From 2006 until 2010, a member of the Board of Directors of the Group, one of the world’s leading producers of luxury furnishing under three principal brands, Poltrona Frau, Cassina, Cappellini.
Charme Capital Partners SGR
  • From 2007 until 2016, independent Director of Charme Partners SGR, an international Private Equity management company.
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  • From 1992 until 2013, a member of the Board of Directors of this group, one of the leading worldwide construction materials producer.
Church’s Shoes Ltd
  • From 2006 until 2014, a member of the Board of Directors of Church’s Shoes Ltd., the English luxury shoes maker, member of the PRADA Group.

    Other positions

Piccinini currently serves also as a member of :
Piccinini also served in the past as a member of :
  • the Supervisory Board of Nice Aéroports de la Côte d’Azur
  • the Board of Directors of Azzurra Aeroporti S.p.A.