Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani: Italian Business Executive

Enrico Tommaso Cucchiani studied Economics and Business Administration at Bocconi University in Milan from 1970 to 1975. He then completed research work on multinational corporations at Harvard Business School in 1975. Enrico holds an MBA and Fulbright Fellow from Stanford Graduate School of Business from 1975 to 1977.

He started his career in 1977 serving at Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust in Chicago, Illinois. Enrico then moved to McKinsey & Co. Milan/New York from 1979 to 1985.  He was then General Manager of fashion house Gucci from 1985 to 1992. 

Other positions include being CEO of Llyod Andriatico, SpA, a subsidiary of Alliance SE, Head of Insurance Europe of Alliance SE (formerly Allianz AG). He has served as Member of the Management Board of Alliance SE from October 2006 to December 21, 2011 and Head of Insurance Europe (& South America) from January 2010 to December 21, 2011.

Enrico has been Managing Director and Member of the Management Board at Intesa Sanpaolo SpA since December 22, 2011, and served as its CEO. Intesa Sanpaolo is the second-largest bank in Italy. Enrico has been trying to institute reforms in the bank but had several clashes with major shareholders.  He finally resigned in September 2013 after a 21 month tenure.

A business executive of vast and varied experience Enrico has had a sterling career but also knows when to exist when he can’t do things his way.