John Elkann Biography
John Elkann is the current Chairman of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV and an Italian-American industrialist. His grandfather Gianni Agnelli, Fiat’s majority shareholder, chose him as his successor.
John Elkann Age
Elkann was born on 1 April 1976, in New York, United States of America. He is 47 years old as of April 2023. He is also known as John Philip Jacob Elkann.
John Elkann Education
Elkann attended primary school in the United Kingdom and then in Brazil before moving to Paris, France, with his family. In 1994, he graduated from the State School Lycée Victor-Duruy with a Baccalauréat Scientifique. Later that year, he transferred to Italy to attend the Politecnico di Torino in Turin, where he graduated in 2000 with a degree in management engineering.
John Elkann Family- Mother
Elkann was born in New York, to Alain Elkann and his wife, Margherita Agnelli, a member of the clan that was once regarded as Italy’s uncrowned royal family. His father was a reporter. His parents divorced in 1981, and both of them remarried. Gianni Agnelli, an industrialist, and Marella Agnelli, an Italian socialite, were his maternal grandparents.
He has two siblings: Ginevra and Lapo, as well as five half-siblings from his mother’s second marriage to Serge de Pahlen. Lapo is an Italian businessman, and Ginevra is a prominent figure in the Italian film industry.
John Elkann Wife- Children- Wedding
Elkann has a wife named Lavinia Borromeo, a member of the House of Borromeo, a prominent Italian aristocratic family. They married in a Catholic ceremony on Isola Madre, one of Lake Maggiore’s Borromean Islands, on September 4, 2004. They have three children, Leone, Oceano, and Vita.
John Elkann Career
While pursuing his bachelor’s degree, John Elkann participated in several internships to gain valuable work experience. These include a car dealership in Lille, France, a headlight plant in Birmingham, England, a production line in Tychy, Poland, and a thesis on e-auctions at GE’s CIG (corporate initiatives group). Elkann’s grandfather, Gianni Agnelli, chose him to take over the family business from Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, the son of Gianni’s younger brother, Umberto, who died at the age of 33. As a result of the family tragedy, he entered the automotive industry and joined the Fiat Board at the age of 21. He joined General Electric’s Corporate Audit program after graduating from Politecnico di Torino.
In 2003, he joined IFIL (now EXOR) and worked tirelessly to turn around the FIAT Group. In May 2004, he was instrumental in the appointment of the current FCA CEO, Sergio Marchionne. Following the death of his grandfather Gianni Agnelli in 2003, John Elkann became the vice chairman of Fiat, and the following year, he became the vice chairman of Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz following the death of his great uncle Umberto Agnelli. He was appointed Chairman of Fiat S.p.A. and Giovanni Agnelli Sapaz in 2010. In February 2011, he was appointed CEO and Chairman of EXOR. He is also the Chairman of Ferrari and a member of the boards of ‘The Economist Group’ and ‘Partner Re’.
How rich is Elkann?- Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of US$2 billion as of 2023.