Carlo Bonomi
Carlo Bonomi (Crema, August 2, 1966) is an Italian entrepreneur and business executive active in the biomedical sector, former president of Confindustria from May 20, 2020, to April 4, 2024.
Biography
Born into a family of professionals and a first-generation entrepreneur, he began working in an accounting firm. After gaining experience at a multinational pharmaceutical company, he acquired a company supplying laboratory analysis instruments. In 2013, he founded Synopo, a company distributing electromedical equipment that became the parent company when he launched an acquisition strategy in the Mirandola district: in 2015, he acquired Sidam, a leader in the production of consumables for contrast liquid diagnostics, then BTC Medical Europe (oncology consumables), followed by Ocean and Marsupium.[1]
In June 2017, he was appointed president of Assolombarda,[2] the largest territorial industrial association within Confindustria. During the same period, he served on various advisory boards, including the board of the Istituto per gli studi di politica internazionale (ISPI) and the general council of Aspen Institute Italy. Since November 2018, he has been a member of the board of directors of Bocconi University, and in November 2019, he joined the Board of Directors of Dulevo International.
On 16 April 2020, he was designated as president of Confindustria for the 2020–2024 term.[3]
Carlo Bonomi received 123 votes against 60 for his competitor Licia Mattioli. The designation by Confindustria’s general council was held remotely due to the COVID-19 emergency. Before the final vote on 26 March, the committee of three “sages” managing the remote voting collected 162 voting indications, although Bonomi had secured the certification of support from 20% of eligible voters in the assembly, more than tripling his supporters in the actual election.[4]
After Bonomi and the committee of “sages” proposed that Mattioli withdraw in favor of a single, “super-partes” candidate modeled on Guido Carli,[5] Licia Mattioli accepted the role of vice president. Regarding electronic voting, the opposing candidate told ANSA: “I am far more surprised than disappointed by the outcome of the vote [...] My constant thought is for the companies fighting for survival, but I cannot help wondering where the votes of the many who had formally declared their support went.”[6]
At the end of April, he called on the government to launch a strong industrial policy to revive the economy and employment, noting that “the State must remain a regulator, not a manager,” and avoid creating a new IRI or isolating itself in Europe by rejecting the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and Eurobonds. Drawing on the ideas of economist Carli, Bonomi reminded that financing Italian public debt cannot disregard the ECB.[7]
On 30 April, he presented his leadership team, which includes the three ex officio vice presidents: Carlo Robiglio, president of Small Industry; Alessio Rossi, president of Young Entrepreneurs; Vito Grassi, president of the Council of Regional Representatives; and ten elected vice presidents: Barbara Beltrame (Internationalization); Giovanni Brugnoli (Human Capital); Francesco De Santis (Research and Development); Luigi Gubitosi (Digital); Alberto Marenghi (Organization, Development, and Associative Marketing); Maurizio Marchesini (Value Chains and Medium Enterprises); Natale Mazzuca (Maritime Economy and Southern Italy); Emanuele Orsini (Credit, Finance, and Taxation); Maria Cristina Piovesana (Environment and Sustainability); and Maurizio Stirpe (Labor and Industrial Relations).[8]
He was officially appointed president of Confindustria by the assembly of industrialists on 20 May 2020, receiving 818 votes in favor and 1 abstention.[9]
Private life
Since 2020, he has been married to Veronica Gervaso, a journalist at TG5.
Note
- ↑ Fabio Pavesi, Bonomi, state aid is fine for Confindustria , in Il Fatto Quotidiano, 5 June 2020.
- ↑ Assolombarda, Carlo Bonomi elected president, he was the deputy of his predecessor Rocca, in Il Fatto Quotidiano, 12 June 2017
- ↑ Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi is the president-designate, in Il Sole 24 Ore, 16 April 2020.
- ↑ Confindustria, the 16th new president. Bonomi-Mattioli online challenge, on askanews.it, 11 April 2020
- ↑ Giuseppe Colombo, The wise men of Confindustria launch Bonomi as the sole candidate, but Mattioli's numbers do not close the game on huffingtonpost.it, 12 March 2020
- ↑ Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi is the designated president: «Dreadful GDP sinkhole, reopen production but in safety. Lost political class, has exposed us to anti-industrial prejudices", on ilsole24ore.com, 16 April 2020.
- ↑ Alessandro Di Stefano, Who is Carlo Bonomi, the designated President of Confindustria, on startupitalia.eu, 16 April 2020
- ↑ The General Council approves the new team, on confindustria.it
- ↑ Confindustria, Carlo Bonomi is the designated president, in Il Sole 24 Ore
