Massimo Colomban

Massimo Colomban (Santa Lucia di Piave, May 31, 1949) is an Italian entrepreneur, founder of Permasteelisa, a multinational company operating in the construction sector, and Quaternario Investimenti S.p.A., a real estate investment company in the clubhouse and luxury hotel sector.

Biography

The second youngest of five siblings, Colomban left school at 14 to work as a factory worker in a window frame plant. Attending evening classes, he graduated as a surveyor and enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the Università Iuav di Venezia. After two years of university, at age 24 he left his studies and job to start his own business, founding Isa S.n.c. (Aluminum Window Industry). Over the following years, the company grew, becoming a world leader in the design, production, and installation of building envelopes. Following the acquisition, which began in 1986, of the Australian firm "Permasteel Industries Pty Ltd.", which had built the glass facades of the Sydney Opera House, the company changed its name to Permasteelisa. This marked the beginning of international expansion.

In the late 1990s, he decided to hand over leadership of the company to a group of managers and purchased the Brandolini Castle with the aim of turning it into a luxury hotel and conference center.

At the 2010 Veneto regional elections, he ran, without being elected, on the center-right list Alleanza di Centro-Democrazia Cristiana (2002), supporting Luca Zaia's candidacy for President of Veneto. In 2012, together with Arturo Artom and about ten entrepreneurs and top managers, he founded the ConfAPRI association, a network and think tank for small and medium-sized entrepreneurs from Northeast Italy.

On 30 September 2016 he was appointed city councillor in charge of municipal companies in Rome by the city's mayor Virginia Raggi, resigning a year later.

External links

• Official website of ConfAPRI