Matteo Colaninno
Matteo Colaninno (Mantua, 16 October 1970) is an Italian politician and entrepreneur, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Piaggio & CSpA, shareholder and Executive Chairman of Omniaholding SpA, Executive Chairman of Immsi SpA and Omniainvest.
Biography
Son and firstborn of entrepreneur and business executive Roberto Colaninno, he graduated with honors in economics and commerce at the Università degli Studi di Verona and began working, in his early twenties, at the company founded a few years earlier by his father: SOGEFI.[1]
He served as a board member and Chair of the Internal Control Committee of Il Sole 24 Ore, and was a board member of RCN Finanziaria S.p.A. and Cattolica Immobiliare S.p.A. He held the position of Vice President of Banca Popolare di Mantova.
He was President of the Young Entrepreneurs section and Vice President of Confindustria, as well as Vice President of Yes for Europe, the European confederation of young entrepreneurs.
Political career
After Walter Veltroni, then Mayor of Rome, won the first Democratic Party primaries in 2007, Matteo Colaninno was appointed by Veltroni as National Head of Economic Development in the national Secretariat of the Democratic Party (PD).
On 14 February 2008, the PD secretary Walter Veltroni announced Colaninno’s candidacy as lead candidate in Circoscrizione Lombardia 1 for the 2008 general election.
Chosen by national secretary Dario Franceschini as Chair of the PD’s Development Forum, he was elected Member of Parliament on 14 April 2008 and appointed Shadow Minister of Economic Development in the Democratic Party shadow cabinet, a role he held from 9 May 2008 to 21 February 2009. He joined the party’s National Directorate.
He was President of the PD’s Business Forum from 2009 under the new secretary Pier Luigi Bersani.
In the 2013 election, he was re-nominated to the Chamber of Deputies on the PD list in Lombardy 3 in fourth position, and was re-elected as a deputy.
On 5 June 2013, he was chosen as National Economic Coordinator of the Democratic Party in the new national secretariat by the secretary-in-charge Guglielmo Epifani. Politically close to former Democratic leader Bersani, then later aligned with Matteo Renzi.
In the 2018 election, he was re-elected as a deputy on the PD list.
Following the PD split by the Renzi parliamentary group, Colaninno in September 2019 left the PD and joined Italia Viva, the new political party founded by Renzi with a liberal and centrist orientation.[2]
Private life
In 2004, he married Giovanna Ballabeni, a high-school classmate who was then Head of the press office of the Province of Mantua. The couple has two children.[3]
Note
- ↑ Renzi, dinner in a villa on the Aventine with 120 parliamentarians. Colaninno imitates Tremonti, on Il Fatto Quotidiano, 27 July 2018
- ↑ Italia Viva, 41 parliamentarians join: here is the list , on Rai News , 18 September 2019
- ↑ Matteo Colaninno (Italia Viva): "I'm with Matteo Renzi", on agenpress.it, 18 September 2019
