Stefano SASSI
CEO, Valentino Fashion Group
Born in Varese in 1960, Stefano Sassi started his career at Bain & Company in Milan working on major consultancy projects of Italian companies. In the mid nineties he entered the Cerruti Group as General Manager as well as General Manager and Board Member of Lanificio F.lli Cerruti.
He then became General Manager at Marzotto in 2001 and afterwards appointed Chief Executive Officer.
In December 2006 he started his venture at the Valentino Fashion Group as Chief Executive Officer and later also as Chairman, to develop, implement and oversee the Valentino brand development and business after Valentino Garavani left the world-famed brand he had founded. At that point the Valentino brand, that had belonged to the Marzotto Group, and was taken over by the private equity fund Permira, needed intense work of brand repositioning, a new commercial approach and generally a 360 degree revision of its business structure, which is now starting to give its visible results.