Giorgio Rossi Cairo
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Giorgio Rossi Cairo is an Italian entrepreneur.
Biography
[edit]He graduated firstly in Aerospace Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan and subsequently from the Executive Program in Finance at INSEAD, Fontainebleau. From 1972 to 1973 he was a CNR researcher at the Polytechnic University of Milan. He subsequently worked until 1978 as Executive Vice President of the Transportation Planning Division at Polytecna Harris, an Italian-American engineering company.[1]
From 1979 to 1992, he was a director of McKinsey & Company and a member of the Principal Candidate Evaluation Committee, that elected new partners worldwide.[2]
In 1993, he founded Value Partners, a global management consulting firm with offices in 5 countries: Milan (headquarters), London, San Paolo, Buenos Aires, Istanbul, Singapore, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
In 2000, he established Value Team, a system integrator specializing in business-critical IT services. In April 2011, Value Team was transferred to NTT DATA.
In 2016, he invested in digital innovation by creating a dedicated division within Value Partners that focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Human Centre Design, Security and Process Automation projects.
In the early 2000s, he acquired La Raia estate - carrying out the conversion to organic and biodynamic cultivation of vineyards and fields that led to Demeter certification in 2007. The Raia is home to a Waldorf-Steiner-oriented school created by his eldest daughter Caterina, and in 2017 he opened Locanda La Raia, a 12-room relais, and the Borgo, designed to host events. Subsequently, in 2015 he bought Tenuta Cucco, in the Langhe, an organic estate where Barolo is produced. Both estates, for the agricultural part, are managed by his second son, Piero.
In 2013, he created, together with Irene Crocco, and presides over, Fondazione La Raia for the promotion of a critical look at the landscape, through the activity of international artists invited to realise works and projects within La Raia. To date, eleven works are visible to the public and numerous conferences have been organised, dedicated to the theme of landscape.
He has significant holdings in Italian industrial and service companies.
External links
[edit]- Agire subito, anche se non si sa quando passerà la tempesta Il Sole 24 Ore, Giorgio Rossi Cairo, 30 marzo 2020.
- Intervista al collezionista: Giorgio Rossi Cairo Corriere della Sera, Alessandro Martini e Maurizio Francesconi, 8 marzo 2020.
- 18 buoni motivi per non perdere in treno digitale L’Economia del Corriere della Sera, Federico De Rosa, 11 December 2017.
- L’arte contemporanea nelle cantine italiane. Un rapporto che continua Gambero Rosso, Loredana Sottile, 3 November 2017.
- Gavi, l'azienda agricola che fa arte tra i vigneti, La Stampa, Daniele Prato, 25 May 2017.
- Vino biodinamico La Raia, l'80% va all'estero - Il Sole 24 Ore Giorgio dell'Orefice, 3 May 2017.
- Industria 4.0 "Vi aiutiamo a fare la rivoluzione" - Corriere Economia Greta Sclaunich, 21 November 2016.
- Ecco cosa chiederei a Renzi Il Sole 24Ore, 18 March 2015.
- Fibra? Allacciatela come Google - MF Gabriele Capolino, 7 March 2015.
- Rossi Cairo e Rosso nel capitale di EcorNaturaSì, Il Sole 24Ore, Emanuele Scarci, 14 January 2014.
- China doesn’t understand much about Italy yet, International Business Daily, 13 November 2013.
- Un popolo di terzisti, Milano Finanza, Gabriele Capolino, 13 July 2013.
- Concentrations and quality low-costs: the most effective recipe for Italy to face current economic crisis, Corriere della Sera, Giorgio Rossi Cairo, 5 December 2011.
- The brain is not to be delocalized, MF, Gabriele Capolino, 18 June 2011.
- Solutions for Brain Drain. IESE Alumni Event in Milan led by IESE Prof. Alberto Ribera, Milano, Hotel Principe di Savoia, 19 maggio 2011. Giorgio Rossi Cairo takes part to the round table devoted to brain drain and Italian laws preventing it.
- Multi 3G technology will be unified in the end, Business Watch Magazine, Zhou Yebin, 20 July 2009.
- Trends in Strategic Consulting in the Face of Globalization, Università degli Studi Milano Bicocca, Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management, 2007.