Italian-American lawyer and CEO of Gucci (1994–2004) who partnered with creative director Tom Ford to execute one of the most dramatic luxury brand turnarounds in history, and famously blocked Bernard Arnault's hostile takeover attempt using a poison-pill employee stock ownership plan.
Orchestrated the Gucci revival — combining Tom Ford's provocative creative direction with operational restructuring — and deployed an ESOP dilution strategy that blocked LVMH's hostile acquisition, forcing Arnault to sell to François-Henri Pinault's PPR (now Kering) instead.
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