Lapo Elkann is a New York-born Italian industrialist and creative entrepreneur. 

President and Founder of Italia Independent Group, a listed Company which includes Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

 

Fluent in 4 Languages, Lapo Elkann spent the first ten years of his life in London, then Brazil with his mother and siblings.

He moved to France, where he was enrolled at a boarding school in the French Alps, then studied at the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris. 

He graduated from London Guildhall University.

 

In 2001, Lapo worked as Personal Assistant to Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates in NYC.

In 2002 he moved back to Italy and entered the family owned Fiat S.p.A. as Assistant of the Institutional Relations Director.

 

He was then marketing and sales associate for Ferrari and Maserati and, in  2003, was in charge of Fiat Europe Operative Marketing B.U.

 

While in charge of Brand Promotion  he designed the Fiat Sweaters using a Fiat vintage logo. It was a huge success (launched at Corso Como in Milan, sold out in many specialty stores) which aim was to make youngster perceive Fiat as a "buddy brand" and love mark at the moment in which the company was at its worst financial moment.

 

Promoted Director of  Brand Promotion for FiatGroup (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati...) he coordinated the reinvention of classics like the Fiat Punto and Fiat 500 and their launchs.

 

He left the family group in 2006 and, in early 2007, created the first of his companies: "Italia Independent", a lifestyle brand, featuring ready -to- wear and eyewear products conceived, developed, and produced in Italy.

Independent Ideas, the Communication and Advertising agency, followed the year after.

 

Lapo Elkann is with brother John and sister Ginevra a majority shareholder of Exor, the Investment Company controlled by the Agnelli Family, which owns a controlling stake of Fiat-Chrysler.

 

He is "global ambassador" of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel and Worldwide Ambassador for the Italian Design Museum/Triennale.

 

Lapo has been inducted in the Automotive Hall of Fame in July 2013.

Vanity Fair magazine listed him in its Best Dressed Hall of Fame in 2009.The magazine has previously listed him in the International Best Dressed List from 2005 til present.

Lapo Elkann is a New York-born Italian industrialist and creative entrepreneur. 

President and Founder of Italia Independent Group, a listed Company which includes Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

 

Fluent in 4 Languages, Lapo Elkann spent the first ten years of his life in London, then Brazil with his mother and siblings.

He moved to France, where he was enrolled at a boarding school in the French Alps, then studied at the Lycee Charlemagne in Paris. 

He graduated from London Guildhall University.

 

In 2001, Lapo worked as Personal Assistant to Henry Kissinger at Kissinger Associates in NYC.

In 2002 he moved back to Italy and entered the family owned Fiat S.p.A. as Assistant of the Institutional Relations Director.

 

He was then marketing and sales associate for Ferrari and Maserati and, in  2003, was in charge of Fiat Europe Operative Marketing B.U.

 

While in charge of Brand Promotion  he designed the Fiat Sweaters using a Fiat vintage logo. It was a huge success (launched at Corso Como in Milan, sold out in many specialty stores) which aim was to make youngster perceive Fiat as a "buddy brand" and love mark at the moment in which the company was at its worst financial moment.

 

Promoted Director of  Brand Promotion for FiatGroup (Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Lancia, Ferrari, Maserati...) he coordinated the reinvention of classics like the Fiat Punto and Fiat 500 and their launchs.

 

He left the family group in 2006 and, in early 2007, created the first of his companies: "Italia Independent", a lifestyle brand, featuring ready -to- wear and eyewear products conceived, developed, and produced in Italy.

Independent Ideas, the Communication and Advertising agency, followed the year after.

 

Lapo Elkann is with brother John and sister Ginevra a majority shareholder of Exor, the Investment Company controlled by the Agnelli Family, which owns a controlling stake of Fiat-Chrysler.

 

He is "global ambassador" of the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Israel and Worldwide Ambassador for the Italian Design Museum/Triennale.

 

Lapo has been inducted in the Automotive Hall of Fame in July 2013.

Vanity Fair magazine listed him in its Best Dressed Hall of Fame in 2009.The magazine has previously listed him in the International Best Dressed List from 2005 til present.