Name
Diego Della Valle
Diego Della Valle
Sant' Elpidio A Mare, Italy
Italy
shoes
$1,400,000,000
1605
#1605 Billionaires 2019
Diego Della Valle took the small shoe factory his grandfather started and turned it into global shoe- and purse-maker Tod's S.p.A.Della Valle, who is chairman, and his brother Andrea together own the majority of the company.The brothers also hold stakes in Italian scooter-maker Piaggio, multimedia conglomerate RCS MediaGroup and investment bank Mediobanca.Della Valle cofounded Italy's first private rail operator, Ntv-Italo, with former Ferrari chairman Luca Cordero di Montezemolo and others in 2006.Ntv-Italo was sold to American investment firm Global Infrastructure Partners for $2.2 billion a dozen years later.
He has spearheaded a campaign to renovate the crumbling Roman Colosseum, committing millions of euros from Tod's for the project.The Della Valles also own Italian soccer team ACF Fiorentina and two yachts, one of which used to belong to John F. Kennedy.
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