Ennio Doris

Ennio Doris is chairman of Banca Mediolanum, an Italian bank with more than $80 billion in assets. He got his big break after pitching his financial services ideas to Silvio Berlusconi, who later became Italy's prime minister and a billionaire.In 1982, the duo founded Programma Italia offering insurance products; it became Banca Mediolanum and expanded into investments and savings in 1997.For years, he was the public face of the company's ad campaigns, a role that has more recently been delegated to his son Massimo, the CEO.