Gianluigi Gabetti
Italian businessman (1924–2019)
Gianluigi Gabetti (29 August 1924 – 14 May 2019) was an Italian businessman. Best known for his long-time role as advisor of the Agnelli family and their related business activities, Gabetti was director general of IFIL Group, the family investment company since 1971 that later became Exor, the holding company of the Agnelli family. He worked there as their closest financial adviser for over thirty years. When Gianni Agnelli died in 2003, his younger brother Umberto Agnelli asked the octogenarian Gabetti to return as CEO of IFIL.
Early life
Gabetti was born in Turin on 29 August 1924, the son of a prefect of Sassari, who met Gabriele D'Annunzio, and of a family originally from Murazzano in the Langhe, where his great-great-grandfather's family moved from Dogliani after the fall of Napoleon, and where he served as an Italian partisan. About the Italian fascist years, Gabetti said: "A harness. A disguise. Fascism disguised Italy: a country dressed up as a fascist, which behaved like a fascist. I heard my grandparents say: 'It's all a farce, but let's not tell Ottavio so as not to put him in difficulty.'" He recalled how his father hated to wear the uniform. Asked about what was Sardinia like in the 1930s, he said: "Wonderful. Fascism barely touched it.
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