Alberto Bombassei (born October 1940) is an Italian
billionaire businessman, the chairman and president of
Brembo, an Italian manufacturer of automotive brake systems.
He controls 53.5% of Brembo.
He was born in
Vicenza
Vicenza ( , ; ) is a city in northeastern Italy. It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the ''Monte Berico'', where it straddles the Bacchiglione River. Vicenza is approximately west of Venice and east of Milan.
Vicenza is a thr ...
, Italy. His father
Emilio Bombassei co-founded Brembo in 1961 with
Italo Breda, and in 1975,
Enzo Ferrari
Enzo Anselmo Giuseppe Maria Ferrari (; 20 February 1898 – 14 August 1988) was an Italian motor racing driver and entrepreneur, the founder of the Scuderia Ferrari Grand Prix motor racing team, and subsequently of the Ferrari automobil ...
asked the company to provide braking systems for his Formula 1 racing cars.
He is married with two children, and lives in
Bergamo, Italy.
In 2013 Bombassei was elected MP among the ranks of the
Civic Choice party and held office until 2018. As of September 2020, he is a member of the Italian
Aspen Institute.
executive Committee
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1940 births
Italian billionaires
Businesspeople from Bergamo
Living people
People from Vicenza
Civic Choice politicians