Francesco Milleri (born in 1959) is an Italian businessman. He is the chairman of

EssilorLuxottica EssilorLuxottica SA is a French vertically integrated multinational corporation based in Paris and founded on 1 October 2018 from the merger of the Italian Luxottica with the French Essilor. The group designs, produces and markets ophthalmic lens ...

since June 2022.

Early life

Francesco Milleri was born in 1959. He graduated from the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

with a bachelor of laws, and earned a master in business administration from

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

. He was also awarded a two-year Donato Menichella scholarship from the

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at the

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Career

Milleri worked as a

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. In 1996 he founded Abstract, a strategic digital consultancy company. Following the 2006 acquisition of iDoq, a company specializing in document flow automation and owner of the Lucy Star digitization platform, Abstract began collaborating with Campari, Barilla, and Luxottica. Subsequently, Francesco Milleri was entrusted with leading the digitization phase of Luxottica’s business processes. At the end of this ten-year period, Leonardo Del Vecchio wanted Milleri to stay in the company on a permanent basis, and appointed him first Director with deputy functions and later Vice-president. He later became the deputy chairman of Luxottica, and succeeded Massimo Vian as its CEO in December 2017. Under his leadership, in 2018 the operation that led to the birth of EssilorLuxottica was completed. He was appointed executive co-delegate in May 2019, and CEO in 2020. In May 2021, Francesco Milleri was confirmed as EssilorLuxottica CEO. On 28 June 2022, he was appointed chairman of EssilorLuxottica following Leonardo Del Vecchio's death, and in early June 2022, he was also appointed chairman of Del Vecchio's family holding company Delfin.

Other roles

* Assistant professor of political economy at his alma mater, the University of Florence * Director of the Leonardo Del Vecchio Foundation

References

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