Rafaela Aponte-Diamant is an Italian billionaire and a major shareholder of the
Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) Group, along with her husband,
Gianluigi Aponte
Gianluigi Aponte (; born 27 June 1940) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).
Early life
Gianluigi Aponte was born in Sant'Agnello, Italy (near Sorrento, in the pro ...
.
Early life
Aponte-Diamant was born in
Haifa,
Mandatory Palestine. As a child, she and her parents then immigrated to Switzerland, where her father worked as an executive banker in
Geneva, Switzerland.
Personal life
Aponte-Diamant is married to
Gianluigi Aponte
Gianluigi Aponte (; born 27 June 1940) is an Italian billionaire businessman, and the founder, owner and chairman of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC).
Early life
Gianluigi Aponte was born in Sant'Agnello, Italy (near Sorrento, in the pro ...
, an Italian businessman. They met when she was a passenger on a boat of which he was the captain.
They have two children, Diego Aponte and Alexa Aponte Vago, who are respectively CEO and CFO of MSC.
References
1945 births
People from Haifa
Living people
Italian businesspeople in shipping
Italian billionaires
Swiss billionaires
Israeli billionaires
Swiss Ashkenazi Jews
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