Roberto Pontremoli (born June 5, 1937) is an Italian
insurance executive. From 1993 to 1999, he was CEO of the
Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni INA Assitalia S.p.A. was an insurance company, operating on the Italian market from 1912 to 2013. In the last years it belonged to the Assicurazioni Generali group.
History
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Rotary International club of
Milan
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Biography
Roberto Pontremoli was born to Mario Pontremoli and Maria Spangher (born in 1889 in
Bari
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and died in
Milan
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), member of a wealthy family of Venetian origin; her ancestor Cav. Giovanni Spangher (son of
Johann Spangher) was an important manager of
Credito Italiano
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. Pontremoli is related to his namesake Roberto Pontremoli. In 1943, due to the
imminent war, he moved with his family to
Switzerland
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where his father was already residing for work reasons, and at the end of the war in 1946, he returned to
Milan
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Graduated in law, he worked in a law firm and then joined the
RAS
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company in May 1960. In 1972, he became managing director of the
Padana Assicurazioni and
Agip assicurazioni Spa companies belonging to the ENI group. In 1973 he convinced the top management of
Eni
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to join the
Oil Insurance Ltd. mutual company with headquarters in
Bermuda
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, where he represents the interests of the group on the board of directors. In 1977 Pontremoli left
Eni
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to join the
SAI in
Turin
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as general manager, and then in 1979 he took on the role of general manager of the insurance company
La Fondiaria.
In 1981, he moved from the Fondiaria to
La previdente Spa as CEO. During his assignment to the Previdente, the income was significantly increased (by 22%) with the consequent listing on the stock exchange. In 1991 he left "
La Previdente" to assume the position of president of the company
Fenice Riassurance Spa for one year. In 1992 he was appointed extraordinary commissioner of the insurance company
MAA by the insurance supervisory body
ISVAP on the recommendation of the Minister of Industry
, with the task of saving the company from bankruptcy. Once the company was reorganized, SAI took over the main restructured company branch, with the consequent change of top management.
At the beginning of 1993, he was appointed president of the brokerage company
Nikols Aon., and in November 1993 he accepted the appointment as chief executive officer of the
Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni INA Assitalia S.p.A. was an insurance company, operating on the Italian market from 1912 to 2013. In the last years it belonged to the Assicurazioni Generali group.
History
INA, Istituto Nazionale delle Assicurazioni, was a public entity special ...
(
INA) from the Treasury Minister
Lamberto Dini
Lamberto Dini CGMG (born 1 March 1931) is an Italian politician and economist. He was the Director General of Bank of Italy from 1979 to 1994, Minister of Treasury from 1994 to 1996, the 51st Prime Minister of Italy from 1995 to 1996, and Forei ...
. As CEO of Assitalia SpA, he promoted the development of international relations and worked on the Boards of the investee companies in Italy, France, Spain, Russia and (Germany), freeing the group from some investors with results deemed inadequate. In 1999, the sale of
INA to
Assicurazioni Generali
Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A. ( , ; meaning 'general insurances') or simply Generali Group is an Italian insurance company based in Trieste. As of 2019, it is the largest of its kind in Italy and among the top ten largest insurance companies in ...
led to a change of top management.
In 1998, he was appointed vice-president of the
Treccani Institute. Since 2003 he has been president of the Lombardy section of the AIDA company (position transferred by his friend
Giorgio Sacerdoti), organizing conferences on the digitization of banking and insurance companies in this role. Since 2006 he has been managing director of Ergo Assicurazioni Spa. Since 2014 he has been collaborating with PRB S.r.l to try to implement the process of digitizing the organizational processes of insurance companies.
Sito ufficiale Università Bocconi sul convegno Solvency II
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Honors
*PH Fellow of Rotary Club International
See also
* Esdra Pontremoli
References
External links
Archivio Storico EniArchivio INAFondazione Mansutti, storia dell'assicurazione
* "Roberto Pontremoli". In: ''Sutter's International Encyclopedia'', John C. Dove, Vol. II, 1997
on-line
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1937 births
Italian legal scholars
Businesspeople in insurance
Living people
Italian chief executives