Full Name: John Elkann
Date of Birth: 1 April 1976
Place of Birth: New York City, U.S.
Citizenship: Italian, American
Occupation: Chairman, Stellantis, Chairman and CEO, Exor, Chairman and CEO, Ferrari
Alma mater: Politecnico di Torino
Family
Father Name: Alain Elkann
Mother Name: Margherita Agnelli
Spouse: Lavinia Borromeo
Children: 3
John Elkann Biography:
- John Philip Jacob Elkann is an Italian industrialist.
- Born in New York City, John Elkann holds both Italian and American citizenship.
- He is the eldest son of Alain Elkann, a New York-born journalist and writer of French Jewish and Italian Jewish background,and his then wife Italian Margherita Agnelli.
- His parents divorced in 1981 and both have remarried.
- Elkann’s maternal grandparents were the industrialist Gianni Agnelli and the Italian socialite Marella Agnelli (born Donna Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto).
- Elkann attended primary school in the United Kingdom and Brazil, before his family moved to Paris, where he obtained a baccalauréat scientifique at the State School Lycée Victor-Duruy in 1994.
- While pursuing a degree in engineering, Elkann gained work experience through several internships: headlight plant in Birmingham, England (1996), production line in Tychy, Poland (1997), car dealership in Lille, France (1998) and also at GE’s CIG (corporate initiatives group) where he worked on a thesis on e-auctions (1999).
- Later the same year, he moved to Italy to attend the Politecnico di Torino (Turin), where he graduated with a degree in management engineering in 2000. As a result of his international upbringing, he is fluent in four languages.
- In 2003, he joined IFIL (now Exor)[15] and worked on the turnaround of Fiat Group.
- Elkann was instrumental in the appointment of FCA CEO Sergio Marchionne, in May 2004.
- In July 2018 he was appointed chairman of Ferrari after Sergio Marchionne left due to health issues. In December 2020 Elkann became temporary CEO after the departure of Louis Camilleri.
( Last Updated : 13 July 2023)