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Maurizio Costa has been the chief executive of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 1997 and deputy chairman and chief executive since 2003.
He is also the chairman Grupo Editorial Random House Mondadori; a non-executive director of Società Europea di Edizioni S.p.A. (publisher of the national daily Il Giornale) and the Fondazione Arnoldo e Alberto Mondadori, as well as being a member of various boards of the companies of the Mondadori Group.
He began his professional life with the IRI Group before spending a number of years in management consulting. He joined the Montedison Group in 1984, was director of strategy and development at Standa from 1985 to 1988 and general manager of the Standa Group between 1989 and 1992.
He joined Mondadori in 1992 as director of editorial holdings and was also responsible for acquisitions, disposals and new business development.
In 1994 he was appointed managing director of the Elemond Group, becoming a member of the boards of a number its subsidiary companies, including Electa, Giulio Einaudi Editore and Elemond Scuola; in 1996 he also took over responsibility for Sperling & Kupfer.
In February 1997 he was nominated general manager of the Mondadori Group, also becoming a member of both the board of directors and the executive committee of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore S.p.A., of which he was subsequently appointed chief executive in September of the same year.
Among other appointments, Maurizio Costa is chairman of the Confindustria Cultural Commission, a member of the President's Committee of the Italian Federation of Newspaper and Magazine Publishers, member of the governing boards of the Lombardy Confederation of Industry (Assolombarda), a member of the board of directors of the Council for Relations between Italy and the USA.
In May 2007 he was asked to join the board of Amplifon as a non-executive director.
Born in Pavia in 1948, Maurizio Costa, married with one son, is a graduate in mechanical engineering from the University of Genoa.