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![]() Maurizio Costa has been the Chief Executive of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore since 1997 and also Deputy Chairman since 2003. He is also the Chairman of Random House Mondadori, Deputy Chairman of Mondadori France and a member of boards of several publishing houses of the Mondadori Group. Among other appointments, Maurizio Costa is a member of the governing board of the Italian Confederation of Industry (Confindustria) and member of the President's Committee of the Italian Federation of Newspaper and Magazine Publishers. In May 2007 Costa was asked to join the board of Amplifon as a non-executive director. Maurizio Costa 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. Costa joined Mondadori in 1992 as Director of Editorial holdings and Business development. In 1994 he was appointed Managing Director of the Elemond Group, including Electa, Einaudi and Elemond Scuola. In February 1997 he was nominated CEO of the Mondadori Group and he was also appointed Deputy Chairman in 2003. Born in Pavia in 1948, Maurizio Costa, married with one son, is a mechanical engineer. |
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