Rank #755
Claudio Del Vecchio
Net worth $5.6B
Eyeglasses · Italy
- Born
- Feb 26, 1957
- Age
- 69
- Source
- Eyeglasses
- Residence
- Muttontown, New York
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
Net worth over time
Biography
- Claudio Del Vecchio is one of six children of Leonardo Del Vecchio, the late chairman (d. 2022) of EssilorLuxottica, the world's largest eyeglasses firm.
- He inherited a 12.5% stake in his father's Luxembourg-based holding company Delfin after his death, along with his stepmother and six siblings.
- Besides EssilorLuxottica, Delfin also owns shares in insurer Generali; banks Monte dei Paschi di Siena and UniCredit; and real estate developer Covivio.
- Claudio served as Luxottica's co-CEO in the 1990s and took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange in 1990.
- He acquired Brooks Brothers, America's oldest clothing retailer, in 2001; the firm filed for bankruptcy in September 2020.
- Claudio moved from Italy to New York in 1982 and helped spearhead Luxottica's entry into the U.S. market in the 1980s.
- He was awarded the title of Cavaliere del Lavoro, one of Italy's highest civilian honors, in 2014.
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