Corporate Governance
Board of Directors
She contributes to several scientific journals and is a member of bodies that promote sustainability policies on a global scale.
She combines university research with practice, participating as member of the board of directors within listed companies (e.g. Banco BPM, OVS, Aquafil) and others. From 2014 to 2022 she has been Chairwoman of Crédit Agricole FriulAdria (Crédit Agricole Italia Bank Group), being the first Italian woman chairing a bank.
Since 2022, Member of EFRAG Sustainability Reporting TEG.
From 2021 to 2022 Vice-Chair SME and Sustainability, Accountancy Europe, Bruxelles.
Since 2020, Member of IFAC Board (International Federation of Accountants).
From 2015 to 2020, Chairwoman of ESG Reporting Task Force, Accountancy Europe, Bruxelles.
From 2006 to 2012, Council Member of the municipality of Pordenone.
To achieve this vision, Bonazzi challenged the organization to develop a recycled nylon material by turning nylon trash into high-quality, beautiful fibers. Where others see waste, Bonazzi saw an opportunity.
After several years of investment in R&D and a relentless pursuit of a new way to regenerate nylon, ECONYL® was born. Aquafil launched ECONYL® regenerated nylon in 2011 and today it is one of the most sought after materials in the world for fashion designers and carpet manufacturers.
Bonazzi was appointed CEO of Aquafil in 2001 and added the role of chairman in 2008. He started his career at Aquafil in 1987, starting on the ground floor at the Aquafil plant in Arco. Since then he has helped the company grow, developing 16 plants in eight countries across three continents. Today, Aquafil is recognized as a sustainability leader, a stalwart example of the circular economy and an innovator within the synthetic textile industry.
Fortune has highlighted Aquafil on its Change the World list of companies that are addressing social challenges through their core business activities and the American Chamber of Commerce in Italy has awarded the company with a Transatlantic Award for fostering positive transatlantic relations between Italy and the U.S. for its investment in a carpet recycling plant in Phoenix, AZ.
He is a sought-after speaker and has shared insights on creating a circular economy at leading conferences including Texworld USA, Fashionnovation, the One Ocean Forum, the Responsible Business Summit, the Ethical Corporation Summit and the Copenhagen Fashion Summit. He is recognized by Forbes Italia as a Top CEO for innovation, international competitiveness and creating a great work environment.
Before starting to work for Aquafil Group in 1998, he served as Managing Director in a chemical textile company and worked for eight years in Electrolux Group’s companies, mainly in France. In 1999 he moved to USA and he contributed to set up Aquafil USA of which he became Chairman (General Manager) in 2006.
She is admitted to the Milan Bar since 2021 and since 2018 has been working at law firm DLA Piper in the Corporate and M&A department. She currently advises Italian and foreign companies with respect to M&A transactions, both domestic and cross-border, group reorganizations, and day-by-day corporate matters. Before joining DLA Piper, she worked at the Milan offices of the law firms Linklaters LLP and Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
In 2003 he became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin, of which he was Rector between 2005 and 2011. He is currently a Full Professor of Electrical Machines and Drives, and a Lecturer at the University of Bologna.
He worked as Design Engineer at the Ansaldo Company’s Research and Development Centre in Genoa. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Telecom, Pirelli, Unicredit Private Bank, Il Sole 24 Ore, Fondazione Agnelli, Chairman of IREN Group until May 2016, member of the Scientific Council of IIT until March 2022, and Chairman of the Bruno Kessler Foundation until April 2023.
To date, he is Chairman of the ESMI ESCP Europe/Campus Foundation in Turin, Member of the EIC European Innovation Council Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Aquafil, Member of the Supervisory Board of Italgas, Member of the Advisory Board of Iliad Italia SpA.
He was appointed Chairman of the Compagnia di San Paolo Foundation on 9 May 2016 and reconfirmed on 4 May 2020. He is also President of ACRI from May 2019
She is chairman of the board of statutory auditors in the listed company Piquadro SpA, and statutory auditor in the public company ATAC SpA, in Mediobanca SGR, Agilepower Srl, Agile Lab Srl.
She has served as an independent director in the listed company Maire Tecnimont SpA, and as chairman of the board of statutory auditors in the listed company GVS Spa.
She is enrolled in the list of Experts for the negotiated settlement of corporate crises and in that of Judicial Custodians and Sales Delegates, in the register of those in charge of management and control functions in CCI procedures and in that of Technical Consultants. She acts as an expert for company valuation, financial advisor and certifier of recovery plans. She is among the conferees for Italy of CERIL – Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law.
September 2022, increased her area of responsibility by becoming Chief Administrafive Officer. She
is also President of Abi CASL (Union and Labor Affairs Commiftee) since december 2022,
and also member of the Execufive Commiftee in ABI and a member of BoD at Aquafil.
She started her career in consulfing at Faber and then became Human Resources Director of Ceva
Logisfics BU with responsibilifies in Southern Europe, Middle East & Africa and later Human
Resources, Organizafion and Internal Communicafions Director for Europe and South America in
TNT Post Group.
She then became Vice President Human Resources and Facility Management at Sky Italia Group and
then she assumed the role of Chief Human Capital Officer at Montepaschi Group, where she
remained 9 years. Afterwards she joined Vodafone Italia as Human Resources and Organizafion
Director and member of the Execufive commiftee.
She has been a member of the Widiba BoD of the Montepaschi Group, Director of the MPS Leasing
and Factoring Banca BoD for Financial Services for Enterprises, in the BoD of Consel Consorzio Elis
Scarl and in the Coordinafion Commiftee of the Permanent Young Editors Observatory.
(*) Director who has declared that he satisfies the independence requirements pursuant to Articles 147-ter, paragraph 4 of the Consolidating Law on Finance, as well as Article 3 of the Code of Self-Governance.