Marco Piccinini

Marco Piccinini ( born 1952 in Rome ) is a former team principal of the Scuderia Ferrari.

Marco Piccinini studied architecture in Rome and came during his studies for the first time with motor racing in contact when he worked for an Italian Formula 3 team. Already in the 1960s he moved to Monaco and began a career in banking.

In 1974 he was one of the founding members of the first Monaco race car manufactory Société Monégasque de Constructions Automobiles MP. In 1975 he rose to the Directorate of Monaco bank and came in 1977 as a consultant to Ferrari.

Under Enzo Ferrari he rose rapidly and was until the mid- 1990s, worked in various roles for the Italian brand. Piccinini was race director and team principal of the Scuderia and negotiated for the team the Concorde Agreement with the FIA. After his departure from Ferrari, he worked in many official and voluntary functions. He was from 1988 to 2008 vice-president of the FIA ​​and 1993-1994 President of the Italian Automobile Association.

Piccinini is still a member of supervisory boards and clubs such as the Monte Carlo Country Club. From 1997 to 2000 he was Chairman of the Italian Americas Cup campaign, the first in the finals of the Team New Zealand defeated by yacht Luna Rossa.

In 2010, Piccinini was now Monegasque citizens, Ambassador of the Principality in the People's Republic of China and India. In January 2011 he was appointed Minister of Finance of Monaco; he held until his resignation in October 2012 this post. Then became known in March 2013 that he the board of directors of the company ABR Management joins as Deputy Chairman.