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Carlo Pesenti

Italian businessman¹

Carlo Pesenti (born 1907 in Alzano Lombardo; died September 20, 1984, in Montreal, Canada) was an Italian entrepreneur. From 1946 until his death, he was director of the Italcementi Group and its affiliated companies and banks.²

From Wikipedia’s article on Carlo Pesenti (this version), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Born 1907, died Sep 20, 1984.¹

About

He was also the main shareholder of the newspapers La Notte and Il Giornale di Bergamo and, until the end of the 1960s, owner of the car manufacturer Lancia. At one point, he sat on the supervisory boards of over 20 companies and also had excellent political contacts. Following a fraud scandal in the late 1970s, Pesenti lost control of most of his companies.

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Companies

Istituto bancario italianoFounder¹⁰

Early life and education

Date not recordedPolytechnic University of Milan³

Career

Occupation: engineer, businessperson.⁶

Date not recordedFounded Istituto bancario italiano⁴
Date not recordedFounded La Notte⁵

Personal life

Born1907, Alzano Lombardo⁷
DiedSep 20, 1984, Montreal⁸
CitizenshipKingdom of Italy, Italy⁹

Politics

Pesenti belonged to Italy's conservative Catholic establishment and had close ties to the financial and industrial elite. He was anti-communist and a supporter of the Democrazia Cristiana, with whom he entered into a close client relationship that pushed the boundaries of legality. Pesenti is also said to have financed the right-wing extremist and terrorist Avanguardia Nazionale. As an important European industrialist, he was well connected throughout Europe and participated in the meetings of the Trilateral Commission. He also attended meetings of Le Cercle, a conspiratorial forum for cooperation between conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic. In his autobiography, David Rockefeller refers to Le Cercle as the "Pesenti group" and states that he first learned of its existence in October 1967, when he was invited by Carlo Pesenti to join it.