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Gianfelice Rocca (born in Milan, on March 2, 1948) is an Italian entrepreneur. He is Chairman of the Techint Group and Vice President for Education of Confindustria, the leading association of Italian industrialists.

Education

Rocca holds a cum laude degree in Physics from the University of Milan, and a post-graduate degree from Harvard Business School in Boston.

Career Rocca joined the Techint Group in 1974. In 1980, at the age of 32, he was appointed head of Corporate activities in Italy, Europe and Mexico. He has been Chairman of the Techint Group since 1997.

The Techint Group currently consists of the following companies: Tenaris, Ternium, Techint Engineering & Construction, Tenova, Tecpetrol and Humanitas. Acknowledged as a world leader in steel, energy and infrastructures, in 2010 the Group had a workforce of 54,000 people and reported revenues of 19 billion dollars.

Under Gianfelice Rocca’s leadership the Techint Group has significantly expanded the operations of the companies that report to the Milan HQ (Techint E&C, Tenova and Humanitas).

Techint E&C specializes in Engineering, Procurement & Construction services (EPC) for industrial plant and major infrastructure. To date, it has completed more than 3,500 projects around the world, in oil&gas, chemicals and petrochemicals, energy production and distribution, oil, gas and water pipelines and mining. In addition to its operations in Italy, Techint E&C is active throughout Latin America, in the Middle East, Asia and Africa, and runs an Engineering Center in Mumbai, India.

As the result of an international acquisitions policy, which included in 2006 Germany’s LOI Thermoprocess, a leader in industrial furnaces, the Techint Group greatly developed its technology offer for steelmaking and in 2007 created Tenova as a brand for all the divisions and operations in the steel plant business. Tenova continued the expansion, moving into the mining sector in 2007 through the acquisition of TAKRAF, a leading German company in open-pit mining equipment and systems. Today Tenova has more than 30 companies operating in over 20 countries on 5 continents.

In the 1990s, in Rozzano (Milan), Gianfelice Rocca founded the Istituto Clinico Humanitas, , today one of Europe’s most important hospitals with an international research and teaching center. The creation of the Humanitas Clinic marked the start of a new business in the Healthcare sector, which has since grown through the acquisition of a number of other important hospitals in Italy, coordinated by the Humanitas S.p.A. company. In 2010, through an agreement with the Università degli Studi di Milano, an International Medical School (“MIMed”) was instituted at the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Rozzano offering an English-language degree course in Medicine and Surgery.

Humanitas and Tenova have both become Harvard University management case studies.

Appointments

Gianfelice Rocca is a member of the boards of Allianz S.p.A., Brembo S.p.A., Buzzi Unicem and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. At international level, he is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the European Advisory Board of Harvard Business School, the Executive Committee of Aspen Institute and the Allianz Group Advisory Board. In April 2004 he became Confindustria Vice President for Education.

Social activities Gianfelice Rocca is Chairman of the Rocca Foundation, a body active in a number of social and educational projects around the world. In 2005, in memory of Rocca’s father, the foundation announced the “Progetto Roberto Rocca”, an innovative agreement between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Milan Politecnico to promote cooperation between the two distinguished universities through exchanges of graduate students and post-doctorate researchers in Italy and the USA.

Honors

In 2007 Rocca was made a Cavaliere del Lavoro and in 2009 he was awarded an honorary degree in Management Engineering by Milan Politecnico. In 2010 the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, presented Rocca with the 2009 Leonardo Award for his contribution to enhancing Italy’s international standing in steelmaking, energy and infrastructure.

Other interests

A keen yachtsman and mountaineer, in 1969 Rocca took part in the expedition organized by the “Ragni di Lecco” mountaineering group to explore the Cerro Torre in Patagonia, regarded as one the world’s most inaccessible peaks. The experience prepared the ground for the conquest of the Cerro Torre by the “Ragni di Lecco” in 1974 and was the start of Gianfelice Rocca’s long-standing association with the group. In 2007 plans were organized for the ascent of an unexplored face of the Cerro Piergiorgio in Patagonia, in memory of Agostino Rocca, Gianfelice and Paolo Rocca’s brother, who had died in 2001. In 2008 mountaineers Christian Brenna and Hervé Barmasse became the first to climb the north face of the Piergiorgio, dedicating their ascent to Agostino Rocca by calling it La Routa de l'Hermano. In 2011 Gianfelice Rocca became an honorary member of the “Ragni di Lecco” mountaineering group.