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Sandro Veronesi* Director
Andrea Zappia* Chairman of the Human Resources Committee
*Director satisfying the requirement of independence set forth in the Italian Consolidated Financial Law and in the
Code of Conduct
Massimo Vian is also an employee of the Company.
Set out below is a brief profile of each member of the Board of Directors in office. Information is provided regarding
the initial year each director was appointed to the Board and the offices held in other listed companies, in financial,
banking and insurance companies as well as in those companies of significant size, identified through the criteria
implemented by the Company with regard to the accumulation of positions and detailed below. For Luxottica Group,
only the most significant subsidiaries or those companies having strategic relevance are listed.
Leonardo Del Vecchio
The Company founder, Mr. Del Vecchio has been Chairman of the Board of Directors since its incorporation. In 1986,
the President of Italy conferred on him the badge of honor Cavaliere dell’Ordine al "Merito del Lavoro". In May 1995
he was awarded an honorary business administration degree by the University Cà Foscari in Venice. In 1999, he was
awarded an honorary Master’s degree in International Business by MIB, Management School in Trieste and in 2002 he
was awarded an honorary management engineering degree by the University in Udine. In March 2006, he received an
honorary degree in materials engineering by the Politecnico in Milan. In December 2012 the Fondazione CUOA
awarded him an honorary master’s degree in business administration.
He is Chairman of Delfin S.à r.l., Deputy-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Foncière des Régions S.A., and a
member of the Board of Directors of Beni Stabili S.p.A. SIIQ and Kairos Julius Baer SIM S.p.A.
Luigi Francavilla
Mr. Francavilla joined Luxottica Group in 1968. He has been a Director since 1985 and Deputy Chairman since 1991.
During his long career with the Group he was the Group’s Chief Quality Officer , the Group’s Product & Design
Director and Technical General Manager. He is the Chairman of Luxottica S.r.l. and Luxottica Tristar (Dongguan)
Optical Co Ltd, which are among the major production subsidiary companies of the Group.
In April 2000, he was awarded an honorary business administration degree by the Constantinian University, Cranston,
Rhode Island, U.S.A. In 2011 he was appointed ‘Grande Ufficiale’ of the Republic of Italy and in 2012 ‘Cavaliere del
Lavoro’.
Mr. Francavilla is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Venice branch of Bank of Italy.
Massimo Vian
Mr. Vian was appointed Director of the Company on October 29, 2014, taking on all the powers of management ad
interim until January 19, 2015, the date on which he took on the office of CEO for Product and Operations. He