Renzo Carli

Born in Pisa on September 8 1916.

Died in Turin on May 5 1994.
Married Gianna Pininfarina in 1947.

Air Force Academy (Rex Course).

Graduated in Aeronautical Engineering from Turin Polytechnic in 1941.
Served in the Armed Forces until the end of World War II.

1946: joined Shell's Technical Servicing Division.
1948: joined Carrozzeria Pininfarina, becoming General Manager in 1958 (a position he retained until 1977) and CEO 1961.

In the Pininfarina Group, Renzo Carli occupied the following positions:

• CEO of Pininfarina S.p.A.
• Director of Industrie Pininfarina S.p.A.
• Director of Pininfarina Studi e Ricerche S.p.A.
• Director of Pininfarina International S.A.
• Director of Pininfarina Investments and Trading Ltd.

Renzo Carli made a decisive contribution to Pininfarina's expansion from tiny workshop handcrafting one-off models to order, or very limited editions, to its current industrial dimension in a growth process that has gone hand in hand with the boom in car ownership in Italy.