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  John Elkann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Jacob Philip Elkann (born April 1, 1976) is an Italian industrialist and heir to the automaker Fiat.
John Elkann, known to friends and family as Jaki, was born in New York, United States.
As Elkann is over a quarter of a century younger than di Montezemolo, and half a century younger than Gabetti, he is expected to become head of this empire in the future.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Elkann   (553 words)

  
 Lapo Elkann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lapo Elkann (born 2 October 1978) is a New York-born Italian industrialist, marketing manager and heir to the automaker Fiat.
He is the brother of John Elkann, who is widely expected to become the head of the Fiat group.
Lapo Elkann was engaged to the Italian show-girl Martina Stella.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lapo_Elkann   (177 words)

  
 John Elkann 1976—
Named to Fiat's board at the age of 21 in 1997, Elkann's youth sparked rumors of a succession crisis that Agnelli quieted with the reminder that he had also been young when he joined the Fiat board in 1943 at the age of 22.
A studious and determined man, Elkann possessed both poise and elegance, but as of 2004 it was not yet clear whether he had the toughness of his grandfather—and the ability to lead Fiat.
Elkann was put in charge of developing the direction of that brand.
www.referenceforbusiness.com /biography/A-E/Elkann-John-1976.html   (668 words)

  
 All in the Fiat family: Agnelli heir aims to reinvigorate legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elkann is poised to move into the driver's seat at the 107-year-old icon, the European model of family capitalism espoused by his clan is struggling to endure.
Elkann assumes the leadership role within the family, he is aware that the Agnellis no longer hold the unassailable status they once did.
Elkann's younger brother, Lapo, who had been serving as an executive at Fiat Auto, survived a drug overdose at the apartment of a transvestite, a story that dominated Italian newspaper headlines for days.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/06177/701290-185.stm   (1320 words)

  
 Fiat heir in hospital : HindustanTimes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lapo Elkann, stylish heir of Fiat's founding Agnelli family, was rushed to hospital early on Monday with breathing difficulties but his life was not in danger, officials said.
Elkann, 28, is the grandson of Fiat scion Gianni Agnelli, who died in 2003, and the younger brother of the firm's deputy chairman, John Elkann, who according to media was at the hospital to follow Lapo's condition.
Elkann's hospitalisation was the latest hit for the Agnellis, who have been likened to the US Kennedy family for the troubles that have tempered their good fortune.
www.hindustantimes.com /news/181_1515818,00020010.htm   (450 words)

  
 TIME EMEA Magazine Media Planner | PR - JUNE 26: TIME MAGAZINE SPEAKS EXCLUSIVELY TO JOHN ELKANN
Elkann is still rather young, and there are some conflicting ideas within the family about their holdings.
Though it unfolds like a Victorian play, Elkann insists that his ascendancy to the Fiat throne was "very natural." Born in New York City and raised in Britain, Brazil and France, he returned to his parents' hometown of Turin to study engineering at the rigorous Politecnico University.
Elkann may be especially suited for these global challenges, having lived all around the world as a youth.
www.time.com /time/europe/mediakit/pr/article/0,18181,1208306,00.html   (1203 words)

  
 The Montana Standard - Butte, Montana USA
ROME (AP) — John Elkann, vice chairman of Fiat, is the father of a boy.
Elkann’s wife, Lavina Borromeo, gave birth early Sunday at a hospital in Turin, said John Elkann’s father, the writer and journalist Alain Elkann.
John Elkann’s younger brother Lapo was hospitalized in October after he suffered an overdose in the apartment of a transvestite where investigators said they later found traces of cocaine.
mtstandard.com /articles/2006/08/28/newsnationworld/hjjdjbhbjcfdic.txt   (876 words)

  
 billingsgazette.com
Yet Elkann, the son of Giovanni Agnelli's daughter Margherita and her former husband, writer Alain Elkann, is little known to the public.
Born in New York, Elkann studied engineering in Turin and was sent to work anonymously on a Fiat assembly line in Poland, a Fiat dealership in France, and a Fiat-owned headlight factory in England.
Elkann has no such reputation, keeping clear of the paparazzi and presenting the image of a studious, determined young man who has immersed himself in the world of business rather than that of showgirls and indulgence.
www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?display=rednews/2002/10/13/build/business/14-fiat.inc   (1303 words)

  
 NWAnews.com :: Northwest Arkansas' News Source
John Elkann, vice chairman of Fiat, is the father of a boy.
Elkann’s wife, Lavina Borromeo, gave birth early Sunday at a hospital in Turin, Italy, said Elkann’s father, the writer and journalist Alain Elkann.
John Elkann is being groomed to take over the auto giant, Italy’s largest nonstate company.
www.nwanews.com /adg/national/164866   (309 words)

  
 John Philip Elkann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John inherited at age 26 the famous Fiat Company in Italy after his grandfather Giovanni Agnelli died in 2003.
The son of Gianni's daughter Margherita and French-born writer Alain Elkann, John Philip has already cut his teeth on the Fiat-500 assembly line in Poland and in sales and marketing in France.
And if John Elkann's role as heir apparent seems a challenge for his tender age, it's not a first.
worldroots.com /cgi-bin/gasteldb?@I39680@   (380 words)

  
 Fiat Heir's Overdose Transfixes Italy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Lapo Elkann, the great-great-grandson of Fiat founder Giovanni Agnelli, was taken to the hospital Tuesday after overdosing at the Turin apartment of a 53-year-old transvestite, ambulance services and city officials said.
Elkann's older brother, John, is vice chairman of Fiat and is being groomed to take over the auto giant, Italy's largest non-state company.
Elkann often couples his playboy lifestyle with savvy marketing initiatives, however, appearing at parties and events dressed in flamboyant suits or in shoes and jumpers that prominently bear the Fiat logo.
www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/10/12/240615.xml   (575 words)

  
 Omnipelagos.com ~ article "John Elkann"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
He is the son of Margherita "daisy" Agnelli de Pahlen, a painter and a poet, daughter of the late Gianni Agnelli, and her first husband, Alain Elkann, a journalist and a writer, they got marriage in 1974.
John Elkann spend his childhood traveling between UK, Brazil, and France, with his parents and siblings.
The wedding took place at a private chapel in the Isle Borromeo, a group of small islands located on Lake Maggiore in the North of Italy, The islands are owned by the Borromeo family.
www.omnipelagos.com /entry?n=john_%45lkann   (419 words)

  
 TIME Europe Magazine: All In The Family --
But for John Elkann, the 30-year-old vice chairman of both Fiat and IFIL, the Agnelli family's €6 billion holding company, this is the perfect place for a power lunch.
Elkann was one of just a handful of executives quoted in the press after last month's keynote address by new Bank of Italy governor Mario Draghi.
Elkann also got high marks for his firm — and unusually public — response to the recent match-fixing scandal consuming Italy's top football club, Juventus, which the Agnelli family has owned since 1923.
www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,1207766,00.html   (2086 words)

  
 Die Presse.com - Alles schneller www.issen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Elkann hat sie empfangen, unmittelbar aus den Händen des Patriarchen Giovanni Agnelli.
Der zweite Auftritt John Elkanns bestand in einem einzigen, eisigen Satz.
John Elkann, der nach allgemeiner Erwartung in nicht allzu fernen Monaten zum Konzern-Präsidenten aufsteigen wird, wird sie mitverantworten.
www.diepresse.com /textversion_article.aspx?id=577699   (488 words)

  
 2003 Global Influentials
John Elkann -- the grandson Agnelli had handpicked six years earlier as his eventual successor -- cut a striking figure at the wake in Turin, reminding many of the young Agnelli's poise and elegance.
Questions in the past were related to the tragic circumstances of Elkann's rise.
Elkann's duties now are centered at the company's investment group, IFIL, which has broadened its holdings to include banking, retail and ownership of Turin's soccer team, Juventus.
www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2003/global.influentials/stories/elkann   (276 words)

  
 BreakingNews.ie: Fiat heir marries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Elkann married Lavinia Borromeo, a 26-year-old Italian aristocrat, in a small chapel on a tiny island in Lake Maggiore that has been owned by the bride’s family for centuries.
Elkann is the son of Margherita, daughter of the late Fiat chairman Giovanni “Gianni” Agnelli, and her former husband, writer Alain Elkann.
Born in New York, Elkann studied engineering in Turin and was sent to work anonymously on a Fiat assembly line in Poland, a Fiat dealership in France and a headlights factory owned by Fiat in England.
www.breakingnews.ie /story.asp?j=116533066&p=yy653377z&n=116533826&x=&fs=2   (366 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Jews won't be stifled, writer says
He is now divorced from Margherita Agnelli, daughter of the late charismatic Fiat chairman Gianni Agnelli, but their eldest son, John Elkann, 28, is vice chairman of Fiat and the heir to the dynasty.
Elkann's book launch last month drew a mixture of celebrity and power that few can match, bringing together Gianni Agnelli's sister, Susanna; Gianni Letta, Berlusconi's right-hand man; a distinguished Rome rabbi and a leading Italian Roman Catholic bishop.
Time and again in the 88-page book, Elkann gets back to the problem of anti-Semitism and the minority position of Jews in a country such as Italy where, he pointed out in the interview, the word "Christian" is often used to mean human being.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,595109609,00.html   (785 words)

  
 Il Sole 24 ORE.com - John Elkann: «Non siamo indifferenti a ciò che è accaduto»   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Elkann: «Non siamo indifferenti a ciò che è accaduto»
Elkann non ha speso alcuna parola sulle voci che vorrebbero presto al timone del club Carlo Sant'Albano, l'amministratore delegato di Ifil (la società cassaforte degli Agnelli) fresco di nomina nel cda bianconero, ieri al fianco del vicepresidente di Fiat nell'atrio del Delle Alpi.
Non è escluso, infine, una nuova "discesa in campo" della stessa famiglia, magari attraverso un impegno in prima persona della nuove generazioni di casa Agnelli, rappresentate appunto da John Elkann e dal cugino Andrea Agnelli.
www.ilsole24ore.com /fc?cmd=art&codid=20.0.1895365820&artType=Articolo&DocType=Libero&chId=30   (649 words)

  
 The New York Times > Business > World Business > Member of Fiat's Board Likely to Take Over as Chief ...
Elkann is the grandson of Giovanni Agnelli, the brother of Umberto Agnelli, who was the family patriarch until his death in January 2003.
John Elkann, 28, was named on Sunday as Fiat's vice chairman.
Elkann in 1997 when he was 21 as the first in line to take control of the company, extending a line sometimes compared to that of the Kennedys in the United States as a blend of privilege, influence and loss.
www.nytimes.com /2004/06/01/business/worldbusiness/01fiat.html?ei=5007&en=e515515b148f2414&ex=1401422400&adxnnl=1&partner=USERLAND&adxnnlx=1111130367-Q0c71EewmMH37npAitWXOw   (833 words)

  
 John Elkann - Red Enciclopedia
John Jacob Philip Elkann detto "Jaki" (nato nel 1976 a New York) è un industriale italiano, erede della casa automobilistica Fiat.
La madre di John, Margherita, è la figlia dello scomparso Gianni Agnelli la cui famiglia controlla il 30% della Fiat.
Dopo la morte di suo cugino Giovanni Alberto Agnelli, figlio di Umberto Agnelli, nel 1997 il nonno di Elkann decise che John doveva essere il futuro erede della famiglia.
www.redhostingdns.com /index.php?title=John_Elkann   (130 words)

  
 John Elkann alla Juve:«Riprendetevi la A e sarete nella storia» - Del Piero: «Già a Rimini il primo passo»   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Ha parlato così John Elkann, ieri nello spogliatoio della Juve, davanti a una squadra già in tenuta di allenamento, che avrà un anno per riprendersi il paradiso del pallone.
Sottoscrivo l’impegno con Torino»: così parlò infatti John Elkann, il 16 agosto scorso a Villar Perosa, quando andò a vedersi la Juve insieme al fratello Lapo, a due giorni dalla Camera di Conciliazione del Coni.
Dopo le strette di mano, è stato John Elkann, pantaloni bianchi sotto una polo a maniche lunghe rossa, a spiegare le ragioni di una scelta che ha tenuto la Juve dentro la giustizia sportiva.
www.liberaopinione.it /sezione03/004742.asp?rif=13   (964 words)

  
 Gianni Agnelli's grandson on Fiat board
Fiat said in a statement that John Elkann, the eldest son of Agnelli's daughter Margherita and her first husband Alain Elkann, would join the company's board.
Fiat said the appointment of Elkann to the board was the best way of ensuring the continuation of the family's association with the company founded by Gianni Agnelli's grandfather, Giovanni Agnelli.
"John Elkann is young, but has already shown that he possesses notable capacities and moral qualities," the statement quoted Agnelli as saying.
www.expressindia.com /fe/daily/19971221/35555333.html   (556 words)

  
 JOHN ELKANN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
John Philip "Jaki" Elkann ist ein neuer York-getragener italienischer Industrieller und ein Erbe zum Autohersteller, den Fiat.He Vorsitzendes von Brett und von Vorsitzendem Fiats seines ernennenden Ausschusses ist.
Als "Jaki" Elkann ist 28 Jahre alt, ist di Montezemolo 56, und Gabetti ist 79, Elkann wird erwartet, Kopf dieses Reiches in kommenden Jahren zu werden.
It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
www.faktedon.com /wiki/de/jo/John%20Elkann.htm   (191 words)

  
 Tgfin - Articolo Tgfin
Il "Time", lanciando la sensazionale ipotesi, a John Elkann, che oggi è vicepresidente dell'azienda, dedica quattro pagine in cui di parla di "cibo, arte e strategie".
Proprio a Marchionne "Time" riconosce il merito di avere risanato il gruppo e in particolare il settore auto scrivendo: "Sotto la guida rivoluzionaria di Marchionne, nei primi cinque mesi le vendite del settore auto in Europa hanno raggiunto le 520mila unità con un aumento del 23,2% rispetto al 2005".
John però "insiste nel dire che il suo obiettivo è quello di far convergere tutti", citando il modo di vedere di suo nonno, "egli riteneva fermamente che la leadership si ottiene con il consenso"'.
www.tgfin.mediaset.it /tgfin/articoli/articolo316022.shtml   (459 words)

  
 Lapo Orso Capo
TORINO - Lapo Elkann, 28 anni, nipote dell'Avvocato Agnelli, è ricoverato in terapia intensiva nel reparto rianimazione dell'ospedale Mauriziano di Torino per un'overdose dovuta ad un cocktail di stupefacenti, a base di cocaina.
Lapo Elkann è stato trasportato in ospedale intorno alle 9 a bordo di un'ambulanza del 118.
Elkann, secondogenito di Margherita Agnelli, figlia dell'Avvocato, e dello scrittore Alain Elkann, è responsabile della promozione del marchio di Fiat Auto.
www.tuttogossip.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=162&view=previous   (199 words)

  
 Bettega, Giraudo, Moggi: Who's staying? Who's leaving? - Juventuz Forums
Juventus patron John Elkann has hinted that the ‘Triade’ of Luciano Moggi, Roberto Bettega and Antonio Giraudo will be sacked.
John Elkann e Luca Cordero di Montezemolo hanno deciso...
Lapo Elkann also indicates by his words that he may keep the coach...
www.juventuz.com /forum/showthread.php?t=16152   (1643 words)

  
 Donna Lavinia Borromeo and John Elkann - Royal Blue Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The wedding was held on September 4, 2004 at the Princes Borromeo's Private Chapel at Isola Madre on Lake Maggiore, Italy.
Donna Lavinia Borromeo (born: 1977) is the daughter of Don Carlo Ferdinando Borromeo dei Principi di Angera and his first wife, Marion Sibylle Gabriele Zota.
John Jacob (Jaki) Elkann (Born: 1976) is the son of Alain Elkann and Margherita Agnelli.
forums.rbhq.net /showthread.php?t=4033   (226 words)

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