John Jacob Philip Elkann (born April 1, 1976), often known as “Jaki”, is an Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, and heir to the automaker Fiat, which also owns the Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Ferrari, and Lancia marques. Currently he is vice chairman of Fiat and chairman of the Agnelli Group investment company IFIL (now Exor). Exor is one of Italy's largest companies and controls the Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Juventus F...
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John Jacob Philip Elkann (born April 1, 1976), often known as “Jaki”, is an Italian industrialist, grandson of the late Gianni Agnelli, and heir to the automaker Fiat, which also owns the Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Ferrari, and Lancia marques. Currently he is vice chairman of Fiat and chairman of the Agnelli Group investment company IFIL (now Exor). Exor is one of Italy's largest companies and controls the Corriere della Sera, La Stampa and Juventus F.C. amongst others.
John Elkann was born in New York, United States as the first son of Margherita Agnelli de Pahlen, a painter and a poet and her first husband, Alain Elkann, a French-Italian journalist and writer. His parents divorced in 1981. He has a brother Lapo and a sister, Ginevra, as well as five half siblings from his mother’s second marriage to Serge Graf von der Pahlen.
He attended primary school in New York; then his family then moved to Paris, where he earned a scientific secondary-school diploma at the Victor Duruy Lycée in 1994...
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