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Ferdinando Maria Brachetti Peretti (born in Rome on January 13, 1960), from the wealthy Peretti family, is CEO of an Italian company, API Group. He is married to Her Royal Highness the Princess and Landgravine Mafalda Margherita von Hessen.

Business

Ferdinando Peretti began his career in 1983 in the family company, the energy group “API Anonima Petroli Italiana” – “IP Italiana Petroli” 100% owned by “API Holding”, of which he is, together with his brothers, 100% shareholder. His father, Cav. Del Lavoro Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti, head of the Group for 30 years, delegated full powers to his son, Ferdinando, in September 2007. Ferdinando is CEO of API Holding, the financial safe of all the API Group, and he is President of API Energia and API Nova Energia, as well as Vice President of API S.p.A. and API Raffineria di Ancona S.p.A.]]. In the two sub-holdings of the electric sector, sectors are being developed for the production of electric energy from both traditional sources (natural gas and LNG plants) as well as renewable, such as aeolic, biomass, photovoltaic, solar. He is a permanent member of the Coordination Committee of the API Group in which strategies of the Group are determined and the political operations of each single company are coordinated. He began working at the company at the age of 23 as, for a period of time, a worker in the refinery. Throughout the years he has directed all the sectors of the various companies making up the API Group, managing in a “downstream” manner, i.e. the whole of the activity from the supply of crude to the transport to tankers, to the refining, marketing and sale of petroleum and all of its derivatives. He moved to London for four years where he initiated the petroleum trading which is still today one of the most significant sectors of the Group. He then transferred to Paris for two years to study administration and finance after an internship at the Paribas Bank; he thereafter returned to the headquarters in Rome in the 1990s.

Private life

Since his youth, first in Italy and then later in England, he dedicated himself to his passion for motorcycles and motocross at a professional level, whereas today he is a motorcycle racing enthusiast. Among his other interests is photography, which he has been fascinated with since he was a boy. He did photo-reportages while travelling in Europe and crossing by bike through the deserts of Africa and Australia, receiving recognition and prizes such as the “Motor Adventure of the Year 1984”. Today he blends his love of photography with his love of contemporary art, which he collects as well as being an artist himself, creating digital works of various diverse subjects. His photographs are currently exhibited at "Padiglione Italia" in the "Biennale di Venezia 2011".

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