Leopoldo Pirelli was an Italian

Italy

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 businessman. He was the president of Pirelli

Pirelli

Pirelli & C. SpA is a diverse multinational company based in Milan, Italy. The company, the world’s fifth largest tyre manufacturer, is present in over 160 countries, has 20 manufacturing sites around the world and a network of around 10,000 distributors and retailers.Founded in Milan in 1872,...

 from 1965 to 1996, and he was elected vice-president of Confindustria

Confindustria

Confindustria is the Italian employers' federation, founded in 1910. It groups together more than 113,000 voluntary member companies, accounting for nearly 4,200,000 individuals. It aims to help Italy's economic growth, assisting, in doing so, its members...

 in 1974.

Pirelli is the grandson of the founder Giovanni Battista Pirelli.

Pirelli joined the company as a member of the Pirelli SpA board in 1954 and appointed deputy chairman serving from 1956 to 1965.

The last known descendent of Giovanni and Leopoldo Pirelli is a 16 year old boy in Vermont, United States by the name of Justin Morse-Perellie. Justin Morse-Perellie's name before coming to the United States was Vincent Sebastiano Pirelli. Justin moved to the United States when he was two years old in 1996.