Fabio Boschi to join Fabio Perini As Chairman of Perini Navi
Fabio Boschi to join Fabio Perini As Chairman of Perini Navi
The Shareholders of Perini Navi have appointed Fabio Boschi to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors, andFabio Perini Honorary Chairman.
Fabio Boschi, 43, is CEO of Perini Navi’s holding company Faper Group since 2009. Faper controls a group of companies that operate in paper machinery, real estate, and various other industries.
Fabio Boschi is a member of the advisory board of Real Estate Funds e and Business Park management companies in Europe and South America.
He was previously in charge of investment banking for a major Italian bank and, for a decade, he worked in strategic consulting and corporate finance with KPMG in Italy and the United Kingdom.
“I am extremely happy to have Fabio Boschi on board with Perini Navi“, said Fabio Perini, Founder of the company. “This step completes a long term strategy to strengthen and reinforce our management and ensure continuity and sustainability throughout the group“.
With a fleet of 59 yachts on the water, 56 sailing yachts and 3 motor yachts, the Perini Navi Group is the world leader in the design and construction of large sailing yachts. In 2007 the Group also began to build motor yachts with the brand name Picchiotti, thus re-launching the historic Picchiotti shipyard acquired in the early 1990’s. The Group is made up of the Perini Navi shipyard in Viareggio, founded in the 1980’s by Fabio Perini who invented and developed a revolutionary automatic sail control system, and the Picchiotti shipyard in La Spezia where the Group constructs its motor yachts and concentrates most of its refitting and repairing work. The Perini Istanbul-Yildiz shipyard in Turkey is where the Group’s hulls and deck structures are produced. Additionally, Perini Navi USA is a commercial division of the Group through which owners of Perini Navi Groupyachts can arrange charters and find brokerage services for both new and previously owned Perini Navi Group yachts.
