Governance structure

Since October 2018 he has been Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Group, where since 1993 he has held several roles, mainly focused on the management of commercial activities and business development, as Sales and Development Manager.

He oversees the implementation of procedures and operating systems for the analysis and risk assessment relating to the acquisition of Italian and foreign contracts; he follows commercial and legal activities aimed at obtaining the necessary qualifications from public clients for participation in tenders.

He graduated in Economics and Business at the University La Sapienza (Rome).

He is a member of the Board of Directors of Salcef Group and Sole Director of Euro Ferroviaria, a subsidiary of the Salcef Group.

From 2013 to 2018 he was Sole Director of the parent company, previously he held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Giva Travel S.r.l. and, before that, he carried out promotional and commercial activities, as well as being Head of the conference office, with roles in the organization of events for important companies such as, inter alia, Ferrero S.p.A., Sysco System S.p.A., Pfizer S.p.A., Banca IMI, CGIL, CISL, UIL and Assiom Associazione Italiana Operatori dei Capitali.

Graduated from the High School of Humanities, from 1998 to 2003 he was responsible for tourism and congress activities in hotels in Riccione.    

In 1978 he joined The Boston Consulting Group's Paris office, where he worked on important strategic and international projects for different industries. In 1984 he was appointed vice president and partner of the group worldwide and in 1985 he opened the Italian office in Milan. In 1988 he founded the Società Iniziative Commerciali (S.I.C.) and Sviluppo Commerciale (S.S.C.), active in the large-scale distribution sector, holding the role of Chief Executive Officer andmember of the Board of Directors.

He was Chairman of OBI Italia before joining Interpump Group in 1996, as Chief Executive Officer and later Chairman of the Board of Directors. In 2013 he was promoter of Industrial Stars of Italy S.p.A., the first Italian SPAC which  incorporated Lu-Ve Group S.p.A. The second SPAC, Industrial Stars of Italy 2, merged by incorporation with SIT S.p.A.. Salcef  merged Industrial Stars of Italy 3..

Cavallini was a member of the Independent Board of Directors of Brembo S.p.A., Ansaldo STS, Davide Campari-Milano S.p.A. and Migros T.A.S., the leading distribution company listed on the Istanbul Stock Exchange. In June 2012 he was appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Italian Republic. He graduated cum laude in civil engineering from the Politecnico (Milan) in July 1974 and attended the Master in Business Administration (MBA) course at Harvard Business School, of which he is still a member.

In 1980 he founded Baker Tilly Consulaudit S.p.A. (now Baker Tilly Revisa) Chief Executive Officer until the sale of the shareholding in 2009. From 1980 to 2013 he was Chief Executive Officer of Dr. Arietti e Associati, a company operating in the field of tax and corporate consulting and then he launchedhe Arietti & Partners-M&A International (now Oaklins Arietti s.r.l.), a mergers and acquisitions consulting firm with offices in Turin and Milan, of which he is still Sole Director.

Arietti was promoter and Executive Director of SPAC Industrial Stars of Italy 1 and 2 which led to the listing of LU-Ve S.p.A. and SIT S.p.A. respectively. He was promoter and Executive Director of SPAC Industrial Stars of Italy 3, subsequently merged into Salcef. He graduated cum laude in 1974 in Economics and Commerce from the University of Turin and in 1978 he obtained a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard Business School.

Since 1975 he has been enrolled in the Register of Chartered Accountants of Turin.

From 1979 to 1986 he held operational and administrative roles in Samplast S.p.A., part of the Sangemini Group S.p.A., at the production plant in Tagliacozzo, active in the production of crates and other plastic products.

Since 1986 he has been collaborating with the Salcef Group, where he holds several operational roles, until he was appointed Sole Director of the parent company between 1995 and 2003. Subsequently he played operational roles, in particular for the management of contracts for regional railways. Since December 2016 he has been Manager of SF and has been involved in the development of activities in the field of urban transport, mainly tramway and metro, as well as for local and regional railways. He has a diploma as surveyor.

Graduated in Economics and Commerce with honours from the University of Rome "La Sapienza", she is a chartered accountant and auditor. She holds a master's degree in tax law from LUISS Management in Rome and a highly specialised master's degree from Assonime on the tax profiles of the IAS-IFRS international accounting standards. She has extensive experience in the field of tax consultancy having worked for more than 10 years at the Tax and Corporate Office of the Deloitte network. After more than 10 years with Studio Gianni, Origoni, Grippo Cappelli & Partners, which is scheduled to end on 31 December 2020, she currently heads Studio CDTax in Rome, specialising in tax and accounting matters. Specialised in tax law and experienced in corporate matters, she works in various business sectors in connection with extraordinary transactions and tax planning both at national and international level. She advises a number of listed and unlisted companies on ordinary and extraordinary transactions and has extensive experience in supervisory activities, having held positions for many years as a member of boards of statutory auditors and supervisory bodies pursuant to Legislative Decree no. 231/2001. She was an independent director and chairman of endoconsiliar committees of Nova Re SIIQ S.p.A., a company listed on the Italian Stock Exchange.

She graduated with honours in Law from the University of Camerino and is a member of the Rome Bar. From 1988 to 1990 she worked in the legal department of Girola S.p.A. From 1990 to 2015, she worked at the law firm Cancrini-Piselli, providing extrajudicial advice on public tenders and contracts and judicial advice in civil and administrative matters, with particular regard to issues relating to public works, services and supplies contracts. She is currently a partner in the associated law firm Piselli & Partners, coordinating the civil department and dealing with public contracts, as regards judicial and extrajudicial aspects, ethics and anti-corruption, as well as temporary groupings of companies, project financing and administrative and accounting liability. She is also a speaker at numerous refresher seminars and courses in the field of public procurement.