Prada Names New Chief People Officer Rosa Santamaria, Completing Executive Recast

Valentino’s chief human sources officer Rosa Santamaria Maurizio is ready to decamp to Prada, the corporate advised BoF Wednesday.

As chief folks officer, Santamaria Maurizio will “actively take part within the cultural and organisational change of Prada Group,” the Milan-based vogue firm stated.

The chief joins a Prada C-suite that has been nearly fully overhauled: Final 12 months, the corporate named a brand new group chief govt officer (former Luxottica chief Andrea Guerra) and a brand-level CEO for its flagship label (Gianfranco D’Attis, employed from Dior), as the corporate’s founding household seeks to the transition to its subsequent era. It additionally introduced in a brand new chief monetary officer (former Goldman Sachs’ govt Andrea Bonini).

Designer-owner Miuccia Prada continues to guide Prada’s artistic output alongside co-creative director Raf Simons, whereas her husband and enterprise companion Patrizio Bertelli is now govt chairman. Each relinquished their roles as co-CEOs. Their son Lorenzo Bertelli, who steers varied initiatives together with advertising and marketing, communications and sustainability, is an govt director being positioned because the group’s future chief.

Design director Fabio Zambernardi can also be planning to exit the group at year-end, BoF reported Sept. 2.

At Valentino, Santamaria Maurizio labored to revamp the corporate’s folks organisation and inside tradition alongside CEO Jacopo Venturini, who sought to determine and reinforce “couture” values and combine them all through the corporate. Santamaria Maurizio additionally put in place extra structured processes for expertise acquisition, administration, and compensation.

Earlier than becoming a member of Valentino, Santamaria Maurizio spent 14 years at American Categorical in varied human sources roles.

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