Paolo Pininfarina

Paolo Pininfarina (August 28 1958) is an italian engineer, designer and businessman, known as the manager of theworld famous Pininfarina design company of his hometown Torino (2008).

He studied mechanical engineeringat Politecnico di Torino before joining his father Sergio Pininfarina's firm (1982), as trainee stationed abroad with Cadillac and Honda (1983), and then as quality manager of the Cadillac Allanté project (1984-86) and program manager of the "Engineering GM 200" at General Motors (1987-89) which led to
Chevrolet Lumina APV, Oldsmobile Silhouette and Pontiac Trans Sport. Paolo Pininfarina became the firstmanager of the new "Pininfarina Extra S.r.l." (1987) which does design for non-automotive industries (furniture, appliances, maritime), while being in the upper management of the automobile firm as well (board member 1988, deputy chairman 2006) wherehe now is chairman (2008), succeeding his brother Andrea Pininfarina (1957-2008).Being a well known designer, he has been member in the steering board of Turin's Istituto Europeo di Design (1996-2004) andis "emeritus participating founder" of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale of Milan.