About

Fabrizio Minneci, chief legal officer at Ferrero, the global consumer goods company privately owned by the Ferrero family, boasts a remarkable legal career of over two decades. Starting out as a trainee in the European Commission in 1991, Minneci spent four years in private practice as an associate at a law firm now known as Bonelli Erede Pappalardo. Most of Minneci’s career, however, has been dedicated to in-house work, with 11 years spent at Ford Europe and eight in his current role at Ferrero. While the department is based in Ferrero’s corporate headquarters in Luxemburg, Minneci does a lot of work with Italy owing to the origins of the company and their strong market position. He currently oversees a legal function of 105 employees (lawyers, paralegals and assistants) with employees from 19 nationalities. In recent years, Minneci has coordinated the department’s gradual expansion into new geographies and new areas of competence with its members now closely associated to the business through representation on various business boards up to the executive committee; Minneci himself is part of the board of directors.