“We are saddened by the loss of Pier Francesco Forleo,” said Rai Marinella Soldi President and Roberto Sergio CEO
Rai and the TV world in general woke up in shock this morning: Pier Francesco Forleo died suddenly at the age of 51The Sports Legal Director of Raiknown in the gossip chronicles as the companion of Elizabeth Ferracinithe daughter of Mara Venier. The news broke among insiders just after dawn, and confirmation came in mid-morning Andrew Vianello, journalist and TV face, was appointed General Manager of San Marino RTV a few days ago. “I wake up to the terrible news that a great manager of Rai, good, respectable and full of life, Pier Forleo, is gone. he was a friend We called him the Prince because of his natural elegance. Knowing how to live and work: a talent of few. Close to Elisabetta,” wrote the former director of Radio Rai1.
Pier Francesco Forleo was born in Florence in 1962 and graduated in economics and commerce. He has built his entire career in the telecommunications industry. Start at Datamat SpA, before moving to the Planning and Control Directorate of the IRI until 1997. After teaching business administration at the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, In 2004 he switched to Rai in the finance and planning department as head of the radio and staff structure. And from there begins his rise to success. In September 2006 he was appointed Purchasing Manager, from 2010 he will coordinate the application of Public Procurement Code in corporate purchasing processes, while from March 2015 he held one of the key roles in the company: will the head of the director of the department of sports rights.
He has also been a member of the EBU’s Sports Rights Committee and Sports Rights Assembly since April 2015. “We are devastated by the loss of Pier Francesco Forleo,” said the Rai president Marinella Soldi and the manager Robert Sergio. “An impeccable professional with solid and varied professional experience, he has been a point of reference in the important sports rights area of our company for years. Not only will we miss his great ability to analyze and manage complex financial and managerial issues, but his special human figure. Easygoing and elegant, Pier Francesco Forleo was always capable of winning team play, to the great benefit of the company and of all his colleagues, whose best qualities he was able to motivate and help them to develop. Our thoughts and condolences go to our family and those of the entire company“.