Federico Vecchioni

Born in Padua on 23 May 1967. Married, with two daughters.
He holds a degree in Agricultural Sciences from the University of Florence. After graduating, he worked in Tuscany, restructuring his family’s historic farm, Il Cicalino, using a technological and managerial approach; today it stands as a model of diversified management with close links to the market. In 1992, he began his trade union career within the General Confederation of Italian Agriculture, first as president of the farmers’ association for the province of Grosseto and then, from 2004, as President of the national organisation. From 2002 to 2009, he was President of the Grosseto Chamber of Commerce. From 2001 to 2011, he served as a full member of COPA-COGECA in Brussels, the body representing major European agricultural organisations and cooperatives. In January 2009, he was elected Chairman of Agriventure S.p.A., part of the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, a company specialising in supporting strategic investments and providing professional consultancy services to businesses operating in the agribusiness sector. He held this position until July 2014, when Agriventure S.p.A. was merged into Mediocredito Italiano, upon which he was appointed Chairman of Mediocredito Italiano’s Agribusiness Committee.

He is a member of the Georgofili, Italy’s oldest agricultural academy, of which he was Vice-President until 2016.

In 2014, the Bank of Italy put the historic company Bonifiche Ferraresi – already listed on the stock exchange – up for sale. Faced with strong interest from foreign groups, Federico Vecchioni successfully organised and coordinated leading Italian entrepreneurs, institutional investors and credit institutions, who put together a winning bid, enabling BF to commence operations; in 2017, he secured the company’s listing on EURONEXT in Milan. In the years that followed, as Chief Executive Officer of the holding company BF SpA, he launched the ‘Le Stagioni d’Italia’ brand, which is now available in large-scale retail outlets with numerous products of exclusively Italian origin. With assets totalling over 10,000 hectares spread across central and northern Italy and Sardinia, the company ranks among the leading large Italian agricultural enterprises active in the production and marketing of agricultural and agri-food products. Today, through its subsidiaries, BF operates in various sectors of the agro-industrial supply chain and in the market for services and products for farmers. At its headquarters in Jolanda di Savoia, BF has launched ‘BF Educational’, a university campus for the training and specialisation of young people in agronomic subjects, with a view to their employment within the Group and at partner companies.
It presented BF’s new Business Plan, covering the period up to 2027, with the aim of growing the agro-industrial and seed sectors and, in particular, the Agricultural Consortia (CAI) – Italy’s most widespread network of organisations serving farmers – of which it is also Managing Director. In accordance with the aforementioned Plan, he is launching an internationalisation strategy to export the Group’s supply chain model and know-how in both the food and non-food sectors, overseeing all stages of production and trade, through the establishment of BF INTERNATIONAL BEST FIELDS BEST FOOD, based in London, of which he is CEO.

To this end, the BF INTERNATIONAL project also embraces objectives of economic and social development, drawing on strategic partners and creating appropriate synergies with local governments.