Joey Saputo
Joey Saputo | |
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Born | Giuseppe Saputo September 25, 1964 Montreal, Canada |
Occupation | Businessman |
Spouse | Carmie Saputo |
Children | 4 |
Parent | Lino Saputo |
Giuseppe "Joey" Saputo (born September 25, 1964) is a Canadian businessman, the president of
Family
Saputo is the son of
Career
Saputo Inc.
In 1985 Saputo began working for the family business, Saputo Inc., a dairy processing company founded by his father Lino Saputo in 1954. In 1990, he was promoted to president and chief operating officer of the Dairy Products Division for the United States. After occupying various positions within the organization, he was named Senior Vice President of Commercial and Business Development in January 2004.[1]
CF Montréal
Saputo was the first president of Montreal Impact in 1992 when the Saputo Group was the team's sole owner. Under his leadership, the club was sold to a group of
By 2007, he had left the Saputo Group in order to focus on the Impact. In 2012, he led the club's entry into
Bologna F.C.
Saputo is the majority shareholder[
Other activities
In addition to his work at the Saputo Group and CF Montreal, Saputo has also been involved in managing his family's assets, consolidated under Jolina Capital ("the Saputo family company"),[6] an asset management company where he was president from March 2001 to January 2004.[7] Jolina Capital is a shareholder—and frequently a majority shareholder—in companies spanning sectors as diverse as food, transportation, softwood lumber, and real estate.[1]
Saputo is currently on the board of directors of
Philanthropy
Saputo is involved in the Montreal community and serves on the boards of the Sainte-Justine University Hospital Centre Foundation, PROCURE, an organization that seeks to prevent and cure prostate cancer,[9] and the Italian-Canadian Community Foundation (his father immigrated from Montelepre, Sicily, in the 1950s).[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Official Biography – Joey Saputo". Montreal Impact. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "Ownership | Montreal Impact". Impactmontreal.com. Retrieved October 25, 2012.
- ^ Boehm, Charles (January 14, 2021). "CF Montréal explain rebrand: "To make an impact, we need to retire the Impact"". Major League Soccer.
- ^ C.C.I.A.A.(in Italian)
- ^ "Joe Tacopina è il Presidente del Bologna" (Press release) (in Italian). Bologna F.C. 1909. October 15, 2014. Retrieved November 18, 2017.
- ^ "Dairy food producer Saputo increases quarterly earnings". The Globe and Mail. November 7, 2012. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "Company Overview of Jolina Capital Inc". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "Board of Directors". Investor Relations. TransForce. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "Board of Directors". PROCURE. Retrieved January 2, 2014.
- ^ "Board of Fiduciaries". Who We Are. Italian-Canadian Community Foundation. Retrieved January 2, 2014.