Valter Mainetti
Valter Mainetti (Rome, 28 October 1947) is an Italian entrepreneur, publisher and business manager, major shareholder of Sorgente Group, president of Società Italiana per Condotte d'Acqua and of Musa Comunicazione. Biography He graduated in 1973 in Political Science at the Sapienza University in Rome, with Aldo Moro as his thesis supervisor. In the mid-seventies he began working in the family businesses, in activity since the beginning of the 1900s in Italy and the United States, operating within the industry of iron construction and real estate. His maternal grandfather, Luigi Binda, had founded a company in New York City in 1919 specialized in the assembly of iron structures (amongst the works carried out there are also the Chrysler Building and the expansion of the New York Stock Exchange). Even his paternal family's company had been involved, since 1910, in the realization of works in iron, and then following World War II began building mechanical and industrial plants, such as the Sincrotrone in Frascati, the Alfa Romeo in Arese, the Steelworks in Terni and Taranto. In 1987 he assumed the leadership of SAGEFIM Partecipazioni Spa, the parent company of the real estate business. The company's activities had gradually been oriented towards social