Fashion career profile
Gianluca Tagliabue
Gianluca A. Tagliabue is a Milan-born business executive and Group Chief Executive Officer of Ermenegildo Zegna Group. The company’s current governance profile records his appointment as Group CEO and Executive Director and traces a career across luxury, eyewear and strategy consulting. He joined Zegna in January 2016 as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Business Development, then served as Group CFO and Chief Operating Officer from January 2020 through December 2025. Before that, he held senior finance and strategy responsibilities at Oakley Group from 2012 to 2015 and two international business-development roles at Luxottica between 2010 and 2012. At Value Partners, he advanced from Senior Manager to Partner between 2001 and 2010; the company also notes earlier work at Gemini Consulting without supplying dates. Born in Milan in 1968, he holds a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University. His record concerns group-level leadership and finance, not the design direction or standalone financial results of any one Zegna-owned label.
- Role
- Group CEO and Executive Director, Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- Nationality
- Italian
- Age
- 58
- Ermenegildo Zegna Group — Group CFO and Chief Operating Officer2020–2025 · former
- Ermenegildo Zegna Group — CFO and Head of Business Development2016–2019 · former
- Oakley Group — CFO and SVP, Strategy and Shared Services2012–2015 · former
- Luxottica Group — Group Business Development Director2011–2012 · former
- Current role: Group CEO and Executive Director, Ermenegildo Zegna GroupThe company’s governance profile identifies Tagliabue as the current Group Chief Executive Officer. · Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- Zegna Group role: Group CFO and Chief Operating Officer, 2020–2025Served from January 2020 through December 2025. · Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- Finance and strategy: CFO and SVP, Strategy and Shared Services, Oakley Group, 2012–2015Based in California before joining Zegna. · Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- Business development: Luxottica Group, 2010–2012International Business Development Director (Retail, Sun & Luxury), then Group Business Development Director. · Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- Strategy consulting: Value Partners, 2001–2010Senior Manager from 2001 to 2005 and Partner from 2005 to 2010. · Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- Education: Business Administration, Bocconi UniversityBorn in Milan, Italy, in 1968; the company does not specify the degree type. · Ermenegildo Zegna Group
- 2001 — Joins Value Partners as Senior ManagerBegins the dated consulting experience listed in the Zegna governance biography.
- 2005 — Becomes Partner at Value PartnersThe company dates his Partner role from 2005 to 2010.
- 2012 — Moves to Oakley GroupServes as CFO and Senior Vice President for Strategy and Shared Services through 2015.
- 2016 — Joins Ermenegildo Zegna GroupAppointed CFO and Head of Business Development in January.
- 2020 — Takes Group CFO and COO responsibilitiesServes in both roles from January 2020 through December 2025.