Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti

Brachetti Peretti’s father, Count Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti, spent three decades leading the family’s API Group (Anonima Petroli Italiana). He held the position until 2007, continuing the legacy of his maternal grandfather, Cav. del Lavoro Ferdinando Peretti, who originally founded the firm.^{[citation needed]} His mother, Mila,^[2] worked for more than 30 years in the Red Cross and is the only woman in Italy to carry the military grade of General. His aunt is the jewellery designer Elsa Peretti. He is brother to Ugo Brachetti Peretti, in the family company, and to Benedetta Brachetti Peretti, designer and entrepreneur and Chiara Brachetti Peretti.

After graduating from high school with a diploma in classical studies, Brachetti Peretti enrolled in the School of Business and Economics at the University of Rome (“La Sapienza”). During his studies he served his military service as an officier in the Carabinieri in 1980–1981 in Naples, achieving a Solemn Encomium for the 1980 Irpinia earthquake from the President of Republic.^{[citation needed]}

Brachetti Peretti began his career in 1983 in the family company, the energy group API Anonima Petroli Italiana – IP Italiana Petroli 100% owned by API Holding, of which he is, together with his brothers, 100% shareholder. His father, head of the Group for 30 years, delegated^[3] full powers to Brachetti Peretti in September 2007. He is chairman and CEO of API Holding,^[4] the financial safe of all the API Group companies and chairman of the two sub-holdings of the electric sector, Api Energia and Api Nova Energia. He is also chairman member of the Coordination Committee of the API Group. He moved to London for four years where he initiated the petroleum trading office. He then transferred to Paris for two years, to study administration and finance after an internship at the Paribas Bank; he returned to the headquarters in Rome in the 1990s, taking growing responsibilities in other sectors of the Group.^[5][6][7] In November 2017 Brachetti Peretti, as chairman and CEO of API Holding, oversaw the company's acquisition of Total/Erg which was reported to be valued at around €650m.^[8][9][10]