Franzo Grande Stevens

[5] Grande Stevens lived his adolescence in Naples,[6] where he obtained his liceo classico diploma and jurisprudence degree at the Federico II University, where he was a pupil of Alessandro Galante Garrone [it].

Having exhausted the experience of the apprenticeship alongside the lawyer Francesco Barra Caracciolo di Basciano, he moved to Turin, where he became a consultant of Gianni Agnelli, the president of Fiat.

[14] In August 2003, Grande Stevens succeeded Caissotti di Chiusano, who had died on 31 July 2003, as chairman of the board of directors of Juventus, the Agnelli family-owned association football club in Turin.

[15] Grande Stevens held the position until he was replaced by Giovanni Cobolli Gigli, amid the Calciopoli scandal, in 2006; he was made honorary chairman (Italian: presidente onorario) of the club including former Juventus player Giampiero Boniperti.

[34] The trial, which began on 26 March 2009, saw him involved for the equity swap of IFI–IFIL and Exor that in 2005 allowed the Agnelli heirs to maintain control of Fiat;[35][36] according to the prosecution, this was kept hidden for many months to the Consob and the market.

According to the Turin investigating judge, Francesco Moroni, Grande Stevens had to answer for information rigging (Italian: aggiotaggio informativo), or microcap stock fraud.

[38][39] On 21 February 2013, in the appeal process, Grande Stevens was sentenced to 1 year and 4 months, after Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation annulled the acquittal.

When Marchionne died in 2018, there were talks of a shoulder surgery but many had assumed that lung cancer was behind his death,[47][48][49] including Grande Stevens, who wrote a letter in the Corriere della Sera.