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Italian businessman, chairman of Tom Ford International

Domenico De Sole (born 1944) is an Italian^[1] businessman, chairman of Tom Ford International, current director of Acamar Partners,^{[citation needed]} former chairman of Sotheby's, and former president and CEO of Gucci Group.

Early life

Domenico De Sole was born in Rome, Italy in 1944, the son of a Royal Italian Army General.^[2][3] He graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome in 1970 with a law degree, and then received a scholarship for Harvard Law School, where he received an LLM degree in 1972.^[4][2]

Career

De Sole worked for leading U.S.

law firms before becoming a partner at the Washington DC firm Patton, Boggs & Blow, specializing in tax law. One of his clients in the early 1980s was Gucci, where he helped with corporate restructuring, and Rodolfo Gucci, a son of the founder Guccio Gucci, enticed De Sole to join in 1984 as