Francesco Milleri

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, EssilorLuxottica SA

Search every verified Francesco Milleri interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Francesco Milleri, Chairman and CEO of EssilorLuxottica, stated at a July 2022 presentation of a partnership with the Polytechnic University of Milan that the company is an international group with nearly 200,000 employees in 140 countries, and that nearly one-third of its global workforce and half of its Milan employees are under 35. He described the company as an "open multinational" with Italy and France at its core, and said its heart remains in Agordo, Paris, and Milan with complementary skills. Milleri said the company is an absolute leader in its market and has inherited from its president an approach of prioritizing consumers, clients, and partners before profit, a philosophy he stated he will follow as long as he leads the group. He noted that the company invested in bringing electronics into the eyewear channel, rather than moving products like Ray-Ban Stories into the electronics channel, to help the optical market grow and compete in a future scenario. He added that the group's mission is to grow the market and support its partners.