Vanni Treves

Vanni Treves (born in Florence, Italy in 1940) [cite web
url = http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/movers_and_shakers/executive_movers/article4636075.ece
title = Vanni Treves: the barrister manqué at Korn/Ferry
accessdate = 2008-09-21
date = 30 August 2008
work = Martin Waller
publisher = The Times] is a former Chairman of Channel 4 and a former Senior Partner of City law firm Macfarlanes. [cite web
url = http://www.equitable.co.uk/content/content_8.htm
title = The Board
accessdate = 2008-09-21
date = 2008
work = Equitable Life
publisher = Equitable Life] Treves is also the current Chairman of Equitable Life, hailed as the man who turned the insurer's fortunes around, Chairman of Intertek Group and a Vice Chairman of the NSPCC's FULL STOP campaign. [cite web
url = http://www.nspcc.org.uk/documents/nspcc_achievement_supporters.pdf_wdf40261.pdf
title = Appeals Review
accessdate = 2008-09-21
date = 19 September 2008
work = NSPCC
publisher = NSPCC]

Early life and education

Treves' father was killed during the Second World War in 1944 and his mother therefore remarried to a British businessman, hence the family relocated to Swiss Cottage in London. He won a scholarship to St Paul's School in London before attending the University of Oxford to study jurisprudence. Treves later completed a Fulbright scholarship in the USA at the University of Illinois. He relinquished his dual Italian-British nationality at the age of 36 when he realised that it still made him eligible for national service in the Italian Army. [cite web
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/09/voluntarysector.childprotection
title = Corporate charmer coaxing cash for children's charity
accessdate = 2008-09-21
date = 9 May 2008
work = Philip Inman
publisher = The Guardian]

Macfarlanes and beyond

Following his graduation from University College, Oxford, Treves joined Macfarlanes in 1963 and went on to become a specialist in corporate governance. It was this that led to his appointment as a Non-Executive Director of Saatchi & Saatchi in 1987. During the 1990s he went on to develop a career, as Philip Inman puts it, as a "serial chairman." In 2001 he took up the chairmanship of Equitable Life, determined to resolve its troubles. [cite web
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/09/voluntarysector.childprotection
title = Corporate charmer coaxing cash for children's charity
accessdate = 2008-09-21
date = 9 May 2008
work = Philip Inman
publisher = The Guardian]

Personal life

Treves is married with two sons and a daughter and enjoys " [w] alking, travelling, [and] collecting clocks and watercolours." [cite web
url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/09/voluntarysector.childprotection
title = Corporate charmer coaxing cash for children's charity
accessdate = 2008-09-21
date = 9 May 2008
work = Philip Inman
publisher = The Guardian]

ee also

* Macfarlanes - http://www.macfarlanes.com
* NSPCC - http://www.nspcc.org.uk
* Channel 4 - http://www.channel4.com
* Equitable Life - http://www.equitable.co.uk

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