She has been managing director of the Exor Group since 2016 and chair of CNH Industrial since 2018.
Having sailed around the world with her family as a child, she studied at Somerville College, Oxford and King's College, Cambridge.
Her early career was spent as a civil servant in HM Treasury.
She then joined McKinsey & Company, where she rose to become a senior partner before leaving for Exor in 2016.