Born in Trento in 1927, Carlo Orlandini grew up in Verona and graduated in law in Bologna.
 
When WW2 ended he was only 18 and had served as a volunteer in the Resistance Movement. His many adventures of that period included missions with units of the 2nd SAS regiment; he crossed enemy lines six times.

He and his wife Mariella had five children.

Fairly early in his working life he joined IBM in Verona. He later worked for the company in Germany, Paris (four years as manager for special projects), Rome as consultant to the Italian Finance Ministry, followed by five years in New York at IBM’s international headquarters.

After 20 years with IBM he moved on to the Montedison Group and the retail sector, where he remained for 17 years. He founded Euromercato and, as its president, made it Italy’s leading group in the area of hypermarkets and shopping centres. He resigned from the job a few months after the company was bought by Silvio Berlusconi.

He set up a consultancy with SEIC (Studio Orlandini), then worked for eight years in the public health sector as administrator of four hospitals and, subsequently, of the Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, with thousands of employees and associates, and with major developments to his credit.

Currently he is a non-executive director of some companies, president or consultant of others.
 
A role close to his heart is that of president of the ASPHI Foundation which for 26 years has developed ICT projects to assist the disabled; he is now also president of a foundation he started in Patagonia, for the charitable work of Don Mazzi.
 
And he continues to feel affection for the British Chamber of Commerce: he no longer recalls exactly when he became a member but it was many moons and Consuls ago. In the past he has been a Vice President and today he is proud to be an Honorary Councillor.

In his (little) spare time he cultivates his garden.