Marco Bassetti
(Born July 10, 1957 in Varese, Italy) is an Italian manager and entrepreneur.
In the early 1980’s he started working as executive producer for Mondadori’s Rete Quattro, later moving to Mediaset. In 1986 he founded his own production company La Italiana Produzioni, producing light entertainment, game shows, talk shows and commercials. In 1989 he founded Aran, which soon became a leading Italian production company; supplying all major Italian networks with sit-coms, soap operas, light entertainment programs and TV movies.
In October 2007 he returned to Endemol Group as Chief Operating Officer and in August 2009 he was appointed President of the Endemol Group. Endemol is owned by Goldman Sachs, Cyrte and Mediaset