Farewell to Giuseppe Crippa, the Italian Steve Jobs. The family: “He leaves an indelible mark”

Merate (Lecco) – He started in his garage. Like Steve Jobs of Apple. And like him he revolutionized technology and anticipated a future that no one even imagined. From nothing he built a global empire with a turnover of half a billion euros and became among the thirty richest in Italy and the thousand in the world with a personal fortune of over 4 billion euros, even if he didn't even know it. "A visionary and brilliant entrepreneur", is the tribute from the Minister of Economy Giuseppe Giorgetti to Giuseppe Crippa , the founder and president of Technoprobe , a giant of precision microelectronics, who passed away the other day at the age of 90. Giuseppe Crippa, with his probe cards, cards for testing microchips, made it possible to reach levels and explore solutions that would otherwise be unattainable: digital data, 5G, increasingly high-performance smartphones, self-driving cars, intelligent household appliances, computers, devices for the aerospace sector...

“In the grief of his loss, we want to celebrate a life that was fully realized – his wife Mariarosa , his life and work companion, his children Cristiano, Roberto and Monica, and Stefano Felici , CEO of the Spa, remember him –. Giuseppe was a man filled with an inexhaustible passion for technology and innovation, an exceptional entrepreneurial vision and a deep respect and love for people. An extraordinary figure in every respect, human, professional and socially committed. He left an indelible mark”.

Today, in the Technoprobe headquarters in Cernusco Lombardone transformed into a chapel of rest, as in all the other 22 offices spread across three continents and 10 countries, it is a day of mourning and none of the nearly 3,500 employees, 2,000 in Italy alone, are working. The funeral will be celebrated tomorrow, in a strictly private form.

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Born in Robbiate on May 5, 1935, after a brief experience in Breda, he worked in SGSATES, then Stmicroelectronics. Once retired, in 1995, he invested his severance pay in the business he started in 1993 with his son Cristiano and the administrative help of his wife in the garage at home in Merate, founding Technoprobe in '96 for the production of probe cards, the beginning of an extraordinary journey. Today Technoprobe, listed on the stock exchange, is a technological hub with four research centers and over 600 certified patents. Although it is a multinational, its heart is always in the Brianza area of ​​Merate, which Giuseppe Crippa has transformed into a tricolor Silicon Valley.

The Philanthropist

But he was not only an exceptional entrepreneur. He was also a great philanthropist: among his gifts, the vaccination hub during the pandemic, the social garden for disadvantaged workers, machinery and medical devices for the Merate hospital, contributions to volunteers, oratories and schools etc. At Technoprobe even high school interns are paid. “The emblem of modern entrepreneurial humanism” remembers him Mattia Salvion , mayor of Merate, who has proclaimed a day of mourning for the city. “He led progress in the sector and invested generously and altruistically in sustainable development and well-being for the community”, agrees Gennaro Toto, mayor of Cernusco Lombardone. “An exceptional and passionate innovator and tireless worker, but also and above all a generous person who is very attentive to the value of people”, says Marco Campanari, president of Confindustria Lecco and Sondrio.