Research notes
Diego Ioverno was born in 1974 in Bologna, graduated with honors from the University of Bologna in Mechanical Engineering in 2000, and joined Ferrari that same year. He started in the R&D department and gearbox assembly, became Head of Car Assembly in 2008, Head of Trackside Operations in 2010, Team Manager from 2015–2017, moved to the factory-side role of Head of Car Operations in 2018, returned to trackside in 2021 as Chief Car Operations Engineer, and in July 2023 (from the Belgian Grand Prix) took over as Sporting Director from Laurent Mekies, who moved to AlphaTauri. His role covers Chassis Operations and Sporting Director.
More operations- and competition-execution-focused, but still within the car engineering organizational chain.