Carlo Salteri

Carlo Salteri (23 October 192012 October 2010) was a prominent Australian businessman, mechanical engineer, founder of Tenix and co-founder of Transfield.

Background and early years The eldest child of Giuseppe and Flavia Salteri, Carlo Salteri was born on 23 October 1920 and raised in a well-heeled family in Milan, Italy. In 1940 he commenced an engineering degree at Politecnico before being called up by the Italian army a year later, where he served as a junior artillery officer.

The pair stood down as joint managing directors in 1989 in favour of their eldest sons, Paul Salteri and Marco Belgiorno-Zegna. Tenix sold its defence business to BAE Systems in June 2008,

Salteri established the Tenix Foundation to provide assistance for education, research and underprivileged children.