Guido Della Frera
Founder & CEO – GDF Group
Guido Della Frera is the founder and Ceo of GRUPPO DELLA FRERA SpA, an innovative entrepreneurial reality – founded in 1990 – that operates in different sectors: tourism-hotel, through its subsidiaries (GDF Hotel srl; Venezia Capitol srl; Hotel Cristallo srl), real estate (Gdf System srl), fast food (BK Food srl) and – until the sale of activities in 2018 – also in the social-health sector (Polo Geriatrico Riabilitativo).
He is also involved in social work through the initiatives of the Della Frera ETS Foundation, which he chairs.
Since 2008 he has been awarded the honor of Cavaliere della Repubblica.
In March 2018 he was elected to the Italian Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies.
Guido Della Frera began his entrepreneurial activity in 1984 as an administrator of service cooperatives.
In 1999 he founded Polo Geriatrico Riabilitativo, a company operating in Milan in the social welfare sector of managing RSAs for the elderly and hospital rehabilitation facilities with more than 420 beds.
In 2006 he acquired its first hotel (Grand Hotel Villa Torretta) a 17th-century aristocratic villa restored and relaunched on an international standing of high hospitality.
Over the years, the Group has intensified investment in the hotel tourism sector by opening new hotels in northern Italy.
In 2014 GDF HOTEL SRL, a Group company, was established to handle the franchising management of Hilton and Accor hotels.
Currently, the Group directly manages 10 hotels with a total of more than 1. 200 beds: Hilton Turin Centre (5 stars – 175 rooms) in Turin, Hilton Garden Inn Milan North (4 stars -193 rooms) in Milan; Grand Hotel Villa Torretta Curio Collection by Hilton (4 stars L- 77 rooms) in Sesto San Giovanni (Mi); Double Tree by Hilton Milan Malpensa (4 stars – 246 rooms) Solbiate Olona (Va); Hilton Garden Inn Milan Malpensa (4 stars-143 rooms) in Somma Lombardo (Va); Hotel IBIS Milano Fiera (4 stars-120 rooms) in Lainate (Mi); Novotel Brescia 2 (4 stars-120 rooms) Brescia; DoubleTree by Hilton (4 stars-137 rooms) in Brescia; and Hilton Garden Inn Venice Mestre San Giuliano (4 stars-136 rooms). in Venice. The Group also operates a boutique hotel the Hotel Cristallo (4 stars -37 rooms) in Ponte di Legno (Bs).
GDF Group SpA is also active in the hotel and fast food segment. All of the Group’s hotels have a restaurant space also open to the public.
GDF GROUP also operates in the fast food sector through the company BK FOOD srl founded in 2010, with two outlets in Dormelletto (No) and Cislago (Va). Also recently opened is a bar in Seregno (MB).
Guido Della Frera is also active in real estate. The Holding Company’s real estate sector is managed by GDF SYSTEM srl, a company, established in 2001, that carries out develops and manages real estate initiatives and construction activities. The company’s activity has been concentrated in the real estate sector through the creation of residential, tertiary and commercial initiatives in Milan, Brescia and Lainate and through the leasing and administration of real estate (the hotel complex “Villa Torretta”).
Since 2013 he has been collaborating with Energheia Impresa Sociale srl, an entity accredited with the Lombardy Region for both training and active labor policies, to build concrete training and job placement opportunities especially for young people.
Since 2015 Guido Della Frera has been active in the field of education, with the establishment of the company Atena Impresa Sociale, of which he is president, to manage the Liceo Classico and Istituto Tecnico Dehon based in Monza.
In 2024 the Della Frera ETS Foundation was born, inspired by Christian Catholic principles and values, which has as its statutory purpose the promotion and development of a humanistic culture that fosters the integral well-being of the person, with particular attention to the intellectual, moral and spiritual growth of the community.