Aldo Miccio
Quick Facts
Biography
Cataldo (Aldo) Miccio (born c.1971) is a New Zealand former local-body politician. He was the Mayor of Nelson for one term from 2010 to 2013.
Background
Miccio is married to Kimberley, a former Sydney hotel reservations sales manager, and has three children. He was born in Nelson in about 1971, lived in Tahunanui, is a second generation Nelsonian, and was educated at St Joseph's primary school and Nelson College. He graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree (marketing and management). His parents are Nelson-born Cristina Romano and Italian-born Raffaele Miccio, a fish and chip shop owner, restaurateur and market gardener. His maternal grandfather, Cataldo Romano, migrated to Nelson from Massa Lubrence, Italy in the 1920s. Massa Lubrence is the same place where Miccio's father was born.
Miccio speaks the Naples dialect.
Career
In 1993 Miccio was chief representative in China for a multinational textile company. and in 1994 became in inaugural member of the New Zealand Shanghai business forum.
Miccio moved to Australia and in 1997 became General Manager of the clothing division an Australian giftware company. In 1998 he began his own clothing and giftware company, Bissi, which now has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and Xiamen, China. In 2009 he sold Bissi to a Chinese company, but remains a Director. He met and married his wife while working in Australia.
He is also a Director of AAPI Limited, and his cousin Anthony Romano is the other Director of the company.
Miccio is beneficiary of the April Trust, was a trustee of the Summit Nelson Tasman Rescue Helicopter until 2016 and the Nelson Bays Community Foundation until 2011, and a district executive of Nelson Bays Football.
Political career
Miccio returned to Nelson in 2002 and became a Nelson City Councillor in 2007 (serving one term) and was elected Mayor in 2010 at the age of 39. He was defeated by Rachel Reese at the next election in 2013.
In 2005 Miccio was winner of Papal award for outstanding contributions to product development and international distribution.
Film
Miccio made a cameo appearance in the film Kiwi Flyer.