 Faustino Piaggio

Faustino Piaggio (born 15 February 1844 in Quinto al Mare, Genoa), was an Italian industrialist who also became a pioneer of the Latin American oil industry with his businesses based in Peru.Faustino G. Piaggio created the Peruvian oil industry almost 10 years before Standard Oil arrived in the area, and made it the oldest in Latin America.