Andrea Della Valle was born on 26 September 1965 at Casette d'Ete, in the municipality of Sant'Elpidio a Mare in the Marche, the son of the shoe manufacturer Dorino Della Valle and twelve years younger than his brother Diego. He is vice-chairman of Tod's, the group his grandfather Filippo's workshop grew into, and Italian Wikipedia also describes him as its managing director, holding directly and indirectly about a quarter of the capital.
He took over day-to-day operations in the late 1990s. Time described him in 2006 as "the goalie to Diego's striker", the introverted power broker behind his brother's public persona. Through the family's holding companies the brothers hold stakes in RCS MediaGroup, Piaggio and Mediobanca, among others, and Forbes has listed them among the world's billionaires since March 2011. The group, which also owns Roger Vivier, Hogan and Fay, paid for the restoration of the Colosseum in Rome.
After the family bought ACF Fiorentina, which had gone bankrupt under its previous owner, he was the club's president from 2004 until 24 September 2009 and honorary president until 6 June 2019, when it was sold to Rocco Commisso. Under investigation from 2016 over alleged tax evasion and false invoicing in player transfers, he was acquitted with other executives by the Naples court in March 2023, at the prosecutors' own request.
In 2022 he joined Diego in a first, unsuccessful offer to buy out Tod's minority shareholders. In 2024 the brothers teamed up with the private equity firm L Catterton, backed by LVMH, to take the company private at a valuation of about $1.5 billion; when Tod's was delisted and John Galantic was named chief executive, he remained vice-chairman.
Italian Wikipedia says he holds about 25% of Tod's; French Wikipedia says 3%. English Wikipedia says the brothers co-owned Fiorentina from 2002.