Gerolamo Caccia Dominioni is from Milan and has built much of his professional career in the worlds of business, music and entertainment, holding senior positions at major international organisations. In recent years, he has placed his experience and expertise at the service of the social sector. He is President of Fondazione iBVA and Fondazione Kramer, two long-established Milanese organisations committed to tackling poverty and inequality, providing support and creating opportunities for greater independence. His commitment stems from the belief that, alongside individual responsibility, there is a collective responsibility towards the community, and above all towards those at risk of being left behind.

Vittorio Colao is Vice Chairman EMEA and Board member of General Atlantic, non-Executive Director of Verizon, and Executive Trustee of Bocconi University. He chaired the Remuneration Committee of Unilever PLC (2015-2021).  He was Minister for Technology Innovation and Digital transition and Delegate authority for Space for the Italian Government with PM Draghi (2021-2022).  In 2024 Vittorio contributed to the Draghi Report ‘The Future of Competitiveness in Europe’.  In 2020 he chaired Italy’s Post Covid recovery committee for Prime Minister Conte. He was CEO of Vodafone Group (2008-2018). He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. Received an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Law, at Bath University (2024). Received the Alumni Achievement Award from Harvard Business School (2025). He is a reserve officer of the Italian Carabinieri.

Claudia De Lillo, also known as Elasti, is a journalist, writer and radio host. For 11 years, she woke up at 4 a.m. to host Radio2’s morning show at dawn. She writes about lifestyle and society for various publications, including Repubblica, Il Venerdì, F and Donna Moderna. She also works as a speaker and moderator at public and private events held in theatres, festivals, institutions and companies.
After graduating in Political Economy from Bocconi University, with a thesis in Financial Mathematics, she worked for twenty years as a reporter at Reuters, where she was Head of the Finance desk.
She was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic for creating the character of Elasti, an emblem of the difficult balance between work and family life and the protagonist of the blog nonsolomamma.com.
She is the author of several books – novels and non-fiction – published by Mondadori, Einaudi, Tea and Feltrinelli. Her eighth and most recent book, Esseri Maschi (Feltrinelli), was published last October.
She is very active on social media, with Instagram being her favourite platform, and runs Elastiverso, a space on Substack where she offers a daily press review in podcast format, a newsletter, regular yoga sessions, and organises book clubs and meetings with authors.
She has three children, all boys, and an economist husband who works in London and who, when he left to study in England, told her: “I’ll stay for a year and then come back.” Thirty years have passed, and he still hasn’t returned.

Paola Mungo is a senior executive with extensive experience in the international financial sector, where she has held top-level positions, first within the Zurich Group, where she began her career, and later within the Azimut Group, a publicly listed company and part of the FTSE MIB index. She served for many years as General Manager and subsequently as Chief Executive Officer of the Group.
She is currently an Adjunct Professor at Bocconi University, where she teaches on financial markets and intermediaries, and at Università Cattolica in Milan, where she teaches Sustainable Finance, Governance and Sustainability, and Leadership, while also coordinating Master’s programmes and specialised courses.
She also has extensive and distinguished experience as a Board Member of Italian and international companies, both listed and privately held. She has long served as an Independent Director on the Boards of several organisations, including Compagnia de’ Frescobaldi SpA, where she is Vice President, and the publicly listed Dexelance SpA, where she is Lead Independent Director.
She is also a member of several Scientific Committees and Advisory Boards and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker at national and international conferences.
Passionate about art and design, music and classical ballet, which she practised for many years, as well as innovation rooted in tradition, she strongly believes that bringing together different fields of knowledge can generate significant value.

Since January 2023, Donatella Sciuto has been Rector of Politecnico di Milano, where she is a Full Professor of Computer Engineering. She graduated in Electronic Engineering from the same university, and holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder (USA), as well as a Master in Business Administration from Bocconi University.
She is the co-author of more than 400 scientific papers and 4 international patents. She has served as President of the IEEE Council of Electronic Design Automation, an international scientific organisation. She is a member of Academia Europaea and has been named an IEEE Fellow, IBM Women Leader in Artificial Intelligence and Inspiring Fifty Italy.
She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Italy’s Superior Council and serves on the boards of several foundations and listed and unlisted companies.

Since 1957, IP a FD, DAI, Doctor of Nursing and Midwifery Sciences. She is committed to continuing professional development and has also obtained several additional specialisations. She has professional experience in care, organisational and managerial roles across the preventive, therapeutic, rehabilitative and palliative sectors, both in hospital and community settings and on maritime routes.
For many years, she devoted herself to basic nursing education. Former Director and lecturer at the Scuola per II.PP. di Sarzana, from 1980, when nursing education was introduced into universities, she continued her work with the University of Genoa as a coordinator and adjunct professor for the Nursing degree programme at ASL 5 in La Spezia.
After retiring in 2002, while also speaking at professional conferences, she continued teaching for around three years in nursing degree programmes and Master’s courses at various university institutions, including those in Florence, Rome and Turin. She has also carried out volunteer work in Italy and abroad.
For several decades, she has been engaged in historical research into healthcare and nursing, collaborating with CISO (Centro Italiano di Storia Sanitaria e Ospitaliera), FNOPI (Federazione Nazionale Professioni Infermieristiche), CNAI (Consociazione Nazionale Associazione Infermieri Italiani) and, in particular, ANIN (Associazione Infermieri di Neuroscienze), while promoting awareness of the work of Cristina Trivulzio di Belgioioso.
She continues to be actively involved in movements and non-governmental organisations working for the rights and freedom of peoples, environmental protection and the promotion of health. She also collaborates with “LIBERA”, which works against the activities of organised crime groups of all kinds and promotes the public use of assets confiscated from the mafia.

She has over 30 years of experience in strategic consulting, human resources and organisational development at The Boston Consulting Group, Pfizer and Vodafone Italia. Her first start-up was Valore D, where she served as General Manager for five years. In 2014, she co-founded Jointly Il welfare condiviso, now Marsh Jointly, a leading Italian company providing integrated services for the wellbeing of people and organisations. She is a member of the AIWA Executive Board and an Independent Director of SECO SpA.