CEO, Cassina
Luca Fuso has extensive managerial experience in international companies. His last role was Chief Brand Officer of Ferrari where he reported to Sergio Marchionne. Previously, after various experiences in marketing roles in multinational consumer goods companies, he spent 10 years in the Diesel group covering positions of increasing responsibility until he became Managing Director in 2004. From 2006, he was CEO and Managing Director of B&B Italia SpA and, following this, Head of the Licensed and Proprietary Brands Divisions of Safilo Group. Luca started working with Cassina at the end 2018 and today covers the position of CEO.
CEO, Reply
Tatiana Rizzante is the CEO of Reply, serving on its Board of Directors, and one of its founding members. In Reply’s early years, Tatiana handled the creation and development of competencies in the most innovative technology fields, such as value-added services for telcos, new media and new digital channels. Over the years, her role has grown to cover ever-increasing responsibilities within the Group, assuming direct responsibility for various lines of business. In 2006, she was made Chief Executive Officer as a result of her vast experience in Innovation Management, becoming responsible for the full range of services offered by the Group and for building the Reply presence in Europe, US, Brazil and China. Before joining Reply, she worked for CSELT (today Tlab) where she carried out testing and research on technologies and Internet services for the public. Since February 2020, Tatiana has held the position of independent council member at GEDI Gruppo Editoriale S.p.a. and, in April 2022, she was made independent council member at Borsa Italiana. Tatiana gained a Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino.
CEO and General Manager, Banca Generali
Gian Maria Mossa has been CEO of Banca Generali SpA since 20 March 2017. Graduated in economics and business, he gained significant experience in RAS first in the Risk Management & Asset Allocation sector, then moving to the commercial area and marketing. In 2006, he joined Banca Fideuram as Product Development Manager, assuming positions of increasing responsibility up to the position of Marketing Manager and Head of Commercial and Private Development, reporting directly to the CEO. He joined Banca Generali in July 2013 as Co-General Manager, before being appointed General Manager in April 2016 with responsibility for the company.
Creator
“Political, ethical, subversive, ecological, humorous: this is how I see my duty as a creator.” Philippe Starck. Despite more than 10 000 creations - completed or in the making - his global fame and his tireless protean inventiveness, he never forgets the essential. Philippe Starck has a mission and a vision: creation, whatever shape it takes, must make life better for the largest number of people possible. Starck believes this highly poetic, political, rebellious, benevolent, pragmatic and subversive duty must be borne by all and he resumes it with the humor that has accompanied his approach since the earliest days: “No one is forced to be a genius, but everyone has to take part.” This citizen of the world, who considers it his duty to share his ethical and subversive vision of a fairer planet, creates unconventional places and objects whose purpose is to be “good” before being beautiful. From individual windmills, to a smart thermostat, electric bikes, or innovative and ecological wooden prefabricated houses – soon to be followed by solar boats and space tourism habitation modules, his technological miracles are vectors of democratic ecology, focused on action and a respect for the future of both humans and nature. Inventor, creator, architect, designer, artistic director, Philippe Starck is all of the above, but above all he is a man of honesty, in the purest tradition of the Renaissance artists.
Architect, Designer and Art Director at Cassina
Patricia Urquiola studied architecture and design at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and completed her studies at Politecnico di Milano where she graduated under the mentorship of Achille Castiglioni. In Spain, she was awarded the Golden Medal for Merits in Art and received the Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic. Patricia Urquiola has been Cassina’s Art Director since 2015 and works with the most important design companies, including Flos, Moroso, Driade, GAN, Andreu World, Glas Italia, Kettal, Kvadrat and international groups such as Haworth, BMW, Boeing, Louis Vuitton, Missoni, Mandarin Oriental Hotels, Four Seasons, Marriott Group, Starbucks, Ferrari and Swarovski. Urquiola is part of the advisory board of Politecnico di Milano and Triennale Milano Museum. She taught Interior Design at Domus Academy Milano and has given lectures at Harvard University, Rhode Island School of Design, Michigan University, Shenkar School of Engineering and Design in Israel, Alvar Aalto Academy in Finland, State University and Università Bocconi in Milan. She has also given talks at countless cultural events, such as Design Shanghai, Design Week in Istanbul, the Expressive Design Conference at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany, the Bloomberg Design Conference in San Francisco, Festarch Perugia, Festival della Mente in Sarzana and Mantova Literature Festival, among others. Patricia Urquiola’s work is exhibited in many art and design museums around the world, including the MoMa in New York, the Decorative Arts Museum in Paris, the Triennale Museum in Milan, the Design Museum in Monaco, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Vitra Design Museum in Basel, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Design Museum in Zurich, the Stedelijk Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam, the Design Museum of Barcelona and the Philadelphia Art Museum. She has been named Designer of the Year by Wallpaper, Elle Decor International, AD España and Architecktur und Wohnen, among other magazines.
Designer
Formafantasma is a research-based design studio investigating the ecological, historical, political and social forces shaping the discipline of design today. Whether designing for a client or developing self-initiated projects, the studio applies the same rigorous attention to context, processes and details. Formafantasma’s analytical nature translates into meticulous visual outcomes, products and strategies.
Co-Founder Sweet Capital, King.com and Pten Research
Riccardo was a co-founder of King and continued to serve as company Chairman until 2020, having served as CEO from 2003 until 2019. King has 271m active users playing games across its 200 mobile, social and web titles, including hit franchise Candy Crush Saga. Riccardo led King’s listing on the NYSE in 2014, and in 2016 it was acquired by Activision Blizzard for $5.9bn. Riccardo is co-founder of tech angel fund Sweet Capital and founder of the PTEN Research Foundation for rare genetic diseases.
Olympic Champion in alpine skiing
Sofia Goggia was born in Bergamo on November 15, 1992. A member of the Fiamme Gialle Skiers Group, she made her debut in the World Cup competing in the women's giant slalom of Lienz on December 28, 2011, where she failed to qualify for the second heat. She claimed her first podium taking third place in the giant of Killington (USA) on November 26, 2016, while her first victory came in the Korean Super-G of Jeongseon in March 2017. Since then, she has achieved another sixteen victories (twelve downhills and five supergiants), winning the downhill Crystal Globe in three editions (2018, 2021 and 2022), with a total of 40 podiums in her career. Her best ranking position in the overall ranking came in 2016/17 with third place. Goggia has participated in three editions of the World Championships, where she twice stepped onto the podium, gaining a bronze medal in the giant of St. Moritz in 2017 and a silver in the supergiant of Are in 2019. Olympic downhill champion of PyeongChang 2018, she came second in the Beijing 2022 downhill a few months ago, returning to the slopes in record time just 23 days after a serious knee injury.
Design historian
Design historian and curator, in 2010 she became design curator at MAXXI museum in Rome, where she was appointed Senior Curator in 2022. She is lecturer at IED Rome (European Institute of Design) for BA and MA classes. She has been a visiting professor at several universities and institutions, such as the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, the Accademia Abadir in Catania and for the MADE Program in Siracusa. She is co-founder and curator of the design fair EDIT Napoli. She writes for several design magazines and is the author of numerous books and articles.
Founder and CEO, Emotion Network
Mattia Mor, entrepreneur and politician, is Founder and CEO of Emotion Network and a deputy of Italia Viva. Graduated with honors from Bocconi University in Business Administration, he was first a strategic consultant in Value Partners, then in Bain & Company. Since 2005, he has dedicated himself to entrepreneurship in the clothing sector, creating the Blomor brand and leading it to sell in 30 countries around the world with a turnover of 4.5 million. In 2015, he moved to Singapore where he worked as Senior Vice President for Lazada, the largest e-commerce in Southeast Asia, active in Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines and Singapore, and part of the Alibaba Group. In 2016, he returned to Italy as European Executive Director of Mei.com, a website owned by the Alibaba Group, specializing in luxury. In both positions, he was responsible for helping the internationalization towards Asia of Italian fashion and design companies through the development of digital technology. In 2017, he created the civic project #HoSceltoMilano (#IChoseMilan), with the aim of combatting the rhetoric of lament and decline and awakening the Italian civic passion and sense of pride towards their cities and their country, a project that has reached more than 3 million people. Elected in Milan to the Chamber of Deputies in 2018 with the Democratic Party, since September 2019 he has been a Deputy of Italia Viva. Member of the Commission for Productive Activities, Trade and Tourism and of the Parliamentary Intergroup for Innovation, he is also the National Manager of Italia Viva for Innovation and Digitization. In 2018, he filed the ‘StartAct’ bill, with the aim of enabling Italy to recover the gap of private investments in start-ups and venture capital and thus amplify their ability to grow, innovate and create jobs, favoring the return of Italian expatriates and encouraging them to realize their entrepreneurial dreams. In 2020, and in collaboration with other Italian and international entrepreneurs who love innovation and Made in Italy products, Mattia Mor founded the media company Emotion Network, a global platform of entrepreneurs and investors passionate about exploring models of technological innovation that bring the human and his emotions back to the center. The docuseries "Tech.Emotion – Empower Human Potential", created in collaboration with Facebook and broadcast on SKY and Rai Play, is the first of a series of initiatives that Emotion Network is working on to promote a new vision, combining technology with emotions and innovation with creativity.
Co-founder and CEO, Peek
Ruzwana is CEO and Founder of Peek.com, an award-winning platform for booking experiences (such as ziplining, boat rentals and cooking classes). Peek.com combines a marketplace with powerful booking and payment software tools for businesses. Peek.com has had $2 billion in bookings and raised over $100 million in funding from investors such as WestCap & Goldman Sachs. Forbes named the company “America’s next travel unicorn” and a Best Startup Employer in 2021. Ruzwana is also an angel investor and Scout for Sequoia Capital, investing in companies such as Clubhouse and Living Carbon. Ruzwana has been named one of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs, Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People in Business and was a Finalist for E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year. She is a Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum and previously worked at Goldman Sachs and the Blackstone Group. She has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and a BA from Oxford University, where she was President of the Oxford Union.
Founder Pegaso Group