Matteo Arpe is founder, Vice President and CEO of the Sator investment group. He is also President of Banca Profilo, a private banking and advisory group.

Sator, founded in 2007, is an independent investment group active in private equity, public equity and real estate. Its focus is on industrial investments aimed at medium- to long-term value creation. Current holdings include Banca Profilo (private banking), Banzai (e-commerce), Extrabanca (retail banking), Petrolvalves (engineering), l'Autre Chose (fashion) and Centro Europa Ricerche (economic research). The group's investment arm, Sator Capital Limited, is registered in the UK with the Financial Services Authority.

Mr. Arpe was previously CEO of the Capitalia banking Group from 2003 to 2007, after entering the group in 2002 as General Manager. Before joining Capitalia, Mr. Arpe worked at Lehman Brothers with responsibility for European Strategic Equity activity and was a member of Lehman Brothers’ European Investment Banking Executive Committee. Previously, he worked in Mediobanca’s Corporate Finance Department, from 1987 to 1999, and in 1995 he assumed the coordination of Mediobanca equity and bond syndicate underwriting as well as M&A activity.

Mr. Arpe is also Professor of Corporate and Investment Banking at the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. He received a BA cum laude in Economics and Finance from Bocconi University in Milan.

Francesco Caio joined the Board of Directors of Avio (now Avio Aero) in March 2011 and became Group Chief Executive Officer in May. Avio Aero is a leading GE Aviation business in the field of the design, manufacture and maintenance of parts and systems for the civil and military aeronautical industry.

Mr Caio is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Politecnico University of Milan. He has been a consultant for the English government and Italian government on matters of industrial policy, and the development of broadband network infrastructures. In June 2013, he was appointed Commissioner of the Italian government on matters of the Digital Agenda by the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Enrico Letta.

Over the years, Mr Caio has held ever-more responsible posts in the telecommunications and electronics sectors, both in Italy and abroad. He has been Chief Executive Officer of a great many different companies, including Omnitel Pronto Italia, Olivetti, Merloni Elettrodomestici, Netscalibur and Cable & Wireless, as well as Chairman of the Lehman Brothers European Advisory Board in Europe and Deputy Chairman of Investment Banking Europe of Nomura in London.

Mr Caio has been a member of the Board of multinational groups including Equant (1997-2000) and Motorola in the United States (2000-2003).

Mr Caio has a degree in Electronic Engineering obtained from the Politecnico University of Milan, as well as an MBA achieved at the French INSEAD.

Luigi Contu was named editor-in-chief of ANSA in June 2009. Mr Contu began his career with the daily economic newspaper Ore 12 in 1980. He then worked with ANSA’s economic desk for two years before being hired in 1987. After three years he joined the political-parliamentary desk but continued to cover economic and financial news, following closely the work of parliamentary committees and the activities of the government in terms of public accounts.

In 1997 Editor-in-Chief Giulio Anselmi entrusted him with the leadership of editorial policy and under the direction of Pierluigi Magnaschi, the next editor-in-chief, Mr Contu was appointed deputy editor of the agency with the task of coordinating editorial policy and relations with the institutional world. During that period, he was elected first secretary and then vice president of the Parliamentary Press Association.

In 2004 he moved to daily newspaper La Repubblica where Editor Ezio Mauro entrusted him with the management of the main news desk. He left La Repubblica for ANSA in 2009.

Gianpiero D’Alia became Minister of Public Administration and Simplification with the Letta Government in April 2013. Between April 2008 and December 2012 (XVI LEGISLATURE) he was a Member of the Italian Parliament – Senate and President of the Parliamentary Group UDC-SVP e Autonomie –involving membership of the following parliamentary committees: Justice, Anti-Mafia, Oversight of Radio and Television services, Rules of Procedure, Elections and Parliamentary Immunities, Authorisation of Prosecution.

Between May 2001 and April 2006 (XIV LEGISLATURE) he was a Member of the Italian Parliament – Chamber of Deputies – involving membership of the following parliamentary committees: Constitutional Affairs, Anti-Mafia, Consideration of bills for the conversion of decree laws, Committee on Legislation, Council of Jurisdiction. Between April 2005 and May 2006 he was the Undersecretary of State for the Ministry of the Interior, as part of the third Berlusconi Government.

He is a Secretary of UDC (Unione di Centro) for the region of Sicily. He obtained a Degree in Law; is a lawyer expert in administrative law, and counsel in the higher courts.

Luigi de Vecchi is Chairman of Continental Europe for Corporate and Investment Banking at Citigroup.

He has been Global Co-Head of Investment Banking at Credit Suisse from 2009 to 2012;  CEO of Credit Suisse Group Italy from 2007 to 2010 and Head of Credit Suisse Investment Banking from 2004 to 2010.

Prior to joining Credit Suisse First Boston in September 2004, Mr. de Vecchi was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs between 1998 and 2004 and at Kleinwort Benson between 1989 and 1998, where he held various positions in London, Brazil and New York.

Mr de Vecchi is on the Board of Ambienta SgR, a Private Equity Fund focused on the environmental sector ad teaches at L.U.I.S.S. University a course on M@A and Investment Banking.

Mr de Vecchi is a member of the Overseas Board of CalArts in Los Angeles.

Stefano Fassina is Italian Deputy Minister for Economic and Financial Affairs. He is a leading member of the Democratic Party. Mr Fassina previously served as an Economist at the IMF and other international institutions.

Enrico Letta is the President of the Council of Ministers of the Italian Republic. He was sworn in as President of the Council of Ministers on 28 April 2013.

He was Undersecretary of State to the Prime Minister of the centre-left government led by Romano Prodi from 2006 to 2008.

Mr. Letta served as Minister for EU Affairs (1998-1999), as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Crafts (January-April 2000, during the second D’Alema Government) and as Minister for Industry, Commerce and Crafts and Foreign Trade (2000-2001, during the second Amato Government).

Prior to his appointment as Prime Minister he headed an independent think tank, Arel, founded by the late Beniamino Andreatta. He has held positions as Vice Chairman of Aspen Institute Italia, President of the Italy-Spain Dialogue Forum, and a member of the Trilateral Commission.

He was born in Pisa and he spent the first years of his life in Strasbourg. He graduated in International Law at the University of Pisa and obtained a PhD in European Union Law at the School for Advanced Studies “Sant’Anna” of Pisa.

Mr. Letta has been a member of the Italian Parliament since 2001. From 2004 to 2006 he was a member of the European Parliament.

He also served as deputy secretary of the Democratic Party (PD) from 2009 to 2013.

He is the author of many books on international and economic affairs, with particular reference to EU enlargement, including: Euro sì - Morire per Maastricht (Laterza, 1997); Dialogo intorno all’Europa (with L. Caracciolo, Laterza, 2002); L’allargamento dell’Unione Europea (Il Mulino, 2003); L’Europa a Venticinque (Il Mulino, 2005); In questo momento sta nascendo un bambino (Rizzoli, 2007); Costruire una Cattedrale (Mondadori, 2009) and L’Europa è finita? (with L. Caracciolo, ADD Editore 2010).

Angelo Marcello Cardani had a long academic career, which included a tenure at Università Bocconi between 1985 to 2012. From 1989 to 1995 he was Director General and Board Member of the International Management Institute of St. Petersburg (IMISP). Between 1995 to 1999, he served as a member of the Cabinet of Mario Monti, the European Commissioner for Internal Market, Financial Services, and Taxation.

Between 1999 and 2004, he served as Deputy Head of Cabinet of Mario Monti, when he was European Commissioner for Competition Policy. He was the Special Advisor for the Chief Competition Economist at DG Competition between 2004 and 2005. Since July 2012 Mr. Cardani is President of the Italian Telecommunications Agency, appointed by Prime Minister Mario Monti. He has authored numerous academic papers on management and economics topics. Mr. Cardani has a Degree in Economics from Università Bocconi and he completed his studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Riccardo M. Monti was appointed by the Mario Monti Government as President of the Italian Trade Agency, the newly established Institution in charge of both export promotion and investment attraction. He is also Vice Chairman of Simest, the state financial arm that provides equity co-investment for Italian companies abroad, and Member of the Board of the Union of Italian Chambers of Commerce.

Since 2007, Mr Monti is Board Member and Treasurer of the Robert Kennedy Foundation of Europe. He has been Co-Founder and Executive Director of Value Partners, a boutique top management consulting firm which under his guidance grew from 40 professionals active in Italy to a company employing 3000 professionals operating in 15 countries in 2012. He has been advising corporations and governments in 40 countries in Europe, Americas, Middle East, Asia and Africa  on Privatisations, turn-arounds and cross border investments.

Prior to Joining Value Partners, (1994 to 1998) he was Senior Manager at Booz Allen & Hamilton. Between 1992 and 1993 he worked for Federmeccanica (Federation of Employers). In 1991 he was an intern at Alsthom Group in Paris, in the Area of Total Quality Management. In 1990 served as Attached Lieutenant in the Guardia Di Finanza service at their Headquarters.

He has a Degree in Economics Magna cum Laude from the University of Naples. He has been Research Fellow in International Management at Columbia University, New York and has a Master’s Degree in Management of Technology, Brooklyn Polytechnic, New York. Mr Monti is fluent in Italian,  English , Spanish, French and Portuguese.

Fabrizio Palenzona is the President of Assaeroporti, Chairman of Aeroporti di Roma and President of AISCAT. He is also Vice President, Member of the Permanent Strategic Committee and Member of the Corporate Governance, HR and Nomination Committee at Unicredit. Other roles include President of Gemina S.p.A. and FAISERVICE SCARL, Administrative Council Member of ABI and the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", and Member of the Executive Committee of the Giunta degli Industriali di Roma.

Previously, Mr Palenzona was President of Impregilo S.p.A. (June – July 2012); President of AVIVA Italia S.p.A. and Administrative Council Member of Mediobanca S.p.A (2008 – 2012); Administrative Council Member of Schemaventotto S.p.A. (2000 – 2008); President of ASECAP until 2009; President of Fondazione SLALA until 2010; Security Council Member of Mediobanca S.p.A. (2007 – 2008); Administrative Council and Executive Committee Member of Mediobanca S.p.A. (2005 – 2007); Administrative Council Member of Mediobanca S.p.A (2001 – 2003); Administrative Counsellor and Vice President of the ICCRI (1999 – 2002) and Administrative Council Member of the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Torino (1995 – 2000), where he contributed to the establishment of UniCredito S.p.A.

Mr Palenzona obtained a degree in law from the Università degli Studi di Pavia.

He was born in Alessandria on June 6, 1964.

Since April 13, 2011 he is Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Telecom Italia, and he has also been member of the Executive Committee. Since October 3, 2013, after Mr. Bernabé’s resignation, the powers and organizational responsibilities previously assigned to Mr. Franco Bernabè have been temporarily attributed to Mr. Marco Patuano.

He graduated from Bocconi University in 1990, with specialisation in Corporate Finance.

After some experience in the United States, he started his career in Telecom Italia in 1990, at the central Headquarters of the company, then called SIP. Since then, he has worked in the company financial sector, and played a leading role in a phase in which finance was considered from the point of view of providing support to the growth of the business.

This was the period of the merger of Telecom Italia, the spin-off of TIM and the start-up of the mobile telephony company; Patuano contributed actively to this start-up as chief financial officer. His international career started in 2003 with appointment as CFO of TIM Brasil and Telecom Italia America Latina S.A., both Telecom Italia subsidiaries. In the years of his management, TIM Brasil became the second largest mobile phone company in Brazil, and the number one company present in all the Brazilian States with a merger of 11 companies. In 2004, TIM Brasil was the first to launch data transmission services based on EDGE technology.

From 2004 to 2006 he was General Manager of Telecom Italia Latam; in this capacity he was a member of the Boards of Directors of the Telecom Italia subsidiaries in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Venezuela and Paraguay. He also held operational positions in three of the companies. In this period he rationalised the portfolio of the Telecom Group companies with the sale of the Chile, Peru and Venezuela interests. In the same period e was also a member of the Board of Directors of the USA branch of Telecom Argentina, and of American internet companies connected with the Group.

In 2006 he became Director of Fixed Telephony of Telecom Argentina, and from May 2007 to July 2008 was Operational General Manager for the entire company (fixed and mobile telephony). At this time Patuano directly undertook responsibility for the business, working for the company’s turn around.

In 2008, Franco Bernabè called him back to Italy to become Chief Financial Officer of the Group in August of that year. From September 2008 to December 2009 he was a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Italtel S.p.A., to improve the process of the company’s financial improvement.

In November 2009 he was put in charge of the Telecom Italia domestic market sector, managing all the company’s business units in Italy.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Fondazione Bocconi, with which he collaborates regularly, of the Board of Fondazione Telecom Italia and since July 2012 of UPA, the association of advertising users. He is also member of the Board of Directors of Olivetti.

On May 22, 2013 he was also appointed to the council of Confindustria.

Aristide Police is full professor of Administrative Law at the Department of Law, University of Rome “Tor Vergata” since 2005. He also teaches Administrative Law in the Master Courses of Public Administration of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and Energy Law in the Master Courses of the University LUISS G. Carli.

He is the head of the Italian Administrative Law practice of the international law firm Clifford Chance and is considered one of the primary Italian experts in administrative law, judicial review and administrative litigation. Mr Police has more than twenty years expertise in relation to administrative law matters, in front of Council of State and the Regional Administrative Court, with specific reference to economic administrative law, urban and public law. He also has expertise in town and building law, and public infrastructure and services law.

His main research interests include Public Enterprises, their Organization, Management and Privatization, he has been in the Group of Experts on Re-inventing Public Enterprise and its management of the United Nations (Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Administration, New York, 2005). He has been involved in the Privatization of Alitalia (as Chairman of the Board of Directors, 2007-2008) and currently in the Privatization of Tirrenia (as legal advisor).

His publications include several edited books, essays, articles and notes. He sits as deputy Chairman on the Board of Editors of Diritto Amministrativo and Diritto Processuale Amministrativo (Law Reviews), in the Italian Journal of Public Law and in the Executive Committee of the Italian Association of Administrative Law Professors.

Alessandro Profumo is the Chairman of his own consultancy firm Appeal Strategy &Finance and is also Member of the Eni Board of Directors and of Sberbank Supervisory Board.  On February 2012 he was nominated by Commissioner Michel Barnier to become a member of the High-level Expert Group in Brussels on reforming the structure of the EU banking sector. In the same period he joined the International Advisory Board di Itau-UniBanco (Brazil). On April the 27th 2012 he was appointed Chairman of Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank. He is also member of University Bocconi Board of Directors and of TOG Foundation “Together to go”.

Mr Profumo began his career at Banco Lariano, where he worked for ten years, from 1977 to 1987. In December 1987 he joined McKinsey & Company where he was in charge of the strategic and organisational projects for financial companies.  Two years later, having joined Bain, Cuneo & Associati, he was put in charge of developing relations with financial institutions. In 1991 he left the field of company consultancy to join RAS, Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà, where he was given responsibility, as General Manager, for the banking and para-banking sectors. He was also in charge of the yield increase of that company’s bank and of the other group companies operating in the field of asset management.

Three years later, in 1994, he joined Credito Italiano. He was appointed Deputy General Manager and put in charge of Planning & Group Control. A year later he was appointed Chief General Manager. He was appointed Chief Executive Officer between 1997 until September 2010. During this period the business was transformed from a domestic bank (15.000 employees – 100% of revenues within Italian boundaries) to a European leading player (162.000 employees – branches in 23 countries – only 36% of revenues within Italian boundaries)

Mr Profumo holds a degree in Business Economics from the “Bocconi Business University”.

Maurizio Tamagnini serves as the CEO of the Italian Strategic Fund (Fondo Strategico Italiano) - the holding company controlled by the Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) - and has over twenty years’ experience in the financial sector.

Prior to his current position, Mr Tamagnini was the Head of Southern Europe for the Corporate and Investment Banking division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as well as a former Member of the Executive Committee EMEA Region of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. His solid experience in the field of Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity & Debt and Equity have seen Mr Tamagnini spend his career in New York, London and Milan.

Mr Tamagnini holds a degree in International Monetary Economics from Bocconi University in Milan and further qualifications from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of New York, USA.