Chartered accountant, Member of ODCEC Rome Board of Statutory Auditors Commission, A4W, Nedcommunity, Aisca. Stefania Mancino has s degree in Economics and Business Administration and a licensed certified public accountant registered in Rome. She is an expert in internal controls, risk management processes, financial reporting and internal audits, corporate governance and sustainability (non-financial statements) for listed and non-listed groups and organizations operating in regulated sectors. Owner of a tax, administrative, corporate and financial consulting firm. She is a Statutory Auditor in different companies of Gruppo Intesa Sanpaolo and in the Boards of Statutory Auditors and Integrity Committees of important listed and non-listed companies of the financial, utility, publishing, engineering, IT and health sectors.
She has thirty years of experience in subsidized loans to businesses, venture capital funding for start-ups, strategic and financial planning, and business plan development.

Trusts and generational transfers of family businesses:

• organization and management models (pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/2001) for the "mapping of corporate risks"
• organizational development models and personnel management
• financial statements and consolidated financial statements, domestic and international taxation
• company valuations, constitutions, liquidations, mergers, demergers.

Filippo Berneri is admitted to the Association of Chartered Accountants and Auditors in Milan and is auditor since 2010. He is partner at Annunziata & Conso. His main focus is on corporate, business, banking, financial and insurance law, with a special interest in legal comparisons, application of international models and structures, as well as issues related to cross-border transactions by foreign entities in Italy. He has gained considerable experience in anti-money laundering, legal and regulatory advice on the provision of collective asset management, investment services and banking services. Filippo holds a number of offices in supervised companies and is a speaker at conferences covering his specific expertise.

Degree in Economics, 20 years as serial entrepreneur and leading Venture Capitalist.

Stefano is a serial entrepreneur & company builder with extensive experience in Venture Capital industry, both in VC Funds and Fund of Funds management and startup creation. He promoted and managed two Asset Management Companies and many venture capital funds up to 150M€ in Italy (Quantica SGR with Principia Funds, EUREKA! Venture SGR with Eureka! Fund) and abroad (Axon Partners Group), established companies and created successful businesses from scratch up to scaleup with huge exits. EOS is one of his best biotech backed startup sold to an American listed company at 470M$ with 12x return.

Past Co-Founder and Investment Advisor at Axon Capital SGR, now Axon Partners Group, an international and investment company based in Madrid (450M€ AUM). Investment Committee Member at "Aurora" Fund of Funds promoted by Axon. Investment Committee Member at Fund of Funds FARE Venture promoted by Lazio Innova since 2017 (80M€ AUM, to be invested both in funds and startups).

Previously co-Founder and Managing Director at United Risk Management, co-Founder and Managing Director at Job Advisor and Senior consultant at PwC .

Stefano writes about startups, innovation and Venture Capital for digital magazine Startupbusiness ("Vc Voice" channel) and EconomyUp, with his blog “Eureka!”.

From 2003 to date President and founder of Astor Ventures, a leading private venture capital investment firm, with 20+ investments, focused on providing seed capital to innovative companies BA with honors majoring in Economics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, Francesco started his career at Bank of America in New York, followed by Shearson Lehman Brothers in Montecarlo; he developed several  years of investment experience in sophisticated and alternative asset-classes. Among others he contributed to the development of the first fund of hedge funds in Italy and financed the early development of Yoox, the leading Italian listed e-commerce company. Co-founder and Executive Chairman until 2005 and still Honorary Chairman of IAG – Italian Angels for Growth (the first and largest angel Investors' group in Italy). Previosly Founder an Chairman of DECALIA Asset Management SIM Spa (formerly Astor SIM), the Italian arm of a leading Swiss asset management company and Fund Manager of Thema, a multi-asset class, multi- thematic Italian alternative investment fund. Currently he sits on the following board of Directors: Sportswear Company Spa (leading clothing company), Sedicidodici (diagnostic company) and Voxnest (leading podcast Us company)

Francesco graduated in Economics (auditing) at the Bocconi University in Milan. He started his carrier in the financial industry in 2001, working for one of the Big Four Audit Companies where he focused on accounting, compliance, risk management and internal controls matters. Francesco has been long in the employ of leading Italian and International banks, specializing in internal auditing and compliance controls. In particular, between 2012 and 2015 he was in charge of the  Compliance Monitoring and Testing Italian department in an international bank. In 2015, together with Massimiliano Marinelli, founded Comply Consulting; at present, Francesco is in charge of many Compliance, Anti-money Laundering and Internal Audit assignments in leading Alternative Asset Manager (Private Equity, Private Debt, Venture Capital e Real Estate), and in other financial intermediaries (i.e. payment institutions).