Sandro De Poli is Chairman of AVIO Aero, Italy (a GE business). His career starts in 1979 in the Healthcare domain at Siemens, from which he moved in 1982 to GE Medical Systems, growing into a European General Management role in 1988. In 1993 he’s appointed General Manager of the Italy, Israel, Turkey, Greece branches. In 2004 he led the Commercial integration of GE Medical Systems and Amersham Health at global level, which gave birth to GE Healthcare, a leading global medical technology and life sciences company. He was Chairman of the Italian branch of GE Healthcare until 2005, and Vice President of Commercial Operations of GE Healthcare Europe. In 2011 he becomes Chairman and CEO of General Electric Italy and Israel, in charge of all the Industrial activities of General Electric in Italy and Israel. In 2019 Sandro becomes Chairman of Avio, a global leader in the field of design, engineering and production of aircraft engines.

Degree in Architecture. Founding member at META Group.

Since 2019, founding partner of EUREKA! Venture SGR Spa. She is currently a member of the Investment Committee of the Eureka! Technology Transfer Fund.

In 1993 she founded META Group, an international company with consolidated experience in the field of innovation, from policies to instruments, able to integrate technical assistance for economic development, dedicated services for the creation and acceleration of knowledge-intensive companies and the management of venture capital instruments, in Italy and abroad.

Since January 2018, she has been one of the five Italian expert evaluators, among 87 European evaluators, of the Horizon2020 SMEInstrument programme, now EIC Accelerator. An architect, she is a member of IAG, Italian Angels for Growth, one of the most active business angel clubs, and co-founder of Angels4Women, a club dedicated to investing in women-led companies.

She was a member of the jury of the EBA Award, a European competition that rewards the best companies of the year, and is currently a member of the EY jury for the Entrepreneur of the Year award - Startup and Scaleup section.

Since 2018, she has been an alumna of "InTheBoardroom 4.0" after participating in the executive path promoted by ValoreD to promote and include trained and talented women in boards of directors.

Since January 2016, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the "Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria" Foundation and a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Treccani" Italian Institute. Named by Wired as one of the ten most innovative Italian women of 2015 and winner of the international award "techno-visionaries_finance section 2016".

Roberto Bonanni has more than 25 years of professional experience as chartered accountant and senior auditor, evaluator of research and innovation projects presented by SMEs, senior consultant for economic analysis, administration, management control, accounting report and more than 15 years of professional experience in early stage finance and technology transfer.
Board member and statutory auditor of numerous companies.

As CFO of META Ventures since its foundation in 2005, he deals with the public managing authorities at national, regional and local level to build and implement shared rules to monitor and report results and outcomes of the Financial Instruments under META Ventures management.

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.

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!”.

Degree in Chemistry FT with over 36 years of experience in Materials Science, with a focus on materials for Biomedical applications.

Anna Tampieri was Director of the Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramic Materials at CNR and Head of Research on Biomaterials and Hybrid Composites at ISSMC-CNR.

Anna is author of more than 350 scientific articles, H-index = 62; citation index: 15,300 and coordinator of several projects funded by the European Community as well as scientific advisor of the European Research Council.

Anna was also the inventor of 16 international patents, 8 of which have been commercialised.

Appointed President of ENEA-Tech, founded by the Ministry of Economic Development to promote the technological transfer of innovation in Italy, she was the "idea maker" and President of FINCERAMICA Biomedical Solution S.p.A. and the "idea maker" and scientific advisor of the start-up Green-Bone ortho S.p.A..