Paola Antonella Mungo
Paola Antonella Mungo has been the co CEO of Azimut Group, independent listed financial group with an international presence, until the end of April 2017, having yet covered the role of General Manager from 2007 of the same group. She has been also executive committee and Board member of the companies of the group since the beginning. Previously Ms Mungo covered tasks with growing responsibilities within the legal department of the financial-insurance Group, Zurich Financial Services. After her first-class honors degree in Law, Ms Mungo carried out her lawyer apprenticeship at a famous legal firm in Milan. She’s keynote speaker at several round-table discussions and international conferences and teaches at courses and highly specialized masters at prestigious Universities.
Marialuisa Parodi
CIO, Soave Asset Management Ltd
Investment manager with more than 20 years’ experience of working in international and multicultural environments, mainly as global fixed income fund manager and macro analysist and strategist. Served on several Investment Committees in the UK, Italy, Switzerland and France, focusing on both institutional and private clients.
Committed to gender equality, in the last 10 year Marialuisa has been actively promoting initiatives and projects to empower women, including the Forum 54 Donne Elettrici Political Agenda in Tessin. She has served as President of BPW (Business Professional Women) Club Ticino and as member of the national BPW Equal Pay Day Task Force (2013-2016); she is currently Vice President of FAFTPlus, the 60 years old Federation of Female Associations of Tessin, now open for membership to all institutions, private and public, willing to promote gender diversity and inclusion.
Marialuisa is a member of the Consultative Commission of SUPSI- DEASS, Dipartimento Economia Aziendale, Sanità e Sociale and a member of CFA Institute Association, Italian Society. She has Italian and Swiss nationality, lives in Ticino, is married and mother of two sons.
Maggie Rokkum-Testi
CEO, CIO and Co-Founder, Thalia SA
Maggie is CEO, CIO and Co-Founder of Thalìa SA. Since the launch of the company in 2004, Maggie has been responsible for the investment process, for all the investment solutions managed by the company and for the Advisory relationships with Institutional Investors and sophisticated Private Clients since inception. She became the CEO in March 2016 and along with Thalìa’s CFO, is responsible for all business aspects and for managing Thalìa’s team.
As CIO, Maggie manages the investment team, comprised of a deputy CIO and 5 portfolio managers/analysts and chairs the Investment Committees. The Investment team at Thalìa manages a number of multi-manager investment vehicles domiciled in Switzerland and Luxembourg, including two white-label funds of hedge funds - the BSI Multi-Manager FOHFs launched respectively in 1999 and in 2005, the Thalia Alternative Sicav (TAS) umbrella fund composed of six sub-funds, a white label Fund of “Newcits” fund managed on behalf of BSI in addition to other bespoke investment solutions.
Maggie is a seasoned professional with more than twenty five years of experience in Asset Management and currencies, of which eighteen dedicated to Hedge Fund investing. Thanks to her excellent reputation across the Hedge Fund community, Maggie and her team have built solid and trusted relationships with best of breed Hedge Fund managers and service providers and keep abreast of emerging talents in the Hedge Fund space.
In 2015, Maggie was celebrated among the “50 Leading Women in Hedge Fund” by the Hedge Fund Journal in association with Ernst and Young and was nominated “Hedge Fund Personality of the year” by the magazine Wealth and Management.
Maggie is a CFA charter-holder and has been a member of the CFA Institute since 1999. She holds a Masters in International Economics and Management from Bocconi University and a Master of Finance from the Norwegian School of Management.
Maggie is mother tongue Norwegian and English, fluent in Italian and has some knowledge of French.
Paola Bissoli
Senior Business Development Manager, Aberdeen Asset Managers Switzerland
Paola joined Aberdeen Standard Investments as a result of the merger between Aberdeen Asset Management and Standard Life in August 2017. She joined Aberdeen in 2015 from Saint George Capital Management (UnipolSAI Assicurazioni, formerly Fondiaria-SAI Group) where she was CEO and Investment Manager. Previously, Paola worked as Hedge Fund Manager for Banca Gesfid (Fondiaria-SAI Group), Vicos SA, Banca Zarattini &CO.
Paola graduated with a MSc in Chemical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (1998). Paola is a director of the London board of the 100 Women in Finance association and co-head of CAIA Zurich Chapter.
