Alida Carcano
Partner and CEO, Valeur Investments
Having started her career in 1989, Alida Carcano covered several positions at international banking institutions such as Deutsche Bank, UBS and Credit Suisse, moving from Italy to Switzerland, London, Singapore and Hong Kong.
In 2007 she left the banking world and, after a sabbatical year dedicated to the family, in 2009 she created Valeur Investments in Switzerland.
Other ventures followed in the Asset Management business in Singapore, Luxemburg, Milan and London.
She is also partner of Lagom Family Advisors, a multi family office based in Lugano, and MdotM, an Artificial Intelligence driven investment strategy developer based in Milan and London.
She graduated with Magna cum Laude at the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan and is a CFA charterholder.
She has a keen interest in foreign languages and literature.
Sara Lovisolo
Group Sustainability Manager, London Stock Exchange Group
Sara is responsible for sustainability management and strategy at London Stock Exchange Group, and has been recently appointed to the European Commission’s Technical Expert Group on Sustainable Finance (TEG). She is an active member of the Consultative Group of the UN-backed Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative and of the City of London’s Green Finance Initiative. She is also co-chair of the working group tasked with setting up the Italian government-backed Sustainable Financial Centre. She has a Masters in Economics and has co-authored a number of publications on the impact of taxation on the cost of capital.
Paola Antonella Mungo
University Professor
Paola Antonella Mungo has been the co CEO of Azimut Group, independent listed financial group with an international presence, since the end of April 2017, having covered the role of General Manager of the same group from 2007. She has been an 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 has been the keynote speaker at several round-table discussions and international conferences and teaches 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, macro analyst and strategist. Served on several Investment Committees in the UK, Italy, Switzerland and France, focusing on asset management for both institutional and private clients.
Committed to gender equality, in the last 10 years Marialuisa has also been actively promoting initiatives and projects to empower women, serving as President of BPW (Business Professional Women) Club Ticino and as member of the national BPW Equal Pay Day Task Force (2013-2016). She currently leads FAFTPlus, the Federation founded 60 years ago by the female associations of Tessin and now open for membership to all institutions willing to promote gender diversity and inclusion.
Matteo Bosco
Senior Advisor, Conser SA
Matteo Bosco graduated in Lausanne at HEC, started his career at Unigestion in Geneva in 1990, worked since 1991 with Credit Suisse, first in the corporate department for Multinational clients in Zurich and then in Milan where he led the asset management division from 2001 till 2009. As part of the acquisition of part of the Credit Suisse Asset Management Division by Aberdeen Asset Management he started the Italian office as Country Manager and then was named in 2013 Country Head for Switzerland and head of the Southern European business. In 2017 Matteo started his own activity as a consultant to companies. He is now advising Conser SA.
