Manfredi Catella

Founder & CEO,

COIMA

Komal Sri Kumar

President,

Sri Kumar Global Strategies, Inc.

Gabriele Bonfiglioli

Chief Investment Officer,

COIMA

Colin Koop

Design Partner SOM

(Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)

Hashim Sarkis

Dean of the MIT School of Architecture, curator of the 2021 Venice Biennale

Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta

Chief Diversity Officer,

European Space Agency

Valter Militi

President,
Cassa Forense

Alberto Oliveti

President,
ENPAM & AdEPP

Francesco Profumo

President,
ACRI

Giuseppe Santoro

President,
Inarcassa

Gabriele Bonfiglioli

Chief Investment Officer, COIMA

Graduated in Business Administration at the University of Rome, he studied Real Estate Finance at the University of Amsterdam, UVA. Bonfiglioli is currently Key Manager, responsible for Investment Management at COIMA RES (since 2015) and Chief Investment Officer, Investment & Capital Markets of COIMA SGR. Bonfiglioli worked in the Beni Stabili Group SGR, and was actively involved during the raising phase of the first mixed contribution and blind pool capital Italian fund for international investors. Bonfiglioli was a member of the Hines group of Investment and Performance Global Committee until 2014. With more than 15 years of experience in the real estate sector, Bonfiglioli has followed transactions worth more than three billion Euros. During his career, he has negotiated rental contracts for over 100,000 square metres and loans for more than one billion Euros.

Manfredi Catella

Founder & CEO, COIMA

Manfredi Catella is graduated in Economics from Cattolica university in Milan and holds a Regional Planning and Real Estate master from the Polytechnic university of Turin. Catella is COIMA REM shareholder and CEO, and COIMA RES founding shareholder and CEO. He is chairman of the COIMA REM real estate company, founded in 1974. Manfredi Catella was responsible for the Italian business of the US group Hines and worked for JP Morgan in Milan, Caisse Centrale des Banques Populaires in Paris, Heitman in Chicago and HSBC in Paris. He is currently President of the Fondazione Riccardo Catella and is a member of the Bocconi University and Assolombarda Advisory Board. He is a chartered financial analyst, a member of the Italian Journalist Association (freelance) and the author of many articles and texts on real estate and regional requalification.

Stefano Distilli

President, Cassa Dottori Commercialisti

Stefano Distilli has been Chairman of the Italian Welfare Fund of Chartered Accountants (Cassa Dottori Commercialisti) since December 2020, previously he coordinated the Securities Investment Commission as a member of the Board of Directors. Is a member of the Executive Board of ADEPP the Association of Casse di Previdenza Private.
He is a Chartered Accountant and an expert on financial, social security and welfare issues. He has published numerous articles and papers on the subject and speaks at conferences and seminars.
He coordinated and managed the project for the development of the territorial Pension Funds of Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta and taught at UNIVDA in the field of social security.
He has held and continues to hold numerous positions as member of the board and auditor in companies and institutions, particularly in the financial and social security fields.

Colin Koop

Design Partner SOM (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)

Colin has been the driving force behind some of SOM’s most unexpected projects since joining the firm in the early 2000s.
A focus on the human experience is the foundation of Colin’s design philosophy, which he applies across a range of project types including education, transportation, culture, workplace, and urban planning. Clients and collaborators appreciate his genuine interest in understanding the complexities of each project and confronting and resolving these challenges through rigorous dialogue.
Colin’s designs for MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing and for a habitat on the Moon both demonstrate his passion for science, technology, and human-centered design. His relentless attention to detail and an emphasis on the best possible user experience are behind SOM’s design for the Walt Disney Company’s New York City headquarters at 4 Hudson Square. The monumental National Museum of the U.S. Army, which opened to the public in January 2021, allows visitors to experience the story of the oldest branch of the United States military from a soldier’s point of view. Colin also brought the design for Moynihan Train Hall in New York to the finish line, which has been hailed as one the most important U.S. infrastructure projects of the century. Most recently, Colin led SOM’s competition-winning design for the 2026 Olympic Village in Milan.
As a founding partner of SOM’s Talent, Equity, Diversity, and Development team, Colin is invested in creating the most productive and inspiring culture for SOM’s talent to grow, prosper and make a lasting impact on the built environment. Commercial Observer included Colin in its 2021 Power 100 list.

Valter Militi

President, Cassa Forense

Mr. Valter Militi, born in Catania on October 17th 1963,  is an Italian attorney admitted to the Italian Bar (Section of Messina) and to practice before the Italian Supreme Court (Corte di Cassazione). He is an expert in criminal law and criminal procedure and was a member of the “Nordio” Commission within the Italian Ministry ofJustice in the year 2002 for the reform of the Italian Penal Code. He acted as a speaker in numerous meeting and conferences in Italy concerning criminal law and procedure, corporate law, environment law and social security for legal professions. He is President of Cassa Nazionale di Previdenza e Assistenza Forense (“Cassa Forense”) since April 2021, after having held theposition of director (Consigliere di Amministrazione) for 10 years (VicePresident since 2014). He is also a member of the Investment Committee of Cassa Forense, taking an active role in the resolution of the investments. He is a member of the Board of Directors of a major fund management company and of several fund advisory boards.

Alberto Oliveti

President, ENPAM & AdEPP

Alberto Oliveti, born in Rome on the 2nd of August 1953, graduated in medicine in 1980 in Ancona, and later specialised in Paediatrics. Since 2012 he has been the chairman of Enpam, the Italian first-pillar pension fund for physicians and dental surgeons, after having served for a long time as board member and deputy chairman. Under his leadership, Enpam has implemented an asset management reform, a pension reform and a change of its internal regulation. Oliveti’s pension reform has ensured long-term sustainability, proven over a 50-year time frame.
Today Enpam has 373,400 active members, 143,000 pensioners, and assets of approx. 25 billion euros.
On the 16th of December 2015 Oliveti was also elected chairman of Adepp, the association representing all the Italian private first-pillar pension funds. His working plan in leading the association is summarised in the acronym Wise: Welfare, Investments, Services, Europe.

Francesco Profumo

President, ACRI, Association of Foundations of banking origin and Savings Banks

Francesco Profumo, who was born in 1953, has been Chair of FCSP since May 2016 and Chair of ACRI (Associazione Fondazioni e Casse di Risparmio – the Italian Association of bank and savings bank foundations) since May 2019. He was Minister of Education, Universities and Research and Chair of the National Research Council (CNR).In 2003 he became Dean of the Faculty of Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Turin, and then served as Chancellor of the same university between 2005 and 2011. Francesco Profumo is currently Chair of Fondazione ESMI ESCP Europe/Turin Campus, President of Uni-Italia, Member of EIC European Innovation Council Board, Member of the Board of Directors of Aquafil SpA, Member of the ODV of Italgas SpA, Member of the Advisory Board of Iliad Italia SpA, Vice President of the Strategic Steering Committee of the Digital Republic Fund.

Giuseppe Santoro

President, Inarcassa

Giuseppe Santoro graduated in Architecture at the University of Palermo in 1981. He was the founding architect of the Order of Syracuse in 1981. Since 1982 he has been working as freelancer with a studio in Priolo Gargallo focused in particular on public works and environmental consultancy sectors.He holds a University Master of First Level PrevManagement - Economics and Management of Complementary Pensions. Since 2015 he has been Chairman of Inarcassa, the national pension fund for engineers and architects freelancers, and he has been reconfirmed, in July 2020 until 2025.Delegate of the Province of Syracuse, he was Secretary of the Statute Restricted Committee, Secretary of the Congruity Commission, Board Member and Member of the Executive Committee.Vice Chairman of Inarcassa in the five-year period 2010-2015.Chairman of Arpinge until 2016; Chairman of Assodire 2020-2023 and Vice Chairman of Adepp from 2021.

Hashim Sarkis

Dean of the MIT School of Architecture, curator of the 2021 Venice Biennale

Hashim Sarkis is an architect, educator, and scholar. He is principal of Hashim Sarkis Studios (HSS), established in 1998 with offices in Boston and Beirut. He is also the Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 2015 and wasthe director/curator of the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale.Before joining MIT, Sarkis was the Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism atHarvard University. The architectural and urban projects of HSS include affordable housing, houses, parks, institutionalbuildings, urban design, and town planning. HSS has received several awards for its projectsincluding for the Housing of the Fishermen of Tyre, Byblos Town Hall, and the Courtower Houses. The firm’s work has been exhibited around the world, including at the Museum of Modern Art in NewYork and at the biennales of Venice, Rotterdam, Shenzhen/Hong Kong, and Valparaiso. The workhas also been published extensively, including in a monograph by Ness.docs. Sarkis earned a Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island Schoolof Design, and a Master of Architecture and a PhD in Architecture from Harvard University. He isauthor, co-author, and editor of several books and articles on modern architecture history and theory, including The World as an Architectural Project; Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design;Circa 1958, Lebanon in the Projects and Plans of Constantinos Doxiadis; and Le Corbusier's Venice Hospital.

Komal Sri Kumar

President, Sri Kumar Global Strategies, Inc.

Komal Sri-Kumar is President of Sri-Kumar Global Strategies, Inc., a macroeconomic consulting firm based in Santa Monica – California, that he formed in January 2013 to advise multinational firms and sovereign wealth funds on global risk and opportunities. Prior to founding the firm, Sri worked at the Los Angeles-based Trust Company of the West (TCW) from 1990 to 2012, serving for the last several years as the firm’s Chief Global Strategist. From 1997 to 2015 he was the Chairman of TCW’s Comprehensive Asset Allocation Committee. Sri holds an M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, and M.Phil and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University.

Kelly Russell

Head of Sustainability & Communication, COIMA

Born in 1976 in Columbus, Georgia, married with 5 children, Kelly Russell Catella is Head of Sustainability & Communication and Chairman of the Sustainable Innovation Committee of COIMA SGR. Prior to her current role, she held the position of Communication, CSR and Marketing Director at Hines Italia SGR and gained experience managing strategic communication, public relations and community engagement of the major Porta Nuova urban regeneration project in the center of Milan. Kelly Russell Catella is also General Manager of the Riccardo Catella Foundation, founded in 2005 to promote best practices in the sustainable territorial development, with particular attention giving to social inclusion in our cities and the global fight against climate change. Thanks to an innovative public-private collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, since 2019 the Foundation is responsible for the maintenance and security of BAM (Biblioteca degli Alberi Milano), the third urban public park in the city, and offering acultural program open to all citizens. Before the positions cited above, Kelly Russell Catella was regional coordinator for Urban Land Institute in Italy.

Ersilia Vaudo Scarpetta

Chief Diversity Officer, European Space Agency

Ersilia Vaudo has a degree in Astrophysics. Since 1991 she has been working at the European Space Agency where she is currently ESA Senior Advisor on Strategic Evolution and Chief Diversity Officer. During her career she held various roles, and was Deputy Head of ESA Washington DC (USA) in charge of relations with NASA.
In 2022, she was the Curator of the XXIII International Exhibition of the Triennale di Milano on the theme “Unknown Unknowns. An introduction to mysteries”
Ersilia Vaudo is President and co-founder of the Association "Il Cielo itinerante" to promote STEM literacy by bringing "the sky where it does not reach", with a telescope on a minibus and STEM experiments, among boys and girls living in disadvantaged areas.
In 2022 she was awarded the honor Commendatore of the Order of the "Star of Italy" by the President of the Italian Republic.
In 2023 she published “Mirabilis. Five intuitions (with more to come) that have revolutionized our idea of the Universe.”