Pietro is a founder turned VC. He has invested at seed stage for 10 years, focusing predominantly on B2B software. He is first check and on the board of several unicorns, including: Typeform and TrueLayer. Pietro learned the whole rollercoaster journey of tech entrepreneurship as co-founder and CEO of Neo Network, a mobile communication platform. Started in Milan in 2001, scaled up to 25m ARR, acquired in 2008. Prior to that, he did 5 years of Product and Marketing Management at Kraft Food where he experienced with Philadelphia the power category domination. A classic journey from soft cheese to soft…ware. Pietro’s passion and expertise is in everything SaaS, in product-led growth and in category design. He likes experimenting with new frameworks like his notorious Minimum Viable Category Design or the PLG Trifecta (LINKs) Pietro lives in London with his wife and two boys who has coerced to become Inter Milan fans.

Cristiana Capotondi nasce a Roma nel settembre del 1980. Nel 1993 inizia la sua professione di attrice alternando film d’autore e commedie per il grande pubblico, importanti mini serie tv e qualche esperienza estera. Nel 2014 esordisce alla regia con un cortometraggio sociale Gioia in movimento sulla sindrome di Ehler Danlos per Fondazione Telethon e Solferino28 un racconto in quindici minuti su Il Corriere della sera all’interno del film Milano2015. Nel settembre 2016 idea e produce fuoricinema, una manifestazione cinematografica milanese dall'anima pop che ha ottenuto importanti riconoscimenti. Attenta alle tematiche del femminile, l’8 marzo del 2018 viene scelta da Il Quirinale per il discorso di apertura della giornata mondiale della donna alla presenza del Presidente della Repubblica Sergio Mattarella. Dal novembre del 2018 al gennaio del 2021 è Vice Presidente vicario della Lega Pro, coronando il sogno di entrare a far parte del mondo del calcio. Nell’agosto del 2020 viene nominata capo delegazione della nazionale di calcio femminile. E’ laureata in Scienze della comunicazione all’Università La Sapienza di Roma ed è fondatrice dell’associazione culturale IoSono con la quale promuove i valori del grande Umanesimo in una società sempre più digitilizzata, realizzando la manifestazione Festival dell’umano in media partnership con il Corriere della sera. È Cavaliere della Repubblica Italiana.

Marco Chisari currently works as Executive Vice President at Samsung in Silicon Valley, California, heading the US Foundry business and Corporate Development and Venture activities. The business he heads had about $9bn revenue in 2022. From 2018 to 2021 he worked as Managing Director, Global Head of Semiconductor for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in San Francisco. At BAML he has advised on many transactions. In 2020 alone, he advised on $69bn of M&A, including the $35bn sale of Xilinx to AMD, the $21bn acquisition of Maxim by Analog Devices, the $9bn sale of Intel NAND business to SK Hynix. Other transactions include the $10bn acquisition of Cypress by Infineon, the $4.6bn acquisition of Osram by AMS, Marvell acquisitions of Aquantia and Avera. From 2016 to 2018 he worked as Managing Director, heading technology M&A in San Francisco for Credit Suisse. In this role he has advised on semiconductor and software transactions, including the $14.7bn acquisition of Linear Technology by Analog Devices, the proposed $47bn sale of NXP to Qualcomm, the $5.6bn acquisition of Brocade by Broadcom. Prior to this role, he served as an Executive Director at Mubadala, working on technology M&A investments. In about 7 years he participated in investments worth over $22bn, including the creation and the M&A activities of GlobalFoundries which has become the second largest foundry player in the world with over $6bn revenue. While at Mubadala he has also served as SVP, head of M&A and Corp Dev at GlobalFoundries working on the $2.8bn acquisition of Charter Semiconductor and IBM Microelectronics, partnerships with Samsung as well as a $2.5bn joint venture in China. He also served on the Boards of some of Mubadala VC portfolio companies, including SoftMachines, SmoothStone and Aquantia. Prior to Mubadala he worked at JPMorgan in TMT investment banking in London. In this role he worked on over $20bn of M&A transactions including some of the largest technology LBO transactions ($10.6bn NXP LBO). Prior to JPMorgan he worked at STMicroelectronics in San Jose, CA developing System-on-Chip products with ARM processors and Flash Memories, and at NOKIA in Italy, developing turbo codes and 3G algorithms for 3G baseband and smart antennas. He graduated summa cum lauded in microelectronics engineering from Politecnico of Milano, Italy and he holds an MBA degree from SDA Bocconi University and attended as a second-year exchange student the MBA program at Wharton Business School.

Product-focused, balance-sheet driven entrepreneur with a 25+ year track record in pioneering, launching and growing profitable business in the media and tech space with broad experience in product, business, and content development. Massimo Ciociola is the Founder and CEO of Musixmatch, the global leading consumer and business Music Data company based in Bologna, London and San Francisco. The company focuses on building the best languages, transcriptions and meta data out of any audio formats. From Music to Audio. Musixmatch has more than 70 million users worldwide throughout all consumer platforms and global distributions agreements with Apple Music, Amazon Music, Instagram, Google, Facebook, Vevo, Spotify, Tidal, Youtube, etc with the goal of enhancing the consumer music experience. Musixmatch since July 2022 is a TPG Growth's portfolio company.

È Presidente e Amministratore delegato della Brunello Cucinelli SpA, maison di moda italiana operante nel settore dei beni di lusso assoluto, specializzata nel cashmere e divenuta nel tempo uno dei brand più esclusivi nel settore del pret-à-porter “informal luxury” a livello mondiale. Il sogno della sua vita è stato sempre quello di rendere il lavoro dell’uomo più umano, immaginando di dare allo stesso tempo dignità morale ed economica, cercando di unire sempre: profitto, dono e custodia, realizzando così una forma di “capitalismo umanistico contemporaneo”. Brunello Cucinelli ha ricevuto un numero straordinario di riconoscimenti nazionali e internazionali per il suo “Capitalismo umanistico”: nel 2018 l’Università degli Studi di Messina, ritenendo Brunello Cucinelli «pensatore concreto, promotore culturale e vero mecenate dei nostri tempi», gli ha conferito il dottorato di ricerca in Filosofia honoris causa. Negli anni precedenti nobilissime per la sua realtà umana sono le prestigiose nomine, nel 2010, a Cavaliere del Lavoro, consegnatagli dal Presidente della Repubblica, e nello stesso anno la Laurea ad honorem in Filosofia ed Etica delle relazioni umane con la quale l’Università degli Studi di Perugia ha voluto rendere omaggio alla sua alta attività di imprenditore umanista. Nel 2017, da parte dell’autorevole Kiel Institute, riceve il “Global Economy Prize for the World Economy”, con il commento di aver saputo «[…] impersonare perfettamente la figura del Mercante Onorevole»; l’anno seguente, nel 2018, un altro prestigioso titolo di eccellenza gli viene assegnato con la nomina a Cavaliere di Gran Croce al merito della Repubblica Italiana. Nel settembre 2021 ha ricevuto a Londra il premio “Designer of the Year” conferitogli dall’importante rivista britannica di moda maschile «GQ» a conferma del suo costante impegno umanistico come stilista e imprenditore e per diversi progetti di umana sostenibilità. A ottobre dello stesso anno, Brunello Cucinelli è stato invitato a partecipare al G20 di Roma per portare la sua idea di “Capitalismo Umanistico e Umana Sostenibilità” alla presenza dei leader mondiali e dell’allora Sua Altezza il Principe, oggi Re, Carlo del Regno Unito. Nel 2022, da parte dell’Università di Roma “Sapienza”, viene insignito del titolo di Dottore di Ricerca Honoris causa in Management, Banking and Commodity Sciences, un titolo prestigioso che la Rettrice Antonella Polimeni ha commentato con bellissime parole: «per aver saputo coniugare una storia imprenditoriale di successo con il rispetto della vocazione del territorio e dei valori sociali, dando vita a un nuovo umanesimo dell’impresa». La particolarità della sua azione imprenditoriale è sempre stata quella di offrire lavoro nel pieno rispetto della «dignità morale ed economica dell’uomo». L’impresa è stata quindi da lui concepita, non solo come strumento per generare profitto, ma anche come tramite per sviluppare un modello di capitalismo che ponga al centro l’essere umano e la sua valorizzazione». A Marzo 2023 gli è stato conferito il prestigioso Neiman Marcus Award for distinguished service in the field of fashion” che il department store del lusso di Dallas conferisce alle figure che nel mondo hanno maggiormente influenzato la moda a partire dagli anni '30 del secolo scorso.

Oscar Farinetti (full name Natale Oscar Farinetti) was born on the 24th of September, during harvest time, in 1954, an excellent vintage for wine in Alba, the capital of the Langhe, by mother Bianca from Barolo, and father Paolo from Barbaresco. He lives on the tip of a hill, among his vineyards. He founded Unieuro (electronics) and then Eataly (food). At the end of 2020 he launched his third major project: Green Pea, a huge department store entirely dedicated to high quality and design non-food products, but at the same time sustainable because built in harmony with the earth, air and water. He owns several farms where he grows and processes organic products. He has received two Honoris Causa degrees, has written various successful books and holds lectures around the world. His specialty consists in being able to describe in a simple but suggestive way how to create a project, tell his idea of what marketing is and define the actions necessary to successfully face the future. Through an innovative vision that is based on rules and feelings, poetry and mathematics, moves and human relationships. Oscar donates all the revenues of his lectures to two non-profit foundations; the Mirafiore Foundation that deals with spreading literature among ordinary people, and Earth (Eataly Art House) that deals with spreading art among ordinary people.

Alberto Forchielli, Classe ‘55 – MBA with Honors ad Harvard e Laurea cum Laude in Economia e Commercio all’Università di Bologna – è Partner Fondatore di Mindful Capital Partners. Forchielli è esperto nello sviluppo di affari internazionali, con particolare focus su SEA (South East Asia), US e Cina, grazie alle proprie abilità strategiche basate su un’esperienza di 40 anni. Attualmente si occupa anche di dinamiche e tematiche relative al mercato del lavoro globale e gestione dei talenti e delle competenze a livello internazionale con particolare attenzione al disagio giovanile e alla formazione professionale. Da sempre esperto di economia, scrive per Caixin Media (fugeli.blog.caixin.com) e ha attivo inoltre un proprio blog in inglese (www.albertoforchielli.com). È ospite regolarmente a Piazza Pulita, Class CNBC, Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters e su CCTV, televisione di stato cinese. Bolognese, nel proprio background operativo, oltre ad essere stato Consigliere Particolare del Ministro Italiano della Difesa, del Ministro del Bilancio del Mezzogiorno e del Ministro degli Affari Esteri, vanta esperienze pluriennali di lavoro e di vita in diverse parti del mondo: Singapore e Kuala Lumpur con Finmeccanica, Washington con la Banca Mondiale, Lussemburgo con la Banca Europea degli Investimenti, Roma con il Gruppo IRI, Boston e Londra, Santiago, Lima e Milano e Roma con il Mac Group, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pechino, Monaco di Baviera con Mandarin Capital Partners (attuale Mindful Capital Partners).

Dr Ann Kaplan has a DBA, a Doctor of Business Administration, MBA, Masters of Business Administration, MSc, Masters of Science, and ICD.D, a Corporate Governance Designation. Kaplan also studied Spirituality at the PhD level. Following academic pursuits, Ann was recognized with the highest honor, a WIMA Award, as one of the top ten female graduates of the Rotman School of Management. Dr Kaplan founded a Company, iFinance, that provides consumers with small, unsecured loans at POS terminals and online. She implemented her predictive algorithms enhanced by AI and Machine Learning, then sold the Company in 2022. During her 25-year tenure with the Company, she won over 40 international and national awards including two national awards as EY Woman Entrepreneur of the Year. Dr Kaplan continues to stay involved in finance as a regular News commentator throughout North America. Not shy to media, Ann has hosted three national television shows and starred on the Real Housewives, she is currently slated to star in a docu-reality show largely based around her real estate investments. She currently owns and operates an insurance company, a large real estate portfolio and has her own fashion line. Ann is also a seven-times published author, she sits on three academic boards and committees and is a twelve-year delegate with the Ontario Economic Summit and twice co-chair in finance at the G20Y Summit in Geneva and is a motivation speaker on the public speaking circuit.

Micaela Le Divelec Lemmi, is an independent advisor, since September 2021, involved in innovative projects, Innovative Start ups operating in the fashion luxury sector, and occupying Board chairs in listed companies and luxury consumers driven ventures: Porsche AG, De Longhi SpA, ADR SpA, Scuola 42 Firenze. Le Divelec has been Ferragamo Group CEO from July 2018 until September 2021, joining the Group on April 2018 as General Manager and driving the Company towards a repositioning strategy and achieving a full turnaround post COVID turmoil. She is a long-lasting experienced professional in the fashion and luxury industry, having worked for 20 years within the Kering Group with growing responsibilities. She first joined the Finance Department in 1998, she has been then appointed CFO at Gucci in 2008 and Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Operations Officer in 2013. On 2014 she became also Richard Ginori’s CEO, under the control of the Kering Group, until 2015 when she has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Consumer Officer of Gucci. She left the Group in April 2018.

Emma Marcegaglia is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marcegaglia Holding S.p.A., and Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marcegaglia Steel Spa and its subsidiaries companies operating in the processing of steel. (Marcegaglia Carbon Steel Spa, Marcegaglia Specialties Spa, Marcegaglia Plates Spa, Marcegaglia Ravenna Spa, Marcegaglia Gazoldo Inox Spa, Marcegaglia Palini e Bertoli) She is also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marcegaglia Investments Srl, the holding company of diversified activities of the group. (from July 1998 to June 2015 CEO of Marcegaglia Spa) Furthermore, she sits on the Board of Directors of the following companies: Bracco S.p.A. (since May 2005) and Gabetti Property Solutions S.p.A. (since April 2005) Chairman of the Luiss Alumni 4 Growth (LA4G) and Chairman L.LAB Srl. (Luiss Guido Carli University)

An entrepreneur, he has been involved in Venture Capital investments since 1996, when he founded the telecommunications company ePlanet (listed on the stock exchange in 2000) and, later, Sarlux, a company that built and operated a power plant. He is the founder of ACM (Angel Capital Management), a private investment company and family office. ACM is the majority shareholder of Milano Investment Partners SGR, a management company of Alternative Investment Funds, founded to support young visionary entrepreneurs not only in their search for capital but in the development of their project. A philanthropist and patron, he is vice president and executive committee member of Special Olympics International. He was formerly President of the Association of Friends of the Dino Ferrari Center, which is engaged in research for neurological diseases.

Chamath is the founder and CEO of Social Capital, where he makes big bets on transformational ideas, technology, and people. Over his investment career, Chamath has managed a diverse multi-billion dollar portfolio, including externally managed funds as well as his own proprietary balance sheet. As a prolific investor, Chamath has honed an ability to repeatedly identify opportunities in technologies and markets before many of his peers. Social Capital’s early investments in space technology, artificial intelligence and machine learning, electrification, climate science, and blockchain applications have served as a signal to the rest of the market, resulting in meaningful follow-on capital, talent, and attention to its portfolio companies. It has also allowed the firm to generate consistently high returns across stages, sectors, and market conditions.

Facebook

Prior to founding Social Capital, Chamath was an early member of Facebook’s senior executive team from 2007 to 2011, during which time he led the development and launch of new platforms that drove the company’s global growth. Chamath is credited with creating and leading Facebook’s “growth” team, which at the time employed a novel approach using sophisticated data and analytics to underpin product decisions, a must-have discipline for any technology startup today. During this time, Chamath also became well known as a magnet for talent, scaling teams of hundreds and recruiting and helping develop, as their direct manager, several of Facebook’s core business leaders today, including Javier Olivan (Meta COO), Naomi Gleit (head of product and longest serving Meta employee), Alex Schultz (Meta CMO), and Ray Ko (early Growth team hire and current Partner at Social Capital since2013), among others.

Early life and career

Prior to Facebook, Chamath held roles as both an investor and operator. He was a Principal at The Mayfield Fund from 2005 to 2006. Prior to that, he was an executive at AOL, where he led the instant messaging business and was the youngest VP in the company’s history. Chamath began his career on the trading desk at BMO Nesbitt Burns as a derivatives trader. Born in Sri Lanka, Chamath immigrated to Canada at a young age where his family was granted refugee status. A product of public schools, he later graduated with a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

Claudia Parzani, avvocato, è partner di Linklaters, Presidente di Borsa Italiana e Vice Presidente de Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A.. In passato ha ricoperto il ruolo di Presidente di Allianz S.p.A., è stata componente esterno del Consiglio di Amministrazione del Politecnico di Milano e amministratore non esecutivo di primarie società quotate. È inoltre Vice Presidente del gruppo italiano della Commissione Trilaterale e componente dell’Alto Consiglio Direttivo della Scuola di Politiche Economiche e Sociali. Appassionata di inclusione e temi sociali, è stata Presidente di Valore D e oggi è membro dell’organo consultivo di UNHCR Italia, siede nel Comitato Scientifico di Parks - Liberi e Uguali e presiede il Consiglio Strategico della Fondazione Italia per il dono onlus – F.I.Do. È inoltre fondatrice di Breakfast@Linklaters e ambasciatrice per l’Italia della campagna internazionale “Inspiring Girls”. Nel 2022, per il sesto anno consecutivo, Claudia Parzani è stata inclusa nella lista globale delle Women Role Model pubblicata da HERoes. “Eminent Practitioner” secondo la legal directory Chambers & Partners, “Highly Regarded” secondo la legal directory IFLR1000, Claudia Parzani è stata inoltre inserita nella “Hall of Fame” della legal directory Legal500. Claudia Parzani è autrice di “Meravigliose Tour guidato all’interno di noi stesse”, scritto con l’attrice e autrice teatrale, Francesca Isola incentrato sui temi di genere e sul talento. Di recente, nell’ottobre 2022, ha pubblicato, insieme a Sandro Catani, consulente e saggista, “Si vince solo insieme” che descrive, in undici parole, gli strumenti che sono oggi necessari per affrontare le sfide future e sottolinea il valore di diversità, sostenibilità e del capitale umano per qualsiasi organizzazione.

Andrea Pezzi, nato a Ravenna il 21 novembre 1973 è socio fondatore e CEO di MINT (www.mint.ai). Innovatore a tutto tondo, dal 1996 al 2006, come autore e conduttore di MTV, Mediaset e Rai contribuisce a rivoluzionare il linguaggio della televisione italiana. A partire dal 2006 Andrea Pezzi ha dato vita a diverse iniziative imprenditoriali: oltre a OVO (venduta nel 2019 ad un gruppo editoriale inglese), ha fondato GoalScout (venduta nel 2017 al gruppo media cinese) e TheOutplay, piattaforma video ancora oggi integrata nel perimetro di MINT. Certamente il progetto imprenditoriale di maggior successo, MINT nasce nel 2014 con il nome di Myntelligence e evolve negli anni diventando la prima soluzione software di Advertising Resource Management (ARM) al mondo. Nata per automatizzare il processo di acquisto della pubblicità, MINT è oggi una azienda globale che opera in oltre 30 Paesi e grazie ai suoi algoritmi di intelligenza artificiale, garantisce una migliore efficienza e efficacia al marketing delle aziende, portando anche maggiore governance, visibilità e quindi trasparenza alla spesa pubblicitaria. Andrea Pezzi è autore di quattro libri, tra cui “Fuori programma” (Ed. Bompiani) e “Io sono” (Ed. La Nave di Teseo). Io Sono è anche il nome della Associazione che ha fondato nel 2019 allo scopo di ridare forza alla visione dell’essere umano così come definito dai grandi padri della cultura umanista. Dal Marzo 2023, la Andrea Pezzi Foundation continua, con sempre maggiore impegno, quando la Associazione aveva iniziato.

Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss is Founder & CEO at Dance. Dance is an e-bike subscription service founded with the purpose of having a positive impact on health, sustainability and livable cities. With Dance, you have a state-of-the-art e-bike at your disposal, without the hassle of buying and owning. The goal of Dance is to spark a global movement built on a connected community of passionate e-bike riders, ultimately making cities more bike-friendly and livable. Prior to founding Dance, Quidenus-Wahlforss founded SoundCloud in 2007 and served as its Chief Product Officer for 12 years. SoundCloud is the world’s largest open audio platform with over 200 million tracks from 25 million creators heard in 190 countries; what’s next in music is first on SoundCloud.

Alec Ross is a New York Times best-selling author and Distinguished Adjunct Professor at l’Universitá di Bologna Business School. He is the author of the recently published The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People and the Fight for Our Future. His prior book The Industries of the Future has been translated into 24 languages and been a best-seller on 5 continents. He is a Board Partner at Amplo, a global venture capital firm and sits on the board of directors for companies in the fields of technology, finance, manufacturing, human capital and cybersecurity. He has served as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and as a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University School of International & Public Affairs. His writing has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy. His academic writing has appeared as the journal cover articles in publications including the SAIS Review of International Affairs and the NATO Review. During the Obama Administration, he served as Senior Advisor for Innovation to the Secretary of State, a role created for him to help modernize the practice of diplomacy and bring innovative solutions to advance America’s foreign policy interests. Alec served as the Convener for the Technology & Media Policy Committee on Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and served on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. He co-founded and helped lead a technology-focused social enterprise and grew it from modest origins in a basement into a global organization serving millions of low-income people, with programs on four continents. Among recent recognitions:

• U.S. Department of State Distinguished Honor Award
• Oxford University Internet & Society Award
• Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy Magazine
• 2020 National Consumers Union, Massimiliano Dona Award “For his commitment on the frontier of change, his gaze to the future and his step into the reality of a world that in order to change cannot betray the trust of consumers.”

Alec started his career as a sixth grade teacher through Teach for America in inner-city Baltimore.

Esperienze professionali

Maurizio Tamagnini è Fondatore e Amministratore Delegato di FSI (2016). E’ stato Amministratore Delegato di Fondo Strategico Italiano, che ha diretto sin dal suo avvio. In precedenza, ha rivestito il ruolo di Head of Southern Europe for Corporate and Investment Banking per Bank of America Merrill Lynch e di cui è stato membro dell’Executive Committee per l’area EMEA. Nella sua esperienza di oltre vent’anni, ha curato più di un centinaio di operazioni di finanza straordinaria, private equity, debito ed equity. La sua carriera lo ha portato a lavorare a New York, Londra e Milano. È Presidente del Consiglio di Sorveglianza di STMicroelectronics N.V..

Formazione

Ha conseguito una laurea con lode in Economia monetaria internazionale presso l’Università Bocconi di Milano e effettuato studi di specializzazione presso il Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute di Troy (Stato di New York, USA).

Fabrizio was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Borsa Italiana, part of the Euronext Group, in November 2021 and joined the Board of Directors of Euronext NV in May 2022. His appointment as CEO of Borsa Italiana coincided with his return to Italy, after spending more than 20 years in London. From 2014 to 2021 Fabrizio held the position of CEO of MTS, the leading electronic market in Europe for trading fixed income securities. Fabrizio spent the first years of his career in Bank of America in Milan and London, where he was part of the Treasury team responsible for trading government bonds. Before graduating in Economics and Finance at Bocconi University, Fabrizio served as a second lieutenant in the Carabinieri army.

James is Founder and CEO of FNDR, who work hand in hand with transformative founders, harnessing the power of narrative to give voice to their vision and shape their companies’ future. For over a decade, James worked alongside Steve Jobs building Apple’s narrative for ground-breaking products such as the iPod, iTunes, iPhone, App Store & iPad. He founded and was CEO of Apple’s global agency of record, Media Arts Lab and later went on to work directly with Brian Chesky at Airbnb to build the Trips Platform. Before then launching FNDR with his three Partners - helping to drive growth for over 140 founder-led businesses globally, including Evan Spiegel (Snap), Emily Weiss (Glossier), Patrick Spence (Sonos), José Neves (Farfetch), Sara Menker (Gro Intelligence), Jack Conte & Sam Yam (Patreon), Nicolas Julia (Sorare) and Alexandr Wang (Scale.ai) to name just a few. James is also the guest host of Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative Companies’ podcast.

Joe joined Airbnb as a software engineer when the company was just 9 people working in an apartment in San Francisco. He served as Airbnb’s Head of Product for several years. Joe also helped create Airbnb Experiences, the business unit focused on tours and activities. He led the effort to take Experiences from an idea on whiteboard to a business operating in over 1000 cities around the world. Joe left Airbnb after a decade and is now an advisor and investor residing in Bologna, Italy with his family. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Caltech.