Our team

Luca has over thirty years of experience in the Testing, Inspection, Certification and Compliance industry, twenty of them at DNV, one of the leading certification groups worldwide. He has held global responsibility for marketing and sales, operations, ESG and sustainability, finance, customer excellence, strategic planning, M&A and digital transformation, leading international leadership teams across Europe and Asia.

He was Chief Executive Officer of DNV Business Assurance for nine years and subsequently CEO of the group's Supply Chain & Product Assurance division, where he developed the Digital Assurance offering. Earlier he was COO for Asia and Australia, with P&L responsibility for China, Japan, Korea, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, and Country Manager in Japan. He served on the Steering Committee of the VeChain Foundation.

He holds a degree in Economics from Sapienza University of Rome and has completed executive programmes at IMD, INSEAD, UC Berkeley and SDA Bocconi. He is convinced that digital technologies can encourage and enable more sustainable behaviours.

Renato has thirty years of management experience at multinational companies in ICT consulting and certification, more than twenty-five of them at DNV, one of the leading certification groups worldwide. He is an expert in digital trust, innovation and sustainability, with a background in corporate strategy, M&A and emerging technologies. He has led complex innovation and sustainability programmes, as well as company acquisitions and integrations, and developed Digital Assurance solutions based on blockchain and other exponential technologies.

At DNV he was Senior Vice President of the group, with global responsibility for strategy, M&A, digital transformation and innovation, CEO of the Digital Assurance and Supply Chain division, COO for Central and Southern Europe, the Middle East and Africa at DNV Business Assurance, and CEO of DNV in Italy. He served on the Board of Directors and the Steering Committee of the VeChain Foundation, on the boards of Valoritalia and REair, and as board member and advisor to several innovative startups. Earlier he was Executive Director of CoreRatings, a European rating agency for corporate responsibility risks, and Managing Vice President of the consulting division of Etnoteam. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Foundation for Digital Sustainability and of the expert panels that shaped the national blockchain strategies of Italy and San Marino.

He holds a first-class degree in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari and has completed executive programmes at INSEAD, IMD, SDA Bocconi and UC Berkeley.

Annamaria has over thirty years of experience in the ICT industry. She worked on the design of telecommunications systems and software applications before moving into management roles with P&L and business development responsibility at international solution providers. She also sits on the Boards of Directors of several companies and innovative startups. For thirteen years she was a Partner at Reply, where she supported large clients in energy, utilities and finance in defining and executing their digital transformation strategies, with a focus on adopting big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain to improve operational efficiency and growth. Earlier she held senior commercial and project management roles at Hewlett-Packard, EMC, Etnoteam and Ericsson, after starting out at Telecom Italia.

She is Managing Director of Trantor S.r.l., a member of Italian Angels for Growth (IAG) and an angel investor in several digital, healthcare and biotech ventures. She was previously a member of Angels4Women.

She holds a first-class degree in Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bari and a postgraduate master's in Telecommunications from the Scuola Superiore Reiss Romoli, has completed the Women on Board and InTheBoardroom programmes of Valore D, and is an Associate Corporate Coach.