Our new Advsiory Council

Massimo Giordano is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, advising leading financial institutions across Europe and Latin America as well as family businesses and private-capital investors. He previously served as Managing Partner for Europe (2023–2025) and for the Mediterranean office (2017–2023) and was a member of McKinsey’s Shareholder Council from 2020 to 2024. Before joining McKinsey, he worked in corporate finance at KPMG and at Citibank. Since 2007, he has also served as Chairman of Foundation Generation Italy, promoting youth development and employability.

Enrico Letta served as Prime Minister of Italy from 2013 to 2014. Currently, he is the Dean of the IE School of Politics, Economics, and Global Affairs at IE University, President of the Jacques Delors Institute and President of AREL. In September 2023 the European institutions tasked him with the elaboration a Report on the Future of the Single Market.  From March 2021 to February 2023, he was the National Secretary of the Democratic Party in Italy. Prior to that, from 2015 to 2021, he was Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris. In 2019, he was appointed President of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) for a two-year term. Earlier in his career, Letta served as Minister for EU Affairs, Minister for Industry, Trade and Crafts, Minister for Industry and Foreign Trade and Undersecretary of State to Prime Minister Romano Prodi. 

Sylvie Matherat is currently holding several non-executive positions in financial entities, Supervisory Boards like Barclays Europe, CCF group (French retail) and Hamburg Commercial Bank. She was Chair of the Supervisory Board of DWS and in 2018, she was elected Chair of the Global Financial Market Association (GFMA). After joining Deutsche Bank group in 2014, Matherat was appointed to its management board in 2015, where she was in charge of non-financial risks (compliance) and regulatory implementation. Sylvie began her career in the French banking supervisory authority, then moved to the French central bank, where she was appointed Deputy Director General in 2011. She represented France from 2006 to 2014 on the Basel Committee, where she chaired several sub committees and participated to the development of Basel 3.

Fleur Pellerin founded Korelya Capital in 2016 after serving as France’s Minister for Digital Economy, Foreign Trade, and Culture. A graduate of ESSEC, Sciences Po, and ENA, she began her career at the French Court of Auditors. At Korelya, she leads €800M+ in investments across Europe and South Korea, supporting high-growth tech companies including several unicorns such as Mistral, Ledger, and Bolt. Fleur also serves on the boards of major corporations and cultural institutions and chairs the ESG Committee of Crédit Mutuel.

Prof. Dr. Axel A. Weber is President of the Center for Financial Studies at the House of Finance at Goethe University Frankfurt. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of RAISIN SE, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the VISA Economic Empowerment Institute, Chairman of the Trilateral Commission Europe, and a member of the Group of Thirty. Weber was Chairman of UBS Group AG in Zurich (2012–2022) and Chairman of the Institute of International Finance (IIF). He was President of the Deutsche Bundesbank in Frankfurt (2004–2011) and a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements, German Governor of the International Monetary Fund, and a member of the G7 and G20 Ministers and Governors. His academic career includes professorships in international economics, monetary theory, and economic theory at the universities of Cologne, Frankfurt, and Bonn, as well as a visiting professorship at the University of Chicago Booth School.

Ron Zuckerman has spent over 35 years as an entrepreneur and investor in the high-tech industry, with involvement in more than 120 technology startups. He founded and led several NASDAQ-listed software companies, including Sapiens International and Precise Software Solutions, and founded, invested or served on the boards of Attunity, RayV, WhipMedia, GVT Telecom, Waze, and many others. He has been a partner and investor in multiple venture funds, including Magma Venture Partners, Raine, and Compound. In 2000, he was recognized by the World Economic Forum as one of the 50 most influential technology pioneers worldwide. Together with his wife Michaela Bercu Zuckerman, he co-founded Tribu, a nonprofit using a mobile app to connect volunteers with those in need, supporting over 300K users and 20M volunteering acts annually.