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Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of multiple companies in the field of communication and events, he headed Centoeventi and the CEV Holding group companies for several years until the takeover by the SG Company Group, where he managed the special projects and format division and of which he is still Business Partner. During this time, he was overseeing the strategies and operations for multiple brands, international start-up projects, focusing in particular on regulated markets, entertainment, and food & beverage.
He has been teaching at the Academy of Communication for more than 10 years and is an active member of Italian Angels for Growth, one of Italy’s foremost business angel groups, where he is responsible for sustainability verticals. He has direct stakes in numerous start-ups in the Tourism, Entertainment, Food & Beverage and Communication industries.
He joined Lifegate in 2021, as co-founder of Lifegate way, the first ecosystem of sustainable start-ups with the mission of creating the first Italian hub aiming at open innovation in the sustainability sector, promoting the values of impact investing.
He was one of the co-founders of LifeGate Spa in April 2000, and was initially responsible for establishing LifeGate Radio and then for the digital evolution of the platform and social media.
His managerial and communication experience, culminating in the creation of a community that today counts over 5 million people, enabled him to acquire the languages, methods and tools devised for a target sensitive to sustainable development issues.
Since January 2014 he has been CEO of the LifeGate group, now a leader in Italy for sustainability through consulting, communication, energy and territorial environmental projects.
As a corporate lawyer and co-founder of Uno Quattro Studio Legale law offices, Corrado is mainly responsible for M&A transactions, corporate and commercial contracts.
He supports entrepreneurs, start-uppers and investors in acquisitions and sales of assets (shareholdings, businesses etc.), in fundraising and in investment activities (NDA, LOI, Due Diligence, Investment Agreements, SPAs, Shareholders’ Agreements, SFPs, etc.).
He started working with the Lifegate Group in 2018 and, in March 2021, he was one of the founding partners of LifeGate Way Srl Società Benefit. Since June 2021, he has been on the Board of Directors of this Group company dedicated to open innovation and the creation of an ecosystem of sustainable native start-ups.
Senior Executive and General Manager with 20 years’ experience in General Management, Start-up Management, Sales & Marketing and Operations.
Recognized in Italy as an expert in digital media, digital marketing and e-commerce, bringing together an objective-driven attitude with a long-term vision nurtured by continuous research and curiosity.
With a degree in services design, she has always had a keen interest in both social and environmental sustainability, and has recently completed a master’s degree in Business Sustainability and one in Future Literacy.
She has worked both in agencies and as a freelancer, mainly in communication, production and strategy for both online and offline multichannel campaigns.
She has been involved in content creation for the web for many years, both for journalistic platforms and for the travel blog she founded to document her tour of the world made thanks to social media in 2017.
Scientific director of LifeGate, founder in 2001 of Zero Impact®, the world’s first project to fight climate change.
He was editorial director of Expo Milano 2015, on the board of directors of ENEA, CESI Ricerche, ERSE, and on the European Commission’s Ecolabel and Ecoaudit committee.
Significant recognitions include: the Swiss-American “Venture Leaders” award, the appointment as NETS Ambassador for coaching high-tech start-ups, the Rotary Award for Professionalism, and the “Paul Harris Fellow” recognition.
Elga accompanies people and organisations in their transformational development and evolution towards organisational positivity. Chief Happiness Officer, Self-Science Trainer, Certified by Insead as Independent Board Member and Director, Innovation Manager, Professional Coach, expert in organisational and transformational change for individuals and systems.
She promotes self-awareness and self-empowerment, facilitates board dynamics, coaches people in the development of potential, team and group coaching techniques, certified by Hogan for assessment and psychometric tests.
Skilled in the strategy of bringing together teams and systems, in the process and empowerment of human capital with a high degree of internal and external engagement. Focused on identifying Purpose as a guidance tool, focused on innovation and talent development, she has a proven ability to conceive, incubate and rapidly advance start-ups to innovate systems.
Visionary and results-focused, she is successful in creating and coaching leaders and teams committed to sustainable performance growth, while respecting personal and systemic positivity. Driven by entrepreneurial and managerial experience in international contexts, she has been a journalist since 1989.
Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Politecnico di Torino university and a number of Business Schools.
He is co-director of the International Master in Industrial Management (IMIM) and other postgraduate courses.
He is involved in research, training and consulting in the field of innovation and ethical, sustainable and socially relevant entrepreneurship.
He is the author of 8 books and more than 150 scientific articles, six of which have been published in some of the top 50 journals as ranked by the Financial Times.
He founded and coordinates the international research team called Social Innovation Monitor (SIM).
He founded and mentors many start-ups and not-for-profit organisations including the Social Innovation Teams (SIT) community.
University Degree in Economics, postgraduate courses in finance and management, Guerino started his career in Engineering and Costruction, working for an international group where he held C-level positions for many years.
Being passionate about and an expert in contemporary and visual arts, in 1994 he discovered new media and set up “Hyphen Creatività Multimediale”, a real digital pioneer in the Italian market, working for brands such as Interbrand, Harley Davidson, Canon, Agippetroli, Siemens, Venice Biennale and many others.
Hyphen gained such a great reputation as creative and digital partner that in 2001 it was acquired by Ogilvy. This was an exciting new adventure for Guerino who became Managing Director of OgilvyOne and OgilvyInteractive.
In July 2005, Guerino was appointed Chairman and CEO of the Ogilvy & Mather Group Italy and in November 2018, hebecame Chairman of Ogilvy Italy and joined Ogilvy’s Consulting practice in EMEA, specialising in Digital Transformation Engagements.
He has been the Chairman of LifeGate Cansulting and Media since 2020.
