THE FOUNDATION BOARD

Claudia Segre

President and Founder


His 33-year career as a trader and manager in finance developed in leading Italian banks. He specialised in international markets in the in-depth study of global geopolitical dynamics and related economic-financial correlations. She holds operational and managerial roles in the parent companies of Gruppo Intesa, Unicredit and Credem.

In 2016, she founded Global Thinking Foundation in Italy and France. In her International Relations activities with the IMF and OECD, she has combined her commitment to Womenomics with teaching in Financial Education and Gender Advocacy since 1997. Member of the Expert Council of the VI Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies, Chairman of the Board of Education of ACI FX International from 2012 to 2015, now Honorary Member. A Founding Member of ASSIOM FOREX – former Vice-President of ASSIOM and active in the Association since 1993 – she was Secretary General of ASSIOM FOREX from 2009 to 2016 and currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Publications since 2006 and Member of the Board of Directors and of the Technical and Scientific Committee.

Claudia Segre is a leading figure in sustainable finance and fintech. Vice-President of AssoFintech, member of the Technical and Scientific Committee of Terre des Hommes Italia, member of the Women’s Inclusion Steering Committee and Contact Person for the GDL Technology. Furthermore, former member of the Board of Directors of the Forum for Sustainable Finance and member, 2022/2024, of the Equal Opportunities Commission of the Accademia dei Lincei.

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She is also a member of the Advisory Body of the Guarantor for the Protection of Victims of Crime of the Lombardy Region and of the Technical and Scientific Committee of the Observatory on Violence against Women and Domestic Violence at the Department of Equal Opportunities of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers and a consultant to the Parliamentary Commission of Enquiry on Femicide and all forms of gender-based violence.

Named one of the Top 100 Italian Women of Success 2019 by Forbes, she is among the Top 100 Global Women in Leadership by GCPIT India 2021.
She is co-author of the book “The Italy of Autonomies. At the COVID-19 test”. Co-author of the Publication: “Financial Inclusion: The importance of financial literacy and the promotion of better labour market outcomes for women and youth” for T6/G20 2021 and “The Financial Wellbeing Index”: “Donne Al Quadrato” and the relevant impact measurement’ for ISPCAN 2021

TEDx speaker: in 2021 in Riesi on the theme ‘Islands towards new frontiers’ and in 2023 in Cagliari on the theme ‘Human Capital’. Appointed in 2023 Italy Country Chair AI,Data & Cybersecurity by G100: Mission Million.
Former Co-Chair Women7, the official civil commitment group of the G7 Summit, now Women7 Italy Delegate for G7 Canada and Advisor Working Group Emerging Technologies.

Ortali Davide

Financial Markets and Governance

Ortali Davide began his career at Banca Popolare di Ravenna and then in 1989 at CME Commissionaria di Borsa with the qualification of “Procuratore alle grida” at Borsa Italiana . In 1991 he became Head of the Bond Market at Monte Paschi Mercato Sim (later Intermonte Sim). In 1992 she became a member of the Borsa Italiana/Consob Working Group for the transition from the ‘grid’ to the ‘telematic’ stock exchange. Since 2001, he has also been responsible for the Treasury of the Intermonte Group. From 1998 to 2005, he was appointed “Revisore dei Conti dell’Associazione Assobat“, then “Assiom“; subsequently, from 2005 to 2012, he became a member of the Board of Directors of the Assiom Association, then Assiom Forex, and in 2009 he became one of the “Founding Members of the Assiom Forex Association“.

Also in 2005, he became a Founding Member, Managing Member and Treasurer of the “Vivisarpi” Neighbourhood Association.

Finally, from 2013 to 2015 he was appointed Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Istituto Comprensivo Giusti-Panzini.

Alessandra Orlando

Vice President – Regulations and Taxation

Alessandra Orlando, former Co-ordinating Secretary of Gruppo Banca Popolare, is elected in 2013 as part of the National Executive of FISAC, CGIL, and then Secretary General of FISAC CGIL Lombardy.

Chiara Gironi

D&I Communication

Marketing and communications manager in TIGROS S.p.A. since 2019.

Chiara Gironi, graduated in Public Relations at IULM University in Milan with a thesis in semiotics, has gained more than 20 years of professional experience in Companies such as Chiquita, Giochi Preziosi, Barilla, McCann World Group.

She has always been curious and interested in social trends, social and behavioral dynamics and the influences that communication can exert on them.

Massimo Mazzocchi

Post Trading and Settlement

Massimo Mazzocchi began his career in 1985 with Caboto SIM, which was transformed following mergers and acquisitions into Intesa Sanpaolo’s current Operations Department, holding roles of increasing complexity over time. Since 2006 he has held the position of Head of the Securities Regulation Office.

He has collaborated in the past with AIOTE (Italian Association of Foreign Securities Operators) and for years with ASSIOM FOREX as a teacher on the functioning of regulation in financial markets.