With 25 years of entrepreneurship, sustainability and technology leadership experience, Andrea brings a hands-on practical approach to partnering with Investors, Corporate Boards, Management Teams, Customers and IFIs to create accelerated returns, resilient investment, long-term growth, and market leadership. Andrea Specializes in Resilience, Investment Promotion, Women Entrepreneurship and Empowerment Technologies. Andrea was the Senior Risk Management Coordinator for the World Bank in the Middle East for 8 years and managed large-scale infrastructure and risk management projects in fragile states. Andrea continues to advise the International Financial Institutions, sovereign governments and entrepreneurs and investors on clean tech, sustainability, impact investments and green growth. Andrea is a Science and Foreign Policy Graduate from Georgetown University in Washington DC and has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Foreign Languages from Bologna University, Italy.
Giuseppe Grimaldi is an international business and financial advisor with more than 25 years of professional experience in capital markets, real estate, private equity, corporate, sustainability and entrepreneurship. Mr. Grimaldi is the founder of Grimaldi & Partners, a Swiss consultant firm who advised many companies all over the word for two decades till 2020 and, as a leader of these financial institutions, has led investments in early stage and mature technology, healthcare, mining and real estate companies in Latin America, Africa, Switzerland and Europe. Mr. Grimaldi has extensive international experience in precious metals and renewable energies technologies and continues to advise numerous companies in Europe, Africa and Latin America. Mr Grimaldi holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Naples, Italy.