Andrea Illy is the Chairman of illycaffè S.p.A.. For twenty-two years he was CEO. He represents the third generation of the Trieste-based family.

He is co-Chair of the Regenerative Society Foundation, created in 2020 with the goal of engaging as many businesses as possible in the journey toward a new model of regenerative socio-economic development.

He was chairman of the Altagamma Foundation (2013-2019).

He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Italy since 2013 and Chairman of the Identity and Image Committee since 2022.

He is Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Trieste Laboratory on Quantitative Sustainability (LTSQ) and since September 2023 he is a member of The Club of Rome.

His numerous professional recognitions include: Entrepreneur of the Year (Ernst & Young, 2004), Capo d'Orlando 2013, Guido Carli 2014. In 2018 he was appointed Cavaliere del Lavoro by the President of the Italian Republic, and in 2021 he received the Leonardo Award in the presence of the President of the Italian Republic.

He received a degree in Chemistry from the University of Trieste and an Executive Master's degree from SDA Bocconi in Milan. He earned a certificate from Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School. He studied Total Quality Management in Japan, Innovation at MIT Boston, Exponential Technologies at Singularity University and Complexity Science at Oxford University.

Among his many positions as a top coffee expert: President of ASIC (1999-2014); Advisor and Chairman of the Sustainability Committee of D.E. Master Blender 1753 (2012-2013); Chairman of the Promotion and Market Development Committee of the International Coffee Organization (2012-2015), for which he oversaw the largest celebration in the history of coffee at EXPO Milan 2015.

He published for Academic Press Espresso Coffee: The Chemistry of Quality (1995). He is the author of The Coffee Dream (Codice Edizioni, 2015). In 2018 he published Italia Felix (Piemme) and edited with Marco Fortis Altagamma: Strategies for Italy of Excellence (Skyra).

He graduated with Highest Honors at Economics from Bocconi University; holds an MBA from Stanford, where he was a Fullbright Fellow.

Enrico Cucchiani was Group CEO of Intesa Sanpaolo. Previously he was a member of the Vorstang (Executive Board) of Allianz, in Munich, where he was responsible for the EU markets (except Germany), Latin America, Africa and, globally Property and Casualty, the most important business; in this role he was also Chairman and CEO of Allianz Italia. Previously he led the Gucci Group. His experience in McKinsey, in the Italian, London and New York offices, was the most relevant after his formal education.

He is a member of the boards of Piraeus Bank and Terna; Senior Advisor to: W.H. Harper, a San Francisco Venture Capital Firm; Alpha Ring, San Francisco; SaluberMD, a global technology leader in e-medicine.

In the non-profit sector:

• Bocconi Univerity: Member of the Board of Directors; of the Executive Committee; of the International Advisory Council.

• Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel: member of the Board

• ISPI: Member of the Board

• Trilateral Commission: Member of the International Executive Committee and Chairman of the Italian Delegation

In the past, Mr. Cucchiani has served on numerous boards, such as: UniCredit; Pirelli; Beni Stabili; Ospedale San Raffaele (Chairman); RSA Insurance Group, London; he was also a member of the Advisory Council of Stanford

Honorary titles and awards: ‘Cavaliere del Lavoro’, highest honorary title appointed by the President of the Italian Republic; Bocconi University: ‘Man of the Year 2006’.

After graduating with full marks in Management of International Firms at Luigi Bocconi University, Cristina Scocchia completed a PhD in Business Administration at the University of Torino.

She started her career at Procter&Gamble, where since 1997 she held positions of increasing responsibility working on mature and emerging markets until she was appointed in 2012 as Cosmetics International Operations Division leader, with the responsibility of supervising the brands in her portfolio in over 70 countries throughout the world.

From 2014 to 2017, she served as Chief Executive Officer of L’Oréal Italia and she led the return to growth of the company in a challenging economic environment. 

From July 2017 to December 2021, she acted as Chief Executive Officer of KIKO, a leading make up company that she has led to a successful turnaround thanks to a business plan based on product innovation, digital transformation and geographical expansion in Asia and the Middle East.

Since January 2022 she is Chief Executive Officer of illycaffè.
 
Speaker and lecturer in many national and international conventions and conferences related to enterprise development, leadership, diversity and sustainability, Dr. Scocchia is also a member of the Board of Directors of EssilorLuxottica and Fincantieri of which she is also Chairman of the Nomination Committee.

In June 2019 she was awarded the Legion d'Honneur. In 2022, Forbes and Fortune included her in the prestigious ranking of the most influential female leaders.

Anna Illy graduated in 1977 from the "Liceo Scientifico G. Galilei" in Trieste and enriched her education with specialization schools in Public Relations and Marketing.

She joined the family business in 1978, after an experience in a local shipping agency, also dealing with transport and logistics. She also began training in coffee science by holding the secretariat of the P.E.C. (Physiological Effects of Coffee) for a few years and attending numerous editions of the A.S.I.C. (Association for Science and Information on Coffee - Paris) Colloquia on coffee chemistry.

Since 1992 she has been part of the Board of Directors of illycaffè S.p.A.; since 1995 she has been in charge of strategic procurement, development and coordination of projects and initiatives relating to the strategy and marketing of green coffee procurement.

Since the first edition, in 1991, of the "Premio Brasil de Qualidade do Café para Espresso" Anna Illy has been one of the key figures of the initiative, having the opportunity to develop, in a particularly important and delicate sector, the knowledge already acquired both in the technical field of green coffee and in marketing.

In 2000, in collaboration with the University of São Paulo, she developed the "Universidade illy do Café", Brazil’s first academy entirely dedicated to the transfer of knowledge on coffee cultivation to farmers and professionals; in the same year she participated in the creation of the "Clube illy do Café", which brings together all Brazilian illycaffè suppliers.

From 2006 to 2020 she was Honorary Consul of Guatemala.

Since 2008, she has been Vice President of the Ernesto Illy Foundation, of which she became Chairman in 2020.

In 2019 she became Chairman of the Board of Directors of the family holding Gruppo Illy S.p.A.

Robert F. Agostinelli was born in Rochester, New York. A graduate of St. John Fisher College, he holds an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Agostinelli co-founded Rhône in 1996 

Prior to founding Rhône, he was Senior Managing Director at Lazard Frères banking group with responsibility for international banking business. Before joining Lazard, Mr. Agostinelli was with Goldman Sachs, where he founded its international mergers and acquisitions business in London. He also worked for Lord Jacob Rothschild at RIT in London.

Mr. Agostinelli is active in numerous philanthropic activities, including as a board member and former chairman of the National Review Institute, a member of the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors, and as a founding supporter of the Bush Institute. He is chairman of the National Memorial Day Parade and is a trustee of the Lt. Michael P. Murphy Navy Seal Museum, a founder and board member of the Friends of Israel. He is also a long-time board member of the Italian-American Cancer Research Foundation. 

He has been on the Board of Directors of illycaffè since 25.02.2021.

Marianne Kirkegaard served as CEO of Baker & Baker (formerly CSM Bakery Solutions) from 2016 until August 2021. Following the completion of the sale of Baker & Baker’s North American business (Brill) in August 2021, Ms. Kirkegaard became Baker & Baker’s Executive Chairman. 

Ms. Kirkegaard holds a Bachelor of International Business and an MBA from Copenhagen Business School. Prior to joining Baker & Baker in 2011, as Global Chief Commercial Officer, Ms. Kirkegaard served in various roles and geographies at Unilever – where she began her career in 1993 – most recently as Unilever’s Chief Commercial Officer of CEE. 

She became a Senior Advisor to Rhône in 2021 and a Managing Director in 2023 and serves as a Director on the Boards of illycaffè and Wahoo Fitness, in addition to her Executive Chairman role on Baker & Baker’s Board. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Pandora Jewelry and the Faerch Group. 

Raffaele Jerusalmi was born in Milan. He graduated in Economic and Social Disciplines from Bocconi University in 1988.

In the same year, he started working at Cimo SpA in Milan. In 1993, he moved to London where he headed the Italian fixed income trading divisions of Credit Suisse First Boston and was also a member of the Proprietary Trading Group, for five years until 1998.

In 1998, he joined Borsa Italiana as head of equity, derivatives and fixed income markets, a position he held until 2007, when, following the integration of Borsa Italiana with LSE, he became head of derivatives for the London Stock Exchange Group.

Since April 2010 he has been CEO of Borsa Italiana Group. In June of the same year he joined the board of the London Stock Exchange Group, where he was also a member of the executive committee and Global Director of the Capital Market Division.

In 2013, he launched the programme ‘Conversazioni in Borsa: incontri con i protagonisti.
In 2014, Borsa launched Rivelazioni, an initiative to help Italian museums restore their paintings. In 2018, Borsa was among the winners of the I mecenati del XX secolo (Patrons of the 20th Century) prize and was awarded by the President of the Italian Republic.

He was chairman of Elite, the stock exchange programme launched in 2012 to support the development of Italian, European and non-European small and medium-sized enterprises that was then exported in more than 40 countries.

He left LSEG and Borsa Italiana in December 2021 after having successfully completed the sale of Borsa Italiana Group to Euronext . 

On 2 June 2019, he was appointed ‘Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della repubblica Italiana’ by the President of the Italian Republic.

Since February 2022, he is a senior advisor at Pictet Bank.

He has been a member of the Board of Directors of illycaffè since 20 June 2022.

Carolyn Dittmeier was born in Salem, Massachusetts (USA). She graduated in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

She started her career in 1978 in the United States at a major financial audit firm. From 1987 she was head of financial reporting and then of internal audit for the Montedison Group. In 1999, she launched and led KPMG’s corporate governance services practice, and from 2002 to 2014 she was responsible for the internal control and audit function of the Poste Italiane Group.

In the period from 2004 to 2014 she also served leadership positions in the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) including vice president IIA, president of the European Confederation of Internal Auditing Institutes-ECIIA and president of the Italian Internal Auditors Association.

In the period from 2014 to April 2023, she acted as Chair of the board of statutory auditors of Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A; other previous board roles include director and chair of the risk and control committee of Autogrill and Italmobiliare. 

Since April 2019, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of illycaffè, where she chairs the control and risk committee.

She also currently serves as:

• independent director of ENI SpA, presiding the nomination committee and member of the risk and control committee; 

• independent director of Alpha Bank (Greece) presiding the Audit committee and member of the corporate governance, sustainability and nomination committee with an supervisory role over ESG issues;

• advisor, as member of the audit committee, of Ferrero International,

• member of the statutory board of auditors of Moncler SpA and of the Foundation Bologna University Business School

She is the author of books on the areas of risk governance, internal control and audit and university lecturer. 

Marina Migliorato was born in Messina. Graduated cum laude in International Political Science at the University of Florence, she obtained postgraduate qualifications at Bocconi University and Cambridge University.

Many years of experience in the field of Sustainability as a strategic driver for the creation of value in multinational companies, in the integration of ESG issues in corporate strategy and governance, in planning and stakeholder involvement.

She began working for Unicef and various NGOs, then as advisor on environmental issues and consumer rights. From 1999 to 2020 she worked in the Enel Group (Responsibility for Institutional Affairs and Internal Communication). Head of CSR since 2009 and Head of Sustainability Innovation of the Group since 2014.

Member of the United Nations Global Compact LEAD's Expert Group, strengthening the reputation of the ENEL Group in the institutional processes of the UN, including the UN Agenda 2030 and the evolution of the SDGs.

Deep knowledge of international reporting standards. From 2017 to 2020 member of the GRI Stakeholders Council and of the UN GC-GRI Action Platform for the SDGs.

Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of CSR Europe (2016 – 2020), contributes to the definition and implementation of the EU sustainability agenda for fair and inclusive economic growth.

Speaker at numerous national and international conferences and teacher at the Luiss MBA and training courses on sustainability and gender diversity.

Today she is a member of the secretariat of ASVIS, of the "Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice" Foundation and of the Unindustria Study Center, of the Symbola Foundation for Italian qualities, of the OIBR Foundation (Italian Organization for Business Reporting), of the Bellisario Foundation (Mela d' oro for Management in 2012). She is a senior advisor on sustainability issues.

She joined illycaffe’s Board of Directors on 25.02.2021 and chairs the Sustainability Committee.

Paola Cillo is an Associate Professor of Management & Technology at Bocconi University. She graduated with honours in Economics and Management and received her PhD in Management from Bocconi University at Bocconi University.

Paola Cillo’s research focuses on how companies leverage technology and big data to change and innovate. Over the years, she has worked with many companies in luxury and retail, FMCG, and tech startups.

Since January 2021 she serves as Associate Dean for Research at SDA Bocconi School of Management, coordinating 16 Research Labs and tailor-made research projects for firms and financial institutions.

From January 2016 to September 2020, she was lead researcher at Gucci Research Lab, a Bocconi research lab funded by Gucci for the development of applied research on innovation in creative organizations. 

Since September 2016, she has been the academic coordinator of the Concentration in Luxury Business Management of the SDA Bocconi School of Management Full Time MBA program.

From 2016 to 2020 she served as Deputy Director of the Department of Management & Technology at Bocconi University.

She served as Director of the Master of Science in Economics and Management of Innovation and Technology (2011-2016) at Bocconi University.

She was Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College (2008) and Visiting Professor at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota (2005). She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Snider Entrepreneurial Research Center of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania in 1999-2000. 
She also sits on the Board of Directors of Miroglio Fashion and of Generali Insurance Asset Management (GIAM) SGR. She served in the Board of Trustees of the American School of Milan (2016-2019).

She joined illycaffe’s Board of Directors on 20 June 2022.

Giovanni Zoppas was born in Vittorio Veneto. He graduated with honours in Political Economics from Bocconi University.

He began his professional career in 1984 at Andersen Consulting.

Subsequently, from 1993 to 2000, he held various positions in the Benetton Group until he reached the position of Group Administration and Control Director.

After an experience as CFO in the pharmaceutical company Glaxosmithkline, he was General Manager of Nordica SpA from 2003 to 2006. 

In 2006 he joined Gruppo Coin as CFO and COO and a member of the Board of Directors and took over the positions of CFO and General Manager of the Coin and Upim Divisions in the Group.

In January 2012, he joined the Marcolin Group where he served as Group CEO and General Manager. Under his leadership Marcolin grew from 200 to almost 500 million in turnover and reached around 2000 employees, opening a new factory in Fortogna in 2005 that employed over 100 people.

As of October 2017, Giovanni Zoppas was appointed CEO of Thélios, the joint venture between LVMH and the Marcolin Group announced in the same year and to whose birth he made an essential contribution.

In the following years, with an investment of more than 70 million euro for the construction of the 20,000 square meter production site in Longarone, Thelios now employs more than 400 people. In 2021, after successfully launching the Dior brand, he leaves Thelios. 

Today, he is CEO and GM at Tecnica Group, a leading Italian group in the sports sector.

He also holds the positions of Chairman of Estenergy SpA (Hera Group) and of Independent Director of the listed Asco Piave SpA.

He has been a member of the Board of Directors of illycaffè since 20 June 2022.

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

From the very beginning, illycaffè has steered its business strategy towards a sustainable model based on pursuing the common good. This approach has been strengthened over time, as evidenced by its choice to change its bylaws to become a Benefit Corporation and having obtained the B Corp certification. The company’s commitment to abide by the most stringent environmental and social standards, transparency, and accountability translates into a continuous improvement process along its entire value chain. This includes guaranteeing adequate welfare standards for all livestock and for the ingredients used in illy products. As of 2021, all directly managed illy stores use cage-free eggs only, and illycaffè has placed the same obligation concerning all products available from the illy purchasing platform also on illy franchisees.  In 2022 illycaffè has extended this obligation to its entire global franchising network, requiring its franchisees to commit to using cage-free eggs only for all food products by 2025.