Aon plc, a leading company in professional services, has set up the 'Friends of Genoa' Foundation in Milan,
with the aim of relaunching the city and enhancing and promoting its extraordinary artistic and cultural heritage, in Italy and abroad.
The new Foundation will support restoration projects, promote cultural exchange activities, organizing new visits, promoting projects and scholarships, contributing to the organization of art exhibitions and conferences, animating think tank meetings on innovation and environmental sustainability projects. .
At the helm of the Foundation a high-profile board of directors: president of the publisher Carlo Perrone, owner until 2014 of Il Secolo XIX
, now part of the Gedi publishing group, of which Perrone is now vice president.
Vice-president is Paolo Clerici, president and CEO of Coeclerici.
Five directors:
Pietro Salini,
CEO of the Webuild Group,
Carlo Puri Negri
, member of the Pirelli family today president of Blue Sgr Spa,
Carlo Clavarino
, executive chairman, business international of Aon,
Emanuela Brignone Cattaneo Adorno
, Parisian architect who collaborated with Gae Aulenti to the transformation project of the Museè d'Orsay and
Tea Raggi De Marini
, responsible for the operational management of the Foundation.
An international Advisory Board of great standing to support and promote the activities of the Foundation in the world, which has had the membership to date of some important members such as Stephen Schwarzman, founder and CEO of Blackstone Group (USA), Greg Case, CEO of Aon (USA);
Kwan Yoon, a member of the LG Group industrial family, Korea, André Desmarais - president and largest shareholder of Power Corporation (Canada);
Josè Manuel Entrecanales - president of the Acciona Group, world leader in Renewable Energy (Spain), Rolly Van Rappard, founder and largest shareholder of private Equity Cvc, Netherlands.
The Scientific Committee is currently being set up, which will bring together eminent exponents of the Italian and foreign academic and cultural world.
The Friends of Genoa Foundation will be based in Genoa, in one of the most representative historic buildings in Via Garibaldi, the Palazzo di Angelo Giovanni Spinola.