Ornella Desirée Bellia is currently a judge of the FIFA Players Status Sub-Committee and the Head of Legal Affairs of the European Leagues, an organization comprising the top football leagues, including the Premier League, LaLiga, the Bundesliga and Serie A. In this role, she provides strategic and legal advice to the Board of Directors, the President and the CEO and assists the organization on all external matters concerning the relationship with the football stakeholders.

She has gained valuable experience within the global sports industry having worked for an Italian football club, leading law firms in Brazil, Spain, Italy and the U.K. and currently working for sports institutions in Switzerland. In academics, Ornella is a lecturer at several Sports Law and Sports Management Masters. She is also regular speaker at international conferences in the football and entertainment industry. She holds an LL.M in International Sports Law (Instituto Superior de Derecho y Economía – Madrid), a Diploma in Negotiation and Leadeship (Harvard Law School – Boston), and has taken part in the UEFA Women’s Leadership Programme, a course organized by UEFA to promote the participatition of women in football’s decision-making bodies.

Marco Cerritelli regularly assists Italian and foreign clients to develop, carry out and finance (including according to the LMA standards and through the issue of securities) investments in infrastructure. He has gained significant experience in the main regulated sectors, mainly focusing on the areas of transport, health and sport related assets. In this context, he dealt with several market first and pathfinders. His assistance also includes the interventions made both on the primary and secondary market by infrastructure funds.

Marco specializes in project finance transactions and private public partnership (PPP), he is regularly listed on the main national and international directories (Chambers, IFLR, Legal500). He is ranked among the leading individuals in project finance and infrastructure areas by Chambers. He received the award as “Public Finance Professional of the Year” at the Top Legal Awards 2018 and was named “Project Finance Lawyer of the Year” in 2017 by Corporate International magazine.

Marco Cerritelli joined the Firm in 2019 as a Partner. Previously, he carried out his professional activity at leading national and international law firms as a partner. Before working on his own, he gained in-house experiences both in Italy and in London, holding positions of increasing responsibility. In this capacity, he was manager of the legal department of the bank dedicated to public finance and the infrastructure of a leading banking group.

Engineering degree and MBA Master’s Degree

More than 15 years of experiences in the sport sponsorship business:

• 12 years in the marketing & sponsorship department of Infront Italy with growing responsibilities
• 4 years in the marketing & sponsorship department of XX Winter Olympics Organizers.

Extensive other marketing experiences in diverse industries.

Corrado Ferriani is Adjunct Professor of Corporate Criminal Law and Risk Management at the Ecampus University of Novedrate. He has been a Lecturer at the Politecnico di Milano a.a. 2018/2019 in the Degree Course in Architecture Sciences “The formation of the budget in construction and real estate development companies” Estimo course, in the second level Master’s Degree in Estimation and Real Estate Evaluation in the “Finance and Real Estate Investments” module and in the Technical Consultants Training Course in the “Real estate execution procedures and telematic process” module.

The professional activity that he carries out is mainly directed to the assumption of the qualification of technical consultant and expert for the Judicial Authority and for the private part, in criminal and civil proceedings concerning budget, accounting, taxes and financial operations; moreover, he is a consultant and auxiliary in the solution of the business crisis and in bankruptcy proceedings.

As part of the aforementioned activities, he deals with cases concerning corporate restructuring, insolvency procedures and judicial proceedings (civil and criminal) – many of which are of national and international media interest.

He is a member of numerous institutional scientific committees and specialized magazines, with many publications, a speaker in many conferences, and a member of the Boards of Statutory Auditors of companies.

Since 2008, Matteo Forte has been part of the Italian branch of a multinational entertainment company, Stage Entertainment, first as Commercial Director, for two years, and then as Managing Director and Board Member.

He obtained a joint Degree between Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Milan and Università di Verona in “Educational Sciences – Expert in the educational processes” with a post-graduate education completed with a Master in General Management at ISTUD.

Currently, he is also guest speaker at Bocconi University for the Master in Arts Management and Administration (MAMA), for the Master in Management of International Arts (MMIAM) and for the business management classes in Arts and Cultural Policy, as well as researcher and speaker at Cattolica University for MIB – Master International Business and classes and Fondazione ISTUD for the Master in Marketing Management.

He started at Fondazione ISTUD almost 20 years ago being researcher, consultant and trainer in organization filed teaching for 5 years in master classes and in many different multinational companies.

He can boast on a solid experience in managing large group of people with many different attitudes and running a profitable company in a very competitive and complex market.

A third-generation architect, Matt became president of ROSSETTI in 1999 and has grown the company into an internationally-recognized sports and entertainment design firm.

Matt leads the firm’s framework for innovative thinking. He believes architecture must have a dimension beyond form and function in order to meet a client’s vision and provide value. To further this goal, Matt founded Return on Design™, ROSSETTI’s unique approach for generating value through design solutions.

His passion for urban revitalization has driven the firm’s methodology to integrate sports with commercial mixed use. He was elevated to the College of Fellows by the AIA for his expertise, study and work in the field of sports and entertainment. Matt’s notable sports projects include five MLS stadiums across the United States; The Miami Open Tennis Tournament; The Inverted Bowl; USTA National Tennis Center, home of the U.S. Open; Tele2 Arena in Stockholm, Sweden; the Green Bay Packers’ ‘Titletown District’ sports anchored development; and Incheon United Stadium and Sungui Arena Park in Incheon, South Korea.

Andrea S. Togni is an intercultural and adaptable person, goal oriented, with experience in several managerial tasks covering project-, people-, company management and acquisitions (M&A).
He continuously looks for a technical, cultural and managerial evolution, to maximize competences in the field of organization, management, administration and innovation.

Specialties: Relationship Management, People & Company Management, Leadership, Project Management, Private Banking, Management of H- / UHNWI portfolios & issues, Early Stage Investments (Start-Up), Biotech Private Equity Investments, Executive Boards, Family Organization &
Intergenerational Planning, M&A.

Fausto spent 15 years in the finance Industry, working with many media, sports & internet companies globally.

Seeing sports clubs struggle to get traditional funding, and the growing tech, social and alternative finance revolution, the idea of Tifosy sparked in his mind.