Stefano Caselli is Vice Rector for International Affairs and Full Professor of Banking and Finance at Department of Finance of Bocconi University in Milan. He conducts research at domestic and international levels and has written about private equity, SME's and family business financing, corporate finance, corporate banking and banking strategy. He is a member of the scientific committees of CER (Centro Europa Ricerche in Rome), ECMI (European Capital Market Institute in Bruxelles), EVCA (European Private Equity and Venture Capital Association for PEREP Group in Bruxelles), ENTER (the research centre for entrepreneurship of Bocconi University) and CAREFIN (the research centre for financial innovation of Bocconi University). He serves as an independent director on several boards of corporations and financial institutions and has supported many companies and institutions as strategic consultant (among them, Borsa Italiana for Elite Project, ABI Associazione Bancaria Italiana, OCSE, Consob for the working group devoted to incentives for stock exchange). Giulia Negri is Research Fellow of Accounting, Control, Corporate and Real Estate Finance Department at SDA Bocconi School of Management. Her field of interest concerns Financial Reporting, Performance Measurement and the whole world of Start-ups and Private Equity. She conducts research about private equity, start-ups and performance measurement systems. At the moment, she is supporting for the second consecutive year the activity "StartupDay" at Bocconi University that rewards the best Italian startups and that creates a marketplace among investors and startuppers.

In the past, she has worked with Assiteca (the largest Italian insurance broker), Assolombarda (the General Confederation of Lombardy), IBM and Prysmian and continuatively for over a year for the SDA Bocconi Audit Lab.