Valerio De Molli has been Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of The European House – Ambrosetti since 2000. In 2008, he led the management buyout of the company along with other partners, thereby settling with the founder. He is also Director of London’s Ambrosetti Group Limited, Chairman of The European House – Ambrosetti Middle East, Senior Advisor of the Venture Capital Fund United Ventures, and Mentor of the Kairos Society, an association of young American entrepreneurs. He has been a member of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) since 2011. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of numerous companies. He gives lectures and seminars on strategy and management for top executives, associations, and universities. He is the author of Towards Excellence. Boards of Directors: A Tool for an Effective System of Corporate Governance. Proposals and Recommendations, published by Sperling & Kupfer in May 2005, and The Fundamentals of Strategic Management – Paradigms of the Corporate System, published by IPSOA in January 2009. He founded and continues to chair important Think Tanks including Observatory on Europe in Brussels, Observatory on the Excellence of Corporate Governance in Italy, Meridiano Sanità, and Cashless Society, among others.