The Board leads our vision for future growth

Stefano is a serial entrepreneur and investor who chairs our Board of Directors. An accomplished physicist, he previously founded and served as CEO of Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) – an international radiopharmaceutical company acquired by Novartis for $3.9 billion in 2018.

Giovanni is dedicated to realising his vision to transform affordable housing across the world with the integration of smart solutions and social innovation programmes. He has over 25 years of experience in international real estate and co-founded Planet Smart City in 2015.

Susanna leads our activities in Brazil and is the driving force and thought leader of smart affordable housing in the country. She has over 20 years of experience in international real estate and is responsible for the company’s expansion in Brazil over the next years.

An experienced real estate professional with 25 years of global experience. Audrey ran her own company for five years and started the European business for Park Hill Real Estate, a division of Blackstone, where she spent nine years building the business. Audrey has an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Business and a BA in economics from EMORY University. She has held subsequent Head of Fundraising roles and currently sits on the boards of two real estate companies, one with a strong focus on Proptech (Planet Smart City). Audrey is also an ESG Chair for both. She runs Women In Real Estate (WIRE), an organisation comprised of 400 professional women in real estate in London and has also sat on the Corporate Board of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, UK for the past 11 years.

Kathryn is the Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of Planet Smart City, a Non-executive Director of Al Rayan Bank, and the Chair of the Risk, Audit and Evaluation Committee of the Microbiology Society. She is also Advisor, Board of Directors, Urgentum. Kathryn has more than 35 years’ experience in the financial sector, most recently at RBS, where she led a team responsible for reviewing customer complaints in relation to a strategic remediation project. Previously, she was Head of Enterprise Risk Reporting for the bank. She joined RBS from Moody’s Investors Service, where she held a number of analytical and managerial roles in the UK, the US and Singapore. Earlier in her career, she founded and managed The Paradigm Alliance, a consulting firm based in Sydney, Australia. She began her career in finance at The Chase Manhattan Bank. Kathryn served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fez, Morocco. Kathryn holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and an MA from Georgetown University, both of the US.

Filippo is Managing Director of Reed Midem’s Real Estate Division, where he is a member of the Executive Committee. He heads the leading professional shows for the global real estate, smart cities and proptech communities: MIPIM, MAPIC and Propel. Filippo has an MBA in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Mikael has served on several Boards and as a CEO with a strategic focus on creating new markets through disruption, collaborative business relationships, and industry thought leadership. Mikael promotes digital transformation through the convergence of AI, Big Data, the elastic cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT). He has held strategic leadership positions at SAS and McKinsey.