The Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK

Daniele started his career as Sales & Marketing Assistant, and then became Head Reception and Room Division Manager at a privately owned hotel acquired by InterContinental Hotels Group. Between 1972 and 1982, he gained various working experiences in England and Germany, both in luxury hotels and restaurants. From 1990, Daniele covered the position of Resident Manager at Holiday Inn Milan Assago, acting as General Manager in the subsequent seven years. Since 2005, Daniele dedicates part of his time as visiting professor in several hospitality management fields.

The experience in luxury and customer service goes back more than 25 years. Starting in Düsseldorf with a traineeship at the Hilton Hotel and several Relais & Chateaux Hotels, including Fine Dining Restaurants with up to 3* Michelin. As of 2002 my travel took me to France where I continued working in small Boutique Hotels with famous Restaurants on the Cote d’Azur and in the French Alps in Courchevel. In 2004 my longest adventure started with the opening of the Four Seasons Resort Terre Blanche and I moved in 2010 to the Four Seasons Gresham Palace in Budapest, covering F&B Director position.

Educated at English private schools and college, Jeremy studied Greek, Latin and French; then learned German, Italian and Spanish in their respective countries. Trained in marketing and advertising by Ogilvy agency, Jeremy is a Faculty Member of SEED (School for Executive Education & Development), holding lectures of Business Communication and Negotiation. He specializes in various writing styles such as interviews, financial, legal, straight short EU business English. In the last 25 years, Jeremy covered top management positions in San Francisco, Rome, Frankfurt am Main, London and Tokyo.

Judit is passionate about creating better workplaces. Judit is a consultant at Aon's talent solutions leading the employee engagement practice in Hungary. Prior to that Judit held multiple positions in corporate HR primarily in the energy and IT sectors. Over the past 7 years Judit gained experience in HR strategy development, organizational development projects, HR controlling and organizational design. Judit holds a degree in Economics from the CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education with a major in International Management.

Kitti is a clear passion to develop people. She is currently working as Capability Development Thematic Lead where she is responsible for development and implementation of the Group level Capability Strategy. Prior to that Kitti held multiple positions in corporate HR gaining experience in recruitment & selection, performance management and leadership development. Kitti holds three degrees, a Bachelor in Business Excellence from the University of South Wales, UK, a Master’s degree in Corporate Communications and another MA in Organizational Sociology from Corvinus University of Budapest.

Michele, a social entrepreneur with eclectic military-humanities-business-capitalist-socialist and ethnic-minority based education, sold his company YOPPI to Coca-Cola International and decided to redistribute his lucky stake in the form of education. He is the president of EuCham - European Chamber, the institution representing international businesses and their ethical side. Other posts and involvements include the World Economic Forum, NESsT Europe, the European Business Awards, the Climate Reality Project, JEUNE - Young Entrepreneurs Organization of European Union and other institutions.

Mirco graduated from Bocconi University (Milan) in Economics and Management and also holds a MSc in International Corporate Legislation. His main areas of specialization are enterprise evaluation, international accounting standards, planning & controlling. After his studies, Mirco started his career as commercial activities coordinator for PVS Company, reaching top management positions by becoming CEO in few years. Besides this, as entrepreneur, Mirco is member of Confindustria Association and in parallel is also a chartered accountant specialized in insolvency procedures.

Stefano started his career at ENI S.p.A. in Milan and then moved to London to coordinate cross-country projects for the Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK. Later, he continued his career in the financial sector working for Deutsche Bank S.p.A.. Stefano is based in Budapest, where he works for the leading CEE Oil & Gas company MOL Group as Project Leader in the staff of the Executive Vice President of Downstream division. Stefano enrolled to a Double Degree program in Business Administration and holds two Masters Degrees in International and Corporate Management.

Zsolt is Director of Development and Quality at Continental Group. Zsolt has a solid understanding of quality guest service since he has gained more than 16 years of diverse hospitality operations, hotel pre-opening, development and training working experience from Hungary, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Thailand and China from some leading hotels of the world. Zsolt obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Hospitality Tourism Management from University of Massachusetts (USA) and Master of Business Administration in Hospitality Management from Tourism Management Institute, Switzerland.