Board of Directors

Nitin Nohria is the George F. Baker Jr. and Distinguished Service University Professor at Harvard Business School. He previously served as the school’s tenth dean from 2010-2020. His intellectual interests center on leadership and corporate performance. He is the co-author of 16 books and over 100 articles and cases.

He serves as the Executive Chairman of Thrive Capital (a NYC venture capital firm) and sits on the Board of Directors of Anheuser-Busch InBev, Alsym, Bridgespan, Massachusetts General Brigham, and Rakuten Medical.

Before joining the Harvard Business School faculty, Nohria received his Ph.D. (1988) from the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a B. Tech. (1984) in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (which honored him as a Distinguished Alumnus in 2007).

John Elkann is Chief Executive Officer of Exor N.V., Chairman of Stellantis N.V. and Chairman of Ferrari N.V.

Born in New York in 1976, Mr. Elkann obtained a scientific baccalaureate from the Lycée Victor Duruy in Paris, and graduated in Engineering from Politecnico, the Engineering University of Turin. While at university, he gained work experience in various companies of the Fiat Group in the UK and Poland (manufacturing) as well as in France (sales and marketing). He started his professional career in 2001 at General Electric as a member of the Corporate Audit Staff, with assignments in Asia, the USA and Europe.

Mr. Elkann is also Chairman of the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation, a member of MoMA and of the JP Morgan International Council.

Melissa Bethell is a non-executive director of Diageo plc and Tesco plc.

Ms. Bethell is also a Senior Advisor at Atairos, an investment fund backed by Comcast NBCUniversal, and Chair of Ocean Outdoor, an Atairos investee company. She previously held non-executive director positions at Samsonite, Worldpay and Atento.

Ms. Bethell was previously a Managing Director at Bain Capital for over 18 years and member of the senior leadership team responsible for strategy setting, fundraising and portfolio management. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Ms. Bethell worked in the Capital Markets group at Goldman Sachs & Co., with a focus on media and technology.

Ms. Bethell has a MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and received a BA with honours in Political Science and Economics from Stanford University. Melissa was born in Taiwan, educated in America and is now a British national.

Marc Bolland was born in the Netherlands in 1959 and graduated with an MBA from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. In November 2011, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of York, in the UK.

He began his professional career at Heineken N.V. in 1987 as a management trainee. During his first 14 years he occupied several international management positions. He served as an Executive board member of Heineken N.V. from 2001 to 2006 and as Chief Operating Officer of Heineken N.V. from 2005 to July 2006.

In 2006 he was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of WM Morrison Supermarkets plc, where he led the turnaround after the acquisition of Safeway plc until April 2010.

In May 2010 he joined the board of Marks and Spencer plc as Chief Executive Officer until April 2016. He led the transformation of Marks and Spencer to become a Multi-channel, General Merchandise Retailer and developed the Food business with industry leading growth.

In September 2016 he joined the Blackstone Group International Partners LLP as Senior Operating Partner and from 1 January 2022 continued as Chairman Europe. From 1 January 2024 he became Senior Adviser.

He is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Coca-Cola company board, Atlanta USA. He is Deputy Chairman of the Royal Collection Trust and the Chairman of the Royal Collection Enterprises. He is Vice President at Unicef UK.

Mr. Tiberto Brandolini d'Adda graduated from the University of Parma in 1972 with a degree in commercial law and started his career within the international department of Fiat S.p.A. After working for Lazard Bank in London, he was appointed assistant to the Director General for Enterprise Policy at the European Economic Commission in Brussels.

In 1975, he became General Manager at Ifint (Agnelli Group) for Europe and subsequently Managing Director of Exor Group Worldwide (formerly Ifint), where he also served as Vice Chairman until 2007.

During this time, he was also on the Board of Directors of several companies, including Le Continent, Bolloré Investissement, Société Foncière Lyonnaise, Safic-Alcan, Château Margaux and SGS (Société Générale de Surveillance S.A.).

Mr. Brandolini d’Adda served as Chairman of ClubMed, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Worms & Cie and as Chairman and Executive Officer of Sequana Capital (formerly Worms & Cie) until 2009.

From 2009 to 2015, he held the position of Vice Chairman of Exor S.p.A., formed through the merger between IFI and IFIL Investments (Agnelli Group), while also serving as the Chairman of Exor S.A. (Luxembourg) from 2007 to 2017.

From 2003 to May 2023, he was a General Partner of Giovanni Agnelli & C. S.a.p.az. and then Board Member of Giovanni Agnelli B.V.

From 2004 to 2020, Mr. Brandolini d’Adda was a Member of the Board of Directors of Fiat S.p.A. and then Board Member of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. (FCA), now Stellantis.

Currently, he is also a Board Member of Yafa S.p.A, who controls the Vittoria Assicurazioni Group.

Mr. Brandolini d’Adda is Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.

Laurence Debroux was born in France in 1969. She holds a Master in Management from HEC Paris.

Mrs. Debroux is a member of the Board of Directors of Novo Nordisk A/S and of the Supervisory Board of Randstad N.V., she is also a Non-Executive Director at Kite Insights (The Climate School) and of HEC Paris.

Previously, Mrs. Debroux was CFO and member of the Executive Board of Heineken N.V. from April 2015 until April 2021. Before joining Heineken, she had been Chief Financial and Administrative Officer and a member of the Executive Board of JCDecaux since July 2010. Prior to this, Mrs. Debroux spent 14 years with the global healthcare company SANOFI where she held various executive positions including CFO and Chief Strategic Officer.

Mrs. Debroux began her career in investment banking. She has had Executive responsibility for Global functions such as Strategic Planning & Business Control, Tax & Financial Markets, Business Development, Financial Processes & Internal Control, Accounting & Reporting, Procurement and Information Systems.

Dr. Sandra Dembeck is CFO of Zalando SE, Europe’s leading online fashion and lifestyle brand based in Berlin. She started her career in 1999 at McKinsey & Company where she spent 6 years first in Europe and later relocated to Hong Kong. In 2005 she joined C&A to start up their retail business in China followed by various CFO roles for C&A in Europe.

She joined Kingfisher Plc in 2014, first as CFO B&Q China before relocating to the UK to become CFO B&Q UK & Ireland. In 2018 she was appointed Deputy Group CFO for Kingfisher Plc. In April 2020, at the start of the Covid pandemic, she joined the world’s largest caterer Compass Group Plc as Group Corporate Finance Director.

Sandra graduated in Business Administration from the University of Passau and holds a doctorate from the University of Konstanz.

Axel Dumas, great grandson of Émile Hermès, represents the sixth generation of the Hermès family. Holding a Master’s in Law and Bachelor of Philosophy, Axel Dumas attended Sciences-Po Paris and is a graduate of Harvard Business School (AMP).

After eight years at Paribas, based in Beijing and New York, he joined Hermès in 2003 as Auditor with the Financial Department of Hermès International and went on to become Retail Director for France.

In 2006 he was named Managing Director of Hermès Bijouterie and, in 2008, was appointed Managing Director Métier Hermès Leather and Saddlery.

From May 2011 to June 2013 he held the position of Chief Operating Officer.

Since June 2013 Axel Dumas has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Hermès International.

Ginevra Elkann was born in London in 1979 and she has lived in the UK, France and Brasil.

She graduated in Visual Communication at the American University of Paris and completed a Master in Film Making at the London Film School.
Ginevra Elkann is President of Asmara Films, a film production company founded in 2010.

Since 2011 she is the President of Pinacoteca Giovanni and Marella Agnelli. She sits on the Boards of Christie’s, Fondation Cartier and UCCA in Beijing, China. Mrs. Elkann also sits in the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome. Since April 2021 she is board member of Christian Louboutin SAS.

Alessandro Nasi was born in Turin (Italy) in 1974. He grew up in New York and then returned to Italy where he obtained a degree in Economics at the University of Turin.

He started his career as a financial analyst, gaining different experiences at several investment banks and private equity funds. In 2005 he joined Fiat Group as Corporate and Business Development manager, heading the Asia Pacific division and then was appointed Vice President of Business Development and member of the Steering Committee of Fiat Powertrain Technologies.

In 2008 he was appointed Senior Vice President of Business Development at CNH Industrial. Within the company and until 2019, he covered various increasing positions such as Senior Vice President Network Development and President Specialty Vehicles.

Mr. Nasi is member of the Board of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia and member of the Strategic Advisory Board of 3 Boomerang Capital.

He is a member of the Lego 4G Advisory Board and, since May 2024, Director of KIRKBI, the holding and investment company owner of the Lego Group.

He is Chairman of GVS SpA. He is a Director of CNH Industrial and Iveco Group and Chairman of the boards of Iveco Defence and Astra. He is Chairman of the board of Comau.