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Board of Directors

Viviana Grandi

President

Viviana was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) of Italian parents and family, she has dual citizenship and her parents decided to return to Italy with their children. In Milan she studied International Secretarial and Interpreting. She speaks 4 languages fluently. Italian, Spanish, English and French. After living 12 years in Spain, she moved with her husband and 3 children to Brussels (Belgium) where she worked in the European Institutions. She later left her job at the European Parliament to devote herself to art. She opened an art gallery in Brussels. From 2009 to 2022 he was a volunteer member of the Family Foundation. Since 2022 he is president of the Foundation.

Fabio Rezzonico

Vice-President

Fabio Rezzonico graduated in business administration from the University of Neuchâtel. After gaining experience abroad, he first headed the Regional Employment Office in Lugano, then the Logistics and Tax Buildings Section of the Canton of Ticino. In 2000, he took over as general manager of Cardiocentro Ticino, which he managed for 17 years. In September 2017, he became general manager of Swiss Medical Network Regione Ticino and, on 1 January 2025, he took over as head of real estate and construction projects for the Ticino region, also for the SMN Group. Since 1 January 2026, he has been an independent freelancer in the field of business consulting. As part of his experience at Cardiocentro Ticino, he was a founding member of the Fondazione Bambini Cardiopatici nel Mondo (Foundation for Children with Heart Disease in the World), where for several years he was particularly involved in the creation of healthcare facilities and organisations in Africa and coordinated the transfer of children with heart disease from Guinea Bissau to Ticino for treatment.

As part of the Renato e Armando Grandi Foundation, which he joined in May 2019 as a member of the Board and where he has held the position of Vice-President since January 2024, he is particularly involved in the development of the Armando e Renato Grandi Medical Centre in Guinea Bissau, the only facility in the country dedicated to the care of children.

Giovanni Pedrazzini

Prof. Dr. Physician

Giovanni B. Pedrazzini is Chief of the Cardiology Service at the Cardiocentro Institute, where he directed the interventional cardiology service from 1999 to 2017. In 2017 he was called to join the first group of 5 full professors of the newly formed Faculty of Biomedical Sciences of the University of Italian Switzerland, of which he is Dean as of January 1, 2021. After studying medicine in Lausanne (graduating in 1985), he qualified as a medical intern (1991) and then, in 1996, as a cardiologist, specializing in interventional cardiology. He is a member of several scientific bodies and sits on the Steering Committee of the Swiss Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry (AMIS plus). For several years he coordinated a humanitarian project in Guinea Bissau that allowed the treatment of more than 25 young patients with severe rheumatic valve disease by surgical valve replacement or percutaneous dilatation at the Cardiocentro Ticino. He is also responsible for a project to fund a center for disabled and abused girls on the outskirts of Calcutta. In his work and in his various activities he is a strong advocate of teamwork, convinced that the ability to work as a team, from the management of complex patients to the construction of a faculty, from scientific activity to the management of a service, makes it possible to achieve results that would otherwise be unimaginable and represents an indispensable added value today. Among his many hobbies is writing, with three books published in Ticino.

Davide Mottis

Lawyer

Davide Mottis graduated from the University of Zurich in 1994 and was admitted to practice law and notarial practice in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Partner of BMA Brunoni Mottis & Associati, Lugano, he works mainly in commercial, corporate and inheritance law.
For more than 10 years he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Foundation, he was also president of the association, based in Ticino (Switzerland) Amici di Dominique Lapierre, a charitable organization that aims to financially support a project founded and developed by Dominique Lapierre aimed at hosting and supporting a center for disabled/abused children on the outskirts of Calcutta.
Davide Mottis has also been actively involved in various initiatives and organizations in the sports field, with the aim of promoting sport as a privileged way and method for the support and socialization of young people.

Leandro Sugamelli

Governance and strategy

A lawyer by training and a “creator” by nature, Leandro has spent more than 15 years leading leading international organizations, working at the crossroads between the non-profit sector, institutions and the business world. Throughout his career, he has held senior management positions – including UNHCR’s Executive Delegate for Switzerland and Head of the Legal Unit of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International – and has distinguished himself for his ability to transform complex situations into opportunities for growth. He has led high-stakes negotiations in crisis contexts and has established strategic alliances vital to the stability and impact of the organizations he has represented. Leandro brings a rare combination of strategic vision and institutional rigor. Her contribution focuses on governance, legal soundness and building a network of trust, ensuring that the foundation’s strategies are based on solid, ethical and sustainable foundations. Leandro’s leadership is deeply rooted in real experience on the ground: having lived and worked in more than 35 countries has allowed him to develop an extraordinary intercultural sensitivity and a vision of the world without borders. This international background translates into an empathetic and resilient approach, guided by the conviction that the success of each project depends on the ability to place ethics and people at the center of each decision. Since 2026 he has been part of the foundation’s management as a volunteer partner

Giuseppe Biella

Development Cooperation

With a background in accounting and administration, he worked for 15 years at Banco Popolare di Milano in different periods between 1961 and 1999. Between 1971 and 1979 he worked as a volunteer aid worker in Chad, as part of a rural development project promoted by the ACRA association of Milan. Upon his return to Italy, in the same association, he became responsible for projects abroad, initiating projects in Senegal, Bolivia, Tanzania and again in Chad. During the 1990s he was president of ACRA for a period of 6 years. Since 2000, he has been a volunteer with ACRA, participating in projects in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea-Bissau. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Board of the Renato and Armando Grandi Foundation of Lugano.

Rocco Cappa

Treasurer

Since 2009, he has been a volunteer member of the board of directors of the Renato and Armando Grandi Foundation.

Team

Alba Pérez Grandi

Director of Operations and Communications

Alba Pérez Grandi is a Spanish-Italian communications and public affairs professional with a Master’s degree in International Business, Economics and Management from the Hogeschool-University of Brussels and a degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Madrid. With 12 years of experience in European institutions, international organizations, associations and agencies, he worked for four years at the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, leading strategic communication and institutional partnerships. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the International Association of Business Communicators (EMENA Region). Passionate about personal development, Alba founded the coaching platform Sail With Alba, through which she supports people in professional transition and personal growth. As of January 1, 2025, she is the Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer, with the objective of giving continuity and new impetus to FRAG’s projects.

Silvia Scalisi

Office Manager

Commercial employee, she worked for 10 years in an engineering firm, and for 2 years she was personal secretary to the owner of a major sanitary and heating installation company. Subsequently, he took over the management of an artisan artistic foundry, which he ran successfully for 19 years, performing all related tasks and achieving great personal satisfaction from both the owners and the clientele and employees. Since 2012, she has held the position of 20% administrative accountant at a company in Chiasso and 40% secretary/organizational director at the Renato and Armando Grandi Foundation in Lugano. Her excellent organizational skills, her great sense of initiative, her availability and her communication skills have led her to become actively involved in volunteering with groups of blind and visually impaired people, with whom she shares her free time and interests: downhill skiing, sailing, swimming, scuba diving, hiking, mountain biking and motorcycling since 2000.

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