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Viviana Grandi

President

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

Alba Pérez Grandi

Director of Operations and Communication

Alba Pérez Grandi is a Spanish-Italian communication and public affairs professional, with a master’s degree in International Business, Economics and Management from the Hogeschool-University of Brussels and a bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Public Relations from the Francisco de Vitoria University in Madrid. With 12 years of experience in European institutions, international organizations, associations and agencies, she worked for four years at the EU Agency for Cybersecurity, leading strategic communication and institutional alliances. 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. Since January 1, 2025, she has been the Operational Director of the Foundation, with the aim of giving continuity and a new impetus to FRG projects.

Silvia Scalisi

Office Manager

A commercial employee, she worked for 10 years in an engineering studio, 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 artisanal art foundry, which he successfully led 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 in 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 be actively involved in volunteering with groups of blind and visually impaired people, with whom she shares her free time and interests: alpine skiing, sailing, swimming, diving, hiking, MTB and motorcycling since 2000.

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.

Alberto Allevi

Financier

He has 36 years of experience in the financial markets, including asset management, brokerage and stock market trading. His professional career began at Banca Gutzwiller Kurz Bungener SA in Geneva, where he worked as a stock and options trader. In 1988 he joined UBS Lugano as an asset manager for VIP clients and a senior private banking officer. During his time at UBS, Alberto expanded his skills by attending various professional courses in Switzerland and abroad. In 1997 he left UBS and joined ABN AMRO as a member of the management team responsible for the administration of VIP discretionary portfolios. In the spring of 2000, Alberto took a decisive step and founded his own asset management company, Atlantinvest SA, of which he is currently President and CEO. Since 2009, he has been part of the management of the foundation as a volunteer member.

Davide Mottis

Lawyer

Davide Mottis graduated from the University of Zurich in 1994 and was admitted to practice law and notary in 1996 and 1997 respectively. Partner at 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 charity 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 Kolkata.
Davide Mottis has also been actively involved in various initiatives and organizations in the field of sport, with the aim of promoting sport as a privileged way and method for the support and socialization of young people.

Giovanni Pedrazzini

Prof. Medical Dr.

Giovanni B. Pedrazzini is Head 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 be part of 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 (diploma in 1985), he obtained the title of internal physician (1991) and later, in 1996, that of cardiology, specializing in interventional cardiology. He is a member of several scientific bodies and is a member of 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 more than 25 young patients with severe rheumatic valve disease to be treated by surgical valve replacement or percutaneous dilation at the Ticino Cardiocenter. She is also responsible for a project to fund a centre for disabled and abused girls on the outskirts of Kolkata. In his work and in his various activities, he is a firm advocate of teamwork, convinced that the ability to work in a team, from the management of complex patients to the construction of a faculty, from scientific activity to the management of a service, allows us to achieve results that would otherwise be unimaginable and today represents an indispensable added value. Among his many hobbies is writing, with three books published in Ticino.

Rocco Cappa

Treasurer

Since 2009 he has been part of the management of the Renato and Armando Grandi Foundation as a volunteer member.

Giuseppe Biella

Development Cooperation

An accountant and administrative background, he worked for 15 years at the Banco Popular in Milan 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 in Milan. On his return to Italy, in the same association he took over the position of responsible for projects abroad, initiating projects in Senegal, Bolivia, Tanzania and again in Chad. During the 90s he was president of ACRA for a period of 6 years. Since 2000 she has collaborated on a voluntary basis with ACRA, participating in the implementation of projects in Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Guinea-Bissau. Since 2009 he has been a member of the Board of the Renato and Armando Grandi Foundation in Lugano.

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