A graduate in Law from the University of Milan, Michaela Castelli began her professional career in 2004 working in leading Italian law firms dealing with corporate and financial market law; she then worked in the Capital Market division of Banca Commerciale Italiana in the London branch before consolidating her experience at Borsa Italiana S.p.A., where she dealt with the primary and secondary markets, and assisted listed issuers in extraordinary transactions, price sensitive disclosures, compliance and corporate governance. She is an expert in organisation, corporate compliance, internal controls and 231 regulations. Enrolled in the Milan Register of Lawyers, a consultant, member of Boards of Directors, Auditor in Boards of Statutory Auditors and member of Supervisory Boards of listed and unlisted companies, she currently holds the position of Chairman of Nexi SpA and, among others, the position of Board Member at Recordati SpA, Fiera Milano SpA, Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A, Fiber JVCO SpA. 

In 2017, she was appointed as a Board Member at SEA and has been Chairman of the Board since 2018.

A law graduate from the University of Milan with an MBA from SDA Bocconi in Milan, Franco D’Alfonso has held various positions of responsibility in the public and private sectors, including those of CEO of Canale 5 Music (entertainment) and the Bopa Group (tourism), as well as Councillor for Commerce of the Municipality of Milan and Budget of the Metropolitan City of Milan. In 1981 he began his career as a management consultant at Telos Management (today Deloitte Consulting) and in 1983 he joined Italtel Spa (telecommunications) as assistant to the General Manager and in 1984 the Fininvest group as assistant manager to the DG Rti (Television), where he held numerous positions as general manager of production and foreign sales, CEO of record companies, publishers and production in the entertainment sector. In May 2022 he was appointed as a Board Member of SEA spa.

Massimiliano Crespi is the Director of Human Resources, Health and Safety at Work at SEA Milan Airports, the company that manages the Milan airports of Linate and Malpensa, and the SEA Group companies. At SEA, he also held the position of Head of Group Industrial Relations. He graduated in Political Science from the University of Milan where he then worked with the Institute of Labour Law and Social Policy. He was also a lecturer in labour law at the LIUC University of Castellanza. He has held various managerial positions at Confindustria in the area of trade union relations. He is also currently a member of the Air Transport and Airport System Fund Committee for the employer side (ASSAEROPORTI) established at INPS. 

He has worked with several journals specialising in labour and trade union law and was co-author of the book “Il nuovo diritto al lavoro dei disabili” (The new right to work for the disabled), Cedam 2000.

A graduate in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan, she qualified as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor. 

After almost 10 years in the auditing world at one of the Big Four, in January 1998 she joined SEA Società Esercizi Aeroportuali SPA where she held the position of Administration Director. 

In January 2022, she was appointed as Internal Audit Director at SEA and is a member of the Ethics Committee, of the Supervisory Board pursuant to Legislative Decree 231/01 of the company and its subsidiaries and of SACBO (airport operator of Bergamo Airport). 

In the performance of Internal Audit activities, she reports hierarchically to the Board of Directors and interfaces with the various managerial and executive committees on Control, Risk and Sustainability issues. 

On behalf of the Board of Directors, she carries out audit activities on the adequacy and effective implementation of SEA’s Management System for Corruption Prevention, certified according to the UNI ISO 37001:2016 Standard. 

She is currently a member of the Board of Auditors and Supervisory Board of the Italian Association of Internal Auditors.