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Elena Di Giovanni

Vice Chairman and co-founder

Vice President and co-founder of Comin & Partners, one of Italy’s leading strategic consulting firms specializing in communications and public affairs. She contributes to defining the firm’s strategic direction and governance, participating in strategic decision-making processes and shaping its market positioning.

With over 20 years of experience in corporate communications, institutional relations, and media, she has built a career that combines consulting expertise with corporate, political, and cultural experience. She has forged a distinctive career path, having started at a consulting agency and subsequently moved on to structured corporate environments.

She began her professional career in Milan at Weber Shandwick, before joining Arnoldo Mondadori Editore as Head of the Press Office, where she managed the positioning of major Italian magazines and their editors in their relations with the media during a period of peak publishing circulation.

She served as Director of Communications and External Relations at La Biennale di Venezia, where she held a leadership role at age 30, with responsibility for significant budgets, complex teams, and multi-level institutional stakeholders. In this context, she contributed to the transformation of the organization into a foundation and its strategic international repositioning.

She gained significant international experience in Brazil and Germany, working to support the Italian Embassy in public diplomacy and institutional relations, playing an active role in promoting Italian-made products and building political and institutional relationships.

Upon her return, she headed External Relations at Almaviva, an Italian multinational information technology company, before moving to the External Relations department of Expo 2015.

In 2014, she co-founded Comin & Partners, contributing to the company’s establishment and development from its inception. She has managed complex crises and helped position companies, executives, and projects in the Italian market. In particular, she has led the growth of the communications division, with a focus on sustainability and culture, seeking to integrate cultural institutions with the private sector and positioning this as a strategic lever and institutional asset for the company.

She served for eight years as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Gallery of Modern Art, coordinates the “CSR & Stakeholder Management” course at LUISS Business School, and is active in the cultural and social spheres as Honorary President of LAD Onlus and a member of the board of Venetian Heritage.

Achievements

  • Co-founded and developed Comin & Partners, contributing to its growth from a startup to one of Italy’s leading strategic consulting firms, with a focus on business development, organizational structure, and client portfolio
  • Development, from the firm’s inception, of the culture sector as a strategic lever, integrating it with the private sector and positioning it as an institutional asset for businesses and organizations
  • Definition and implementation of high-impact public affairs strategies, including the introduction of the TASER in Italy through comprehensive institutional and regulatory efforts
  • Development and management of positioning and institutional relations projects for large companies and international players, supporting their entry and consolidation in the Italian market (including NTT Data, Linkem, Axon, and Engel & Völkers)
  • Conception and establishment of the Forum in Masseria with Bruno Vespa, now a leading platform for dialogue between institutions, politics, and business
  • International experience in Brazil and Germany in managing institutional relations and public diplomacy activities, playing an active role in promoting Made in Italy and building political and institutional relationships;
  • Managed the transformation of La Biennale di Venezia from a public body to a foundation and defined its strategic repositioning, working closely with national and European institutions;
  • Head of Communications and Institutional Relations at La Biennale di Venezia, overseeing multi-level stakeholders, complex teams, and significant budgets.
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