Approaching to Taormina's event --- People

Save the date! It's July 18th, 2008 in Taormina. Since the last three months, the "organizational machine" is working hardly to prepare accurately the event that will be held on next week at the San Domenico Hotel, with no doubt one of the most beautiful location in the entire world. People - organizers and attendees - are surely the most valuable resources for Taormina's event. Let's start with the Co-Organizers. After a very accurate job of networking, Professors Arturo Capasso, Giovanni Battista Dagnino, Rosario Faraci and Mario Sorrentino have contacted all the Panelists and the Session Chairs attending the workshop in Taormina. All of them have just confirmed their participation in Taormina, including Mr. Ronald Spogli, the US Ambassador to Italy who will be accompanied by Mr. J. Patrick Truhn, Consul General of the United States of America in Naples. The Management Office (Liliana Daidone Piccirillo from Studio Exedra in Catania and Daniela Dagnino from Multioffice R7 Servizi in Milan) and the Staff of the Hotel San Domenico (led by the Vice Director Enrico Licari in Taormina) are working all together to facilitate the attendance of panelists, chairs and guests to the workshop and related events in Taormina. On behalf of the Co-Organizers, Giorgia D'Allura, an Assistant Professor at the University of Catania, is providing day-by-day a valuable link between the Department "Impresa, Culture and Società" (Anna Maria Di Giacomo, Teresa Cataldo and Francesca Guido) and the Management Office with the Staff at the Hotel San Domenico. "Private Equity & Entrepreneurship" is not only a social event and a professional workshop connecting for the first time in the Southern Italy the side of corporate finance and that of private firms firms, but it's going to become also a scientific and cultural meeting that will be attended by academics, entrepreneurs, corporate managers, consultants, government officers, and a broad spectrum of private equitors, business angels, venture capitalists and banking and financial managers. The event has received support and appreciatiation from several leading companies and not-for-profit organizations. Among the others, it has been promoted by three Universities Departments (Catania, Second University of Naples and Sannio) and it will be held under the auspices of AIDEA, the Italian Academy of Management (Professor Daniele Previati will attend as a Delegate of the President Professor Roberto Cafferata) and AIFI, the Italian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (Anna Gervasoni, the Managing Director will be present). In addition, the workshop is receiving a remarkable attention from the press -- La Sicilia, Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano Finanza and Il Denaro, the latter as Media Partner of the event.