FIRSTonline is an independent web journal of economics, finance and stock exchange published by the publishing company “AL Initiatives Publishing Srl“, with registered office in Rome, in via Ovidio, 20. Founded and controlled by Ernesto Auci e Franco Locatelli, is owned by three minority shareholders: the heirs of Andrea Gilardoni, Alexander Pavesi e Laura Rovizzi. The site and its applications are created on a daily basis by two agile editorial offices – one in Milan and one in Rome – and by an innovative and effective team of innovation and web managers.
Ernesto Auci
Born in Rome on 9 February 1946, he became a professional journalist in 1970. After a brief initial experience at Il Globo, he moved to Milan to Il Sole 24 Ore where he remained until 1980, reaching the title of deputy director. After a move to the European Championship and to Il Mattino in Naples, in 1984 he became head of external relations for Confindustria with the Lucchini presidency. In 1992, at the end of the Pininfarina presidency, he moved to Fiat as communication manager. In 1997 he became director of Il Sole 24 Ore of which in 2001 he assumed the role of managing director. In 2003 he assumed the position of managing director of Itedi and de The print and in 2005 he moved to Fiat as head of institutional relations.
Franco Locatelli
Founding partner, administrator and managing director of FIRSTonline. Milanese by birth, he has always worked between Milan and Rome. He began planning an online journal of economic and financial information the day after its release, in the spring of 2010, by Il sole 24 ore, where he spent more than 25 years, was the head of the editorial board Finance and Markets and columnist and has commented on the most important economic and financial events since the mid-XNUMXs. For the publisher O lschki he wrote two stories of local banks of Tuscany, the first of which with the art historian Antonio Paolucci. In 2014 you published with Ugo Calzoni the essay "Empires without dynasties” published by the Massetti Rodella press company. The president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella awarded him the honor of Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Clare Gilardoni
Born in Milan in 1982, she obtained a Degree in International Economics and Management and a Master of Marketing at theBocconi University of Milan. Since 2006 you have held roles of increasing responsibility in product marketing for three major telephony players (H3G, Fastweb and Vodafone), dealing with offerings and pricing in both B2B and B2C. In 2018 she moved to Austin, Texas, where she continued the product marketing management path in an international arena and with a global focus, in Expedia first and then in LanguageLine Solutions, a group company Teleperformance. Already on the board of Agici Corporate Finance from 2010, in 2021 he takes over the leadership of the company.
Laura Rovizzi
Economist, expert in strategies for the development of innovative services and in the regulation of the electronic communications sectors. She worked in Olivetti, Omnitel, Enel e Wind, where she has long been responsible for the internet and multimedia activities and the portal Open admission. She was a member of the Superior Council of Communications. She is currently she is a partner of Open Gate Italy, a company specializing in institutional and regulatory consultancy for the ICT and Media sector.
Alexander Pavesi
Milanese, studied law, he was Head of the Group's Press Office Pirelli, from the Italian Credit,Olivetti, Director of Communications of Ina Assitalia and Head of External Relations of the Italian Stock Exchange until 2009. He was press officer and spokesperson for the Secretary of the Treasury Piero Barucci in the Amato and Ciampi governments from 1992 to 1994. From 2008 to 2013 he was President of the Communication Commission of theItalian motor racing. Rally co-driver still active, has been 5 times Italian Rally Champion (the first time in 1979) with over 30 victories in his palmares. In 2013 he joined the Board of Directors of Lifonti & Company where he held the position of Vice President. He currently works as a communication consultant for some Italian and foreign companies.
The FIRSTonline team
Lorenzo Gennari
Graduate Computer engineering, manages the web production of FIRSTonline. After a long experience like systemist e IT consultant as early as the end of the 90s, he began to take an interest in scientific communication and dissemination. He was content editor for the networks HTML e Blogo (Triboo SpA) to then cover the role of IT manager of the news agency"the Velino". Journalist journalist since 2011, specialized in the creation of guides, tutorials and insights in the specific ICT sector. Since April 2024 he has been included in thespecial album of the Union of Italian Scientific Journalists (UGIS). A former swimming athlete, he carried out activities at a national level in his youth. Currently Personal Trainer, instructor of kitesurfing, diving and freediving.
Michela Scacchioli
Born in the Marche region, originally from Abruzzo (proud to be), graduated with honors in Modern Literature in Bologna, where she then attended the Higher School of Journalism. Newspapers and news are her obsessions. A professional journalist since 2001, and a reporter at heart, she worked in the local newspapers of the former group Espresso (Pescara, L'Aquila and Reggio Emilia), to Sun 24 Hours in Milan (Finance) and Republic in Rome (website desk, Central Office, and Deputy Head of the Interior Department). She has chosen to stay in Rome (which she adores), is happily married, and is the mother of Agata Beatrice (whom she loves). Fairness is her watchword. Paper books, all things crime, skiing, piano, and dark chocolate are her passions, scattered (dis)ordered.
Vittoria Patane
Sicilian, professional journalist. Master's Degree in Publishing and Scripture at the University "La Sapienza" and a master's degree in Multimedia information and political-economic journalism at the "Business School of Sun 24 Hours“. He has been collaborating with various online newspapers for a few years, mainly dealing with politics and economics.
Valentina Nubola
Journalist, born in Rome in 1991. After obtaining themaster's degree in Economics at the Roma Tre University he spent a period in Australia where he worked as manager in the sector of Catering. In addition to being part of the newspaper's desk, he writes for the Food section and related topics . Northern Sardinia is his second home and padel is his favorite pastime.
Maria Teresa Scorzoni
Born in Bologna, he has a law degree and is a journalist. First editor of the agency Say, then collaborator of the Sun 24 Hours, then head of external relations of Nomisma. Today he collaborates with FIRSTonline and writes small guides for the publishing house Astraea. Play golf and burraco.
Gabriella Bruschi
Milanese, graduated, professional journalist since 1986. After collaborating with newspapers and magazines on various topics, she began her apprenticeship at the Financial Letter of theEspresso with Giuseppe Turani. In 1987 she switched to Milano Finanza participating in its birth and development. In 1991 it moved to Reuters Italy where she remained until 2014 as deputy head of service at the Treasury desk. Specific skills: international financing, sovereign and local public accounts, relations with the main institutions (ECB, Bank of Italy, Treasury), macroeconomics, international scenarios, real economy, companies, banks, insurance companies.
Matthew Lirosi
Romano (but from Lazio), he was born in 1987. Graduated in oriental languages and international relations, he began a career in the field of international security and cybersecurity. He collaborated for a period at Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the "NATO Defense College Foundation“, writes about technology, cybersecurity and current affairs. Traveling is his great passion, having grown up among maps and geography atlases. His hobbies also include football, hiking, TV series and good food. He deals with communication via social media.
Giuliano DeRisi
Former managing director of the Italian Journalistic Agency (AGI). In 2014 he was appointed Special Advisor in charge of International Relations and Communication in Italy of theADA, Académie Diplomatique Africaine – International Coalition for Development. From 2011 to 2013 he was Editorial Coordinator of OIL, periodical of energy culture of Eni Group. He writes about food and wine on various portals, has collaborated with the Gambero Rosso restaurant guide and is the author of food and wine documentaries for Raitre. Heal the Food section by FIRSTonline.
Marika Lion
He first worked in the sector of institutional communication and public affairs for art and culture. She is an expert in modern and contemporary art and the art market, after a significant experience in Bonaparte 48 (financial communication), move to the direction of Borgonuovo 12 (art services), at the head of both the Milanese gallery and the contemporary sculpture series editions Elect. Then enter Finarte Auction House to then become responsible for the communication of Benetton Foundation cultural initiatives, Villa Emo Foundation and finally Chief Executive Officer of artnetworth, a Milanese company providing services for art investments. Today he deals with Art Advisory in the financial and patrimonial area. Contract professor MASVIC Ca 'Foscari University of Venice. Independent curator of private collections and archives. He is responsible for Art section by FIRSTonline
Federico Rendina
He was born in Rome in 1954 and is professional journalist since 1982. He deals with technologies, economic policy, competition and liberalized markets. He has followed in particular the process of liberalization of telecommunications and energy. He worked at the newspaper The day, led the Rome editorial staff of the weekly Economic World and was special envoy of the Sun 24 Hours. He is the curator of the Tutorials section. He has an immoderate passion for do-it-yourself, motorcycles, orange soda, croissants, sailboats, the sport he practices (a good skier, he thinks he can get by at tennis but it's not true). He is one of the few Italians refractory to the game of football. Silvia married him. He lives between Rome and Milan.
Madeleine Tulanti
Neapolitan, she founded in 2000 and directed until 2015 the Corriere del Mezzogiorno Puglia, local spine of the Corriere della Sera. Russian graduate with honors from the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, an expert in international politics, she has lived in France and Russia. War correspondent for the Unit: in 1994 she was the first Italian journalist to be in Chechnya during the Russian invasion and the only one to have interviewed the rebel president Dudayev in the bunker of the presidential palace besieged by tanks in Moscow. Upon returning from Russia in 1998, she was appointed special envoy to follow the most striking events at home (the Sarno flood) and abroad (the Kosovo war). She is later appointed central managing editor of the paper. She will remain so until the closure of the newspaper on 2 July 2000. In October of the same year she is in Bari to open the spine of the Corriere della Sera.
Joseph Baselice
Born in Naples on 1 October 1980, he studied between Italy and France and then, starting from 2004, worked as a journalist between Milan and Rome. From 2011 to 2021 he was editor of FIRSTonline, with which he continues to collaborate from Sao Paulo, in Brazil, where he moved to live at the end of 2021. He currently also writes for other Italian newspapers and magazines, on the topics of political and economic current affairs in South America. She speaks French, Portuguese and English (in that order of level).
mario mancini
He has been dealing with the intersection of publishing and technology for more than thirty years with the company he co-founded, Thesis Contents. He participated in the project for the introduction of computers in Italy NeXT, designed by Steve Jobs after his exit from Apple. At the beginning of 2000 he contributed to the birth of the cinema portal MYmovies.it as a content developer. He has been involved in the project since 2009 goWare, a startup that experiences the new publishing at 360 degrees through ebooks, applications, and editions print-on-demand.
Silvano Bonini
Silvano Bonini "haunts" the Palazzo almost from the beginning of his professional career. Graduated in Political Sciences, parliamentary journalist, began to “Evening moment” as a reporter for “black” news, then moving on to “white” news and – after experiences in local news in Turin and “insiders” in “Paese sera” – he landed at the political-economic-speaking agency “Say” dealing with economics, following the Chamber, Senate and Palazzo Chigi with continuity and becoming editor-in-chief. He also worked in Rai, Gr3, collaborated with “Republic" and with numerous specialized publications.