Corporate Governance

Born in Milan on October 8, 1968, after his studies and an initial work experience of a few years in the world of communication and congress travel, from 1992 to 1999 he served as CEO and Client Director of an events, incentive travel and congress company. In 2000, together with two partners, he founded Sinergie in which he has always served as CEO and COO. Since the listing, he has been CEO of the Issuer.

In the 2018 BEA (Best Event Award) edition, he was awarded "Best Event Manager" with the Jury's mention "for his commitment to giving an industrial vision and approach to live communication and, in general, to integrated communication. A proponent of SG Company, the first Italian company in the world of integrated communication to have completed the full path of certification and listing on the stock exchange, he has been the architect of a virtuous evolutionary path, built during a story that began in 2000. A clear vision of the short, medium, and long term together with the ability to have systematized skills and the right people in key roles ensuring the Group's ability to update itself to market changes, make Davide Verdesca a well-rounded and in many ways unique manager in the communications landscape."

In 2020 he joins the Board of Directors of the AssoNEXT Association with responsibility for non-institutional communications.

A manager with about 30 years of professional experience, Francesco Merone has worked for both master SMEs and listed companies and in international consulting firms. He considers business organization and governance development for all levels in the enterprise to be fundamental.

His path is focused on the finance side although in recent years he has ventured into other business areas as well. Francis has managed numerous structural and system implementations, strengthening his know-how in bothInformation Technology and Human Resources through the management of several HR departments. Among his most significant experiences, certainly worth mentioning are those as Finance Manager in Dasit Group and Manager in PwC. Francesco has held the position of CFO both in master companies such as Polti S.p.A. and Consonni International Contract and in EGM listed companies such as Clabo S.p.A. and Casta Diva Group SpA (where he was also General Manager). He has also held positions on various Boards of Directors, generally with delegated powers in finance. Since May 2020 Francesco joined SG Group holding the role of Director and CFO of the Issuer of which he is also Investor Relator.

Born in Reggio Calabria on October 18, 1972, he graduated in Political Economy from Bocconi University in Milan. After various experiences in academia as a professor, he has held the position ofAssociate Professor at the Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management at Bocconi University of Milan since 2009. He was Visiting Professor, inter alia, at Paris School of Economics (Panthéon-Sorbonne) in February 2010 and Visiting Researcher at the European Central Bank from 2012 to 2015 and at London School of Economics from 2015 to 2016. He has held numerous positions at national institutions, such as the Ministry of Economic Development as Member of the Working Table for the reform of Italian industrial policy in 2014 and the Prime Minister's Office as Member of the Committee of Economic Policy Experts from 2015 to 2016, as well as at international institutions, such as, inter alia, United Nations (Geneva) as Consultant for the Division on International Investment and Enterprise of UNCTAD and European Central Bank (Frankfurt) as Scientific Advisor of the Competitiveness Research Network from 2012 to 2015. He has also supervised numerous national and international research projects and authored multiple scientific publications.