Board
Assembly
The Assembly is consitututed by Public Bodies (ordinary and aggregate), who appoint a technology trasnfer delegate or legal representative that will partake in person at the assembly meetings.
President
The President and Vice President of Netval are appointed by the Assembly from amongst the members of the Board of Directors for a period of three years, a maximum of two terms can be served by the same person.
For the three-year period 2023-2025, Eng. Giuseppe Conti (IUSS of Pavia) was reaffirm as President and Prof.ssa Maria Chiara Di Guardo (Università di Cagliari) was nominated as Vice President.
Mail: presidenza@netval.it
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors (three-year period 2023-2025) is made up of nine members, including the President and the Vice-President, nominated by the Assembly from among the persons nominated by the ordinary members of Netval; it is chaired by the President and remains in office for a period of three years.
None of the members elected to the governing bodies receives compensation or attendance fees.
Treasury
Dr. Gesualda La Porta is the treasurer for the three-year period 2023-2025.

Università degli Studi di Cagliari
President

IUSS di Pavia
Vice President

Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

Università degli Studi di Padova

Università degli Studi di Firenze

Toscana Life Sciences

Università degli Studi di Brescia

Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna
Staff
email: segreteria@netval.it
pec: netval@pec.it
Daniela Traiani
Netval Secretary General, who, as part of the Association's activities, is in charge of liasing with the President, the Board of Directors and the Assembly of Members, for the organization and coordination of training activities and discussion groups, project monitoring. She also manages the administrative and financial activities. Graduated in International Economics and Finance in 2011 at the Università di Milano, she joined the Netval staff in the same year; in 2013 she obtained her Masters in Open Innovation and Knowledge Transfer at the MIP - Politecnico di Milano.
Claudia Daniele
Claudia Daniele has worked in the Netval secretariat since 2016. Graduated in Sociology at the Università di Pisa, she is in charge of analysing the Italian and European universities technology transfer landscape and of producing the statistical data for the annual Netval survey, since 2011. Since 2016 she has been involved in the implementation of Netval communication activities (newsletter, internal communications, website content and development and social network) and helps organizing the training activities and working groups.

General Secretary

General Secretary Staff
Staff
email: amministrazione@netval.it
Alessandra Pastori
Alessandra Pastori joined the Netval secretariat in 2020. Graduated in Economics and Commerce from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, she is in charge of managing the administrative and accounting activities of Netval.

Administration
Staff
email: info@knowledge-share.eu
email: staff@knowledge-share.eu
Visita Knowledge ShareFederico Novembrini
In 2018 Federico Novembrini, a graduate in Management Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, joins the Netval team; he is currently project manager of the Knowledge-Share project.
Anna Giulia Sanarico
She holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of Rome Tor Vergata and a Masters in Healthcare Management from SDA Bocconi. She gained experience in consulting, at Deloitte, for the Healthcare & Innovation sector, and later in the VC world, at CDP Venture Capital. Anna joins the team in December 2022 to support the development of the Knowledge Share platform.
Emanuele Guarino
Nato a Napoli, si trasferisce a Bologna per i propri studi, laureandosi in Comunicazione Pubblica ed Impresa e successivamente a Milano per lavoro. Attualmente vive e lavora a Pavia e nel 2025 entra a far parte del Team Netval occupandosi del marketing e della comunicazione sia istituzionale che progettuale.
Desiree Di Marco
Laureata in Relazioni Internazionali, ha maturato un percorso accademico e professionale di respiro internazionale, con esperienze tra Roma, Milano, Rabat, Vienna e Parigi. Ha conseguito due master e collaborato con organizzazioni di rilievo quali le Nazioni Unite, l'OSCE e diverse rappresentanze diplomatiche. Parallelamente all'attività professionale, scrive articoli di approfondimento politico e coltiva un interesse costante per l'arte e la scrittura.

Project Manager

Business Developer

Communication Specialist

Communication Specialist