Board of Directors

Alessandro Rivera is currently senior advisor for Bain Capital and for BCG, chairman of doValue and MilanoSesto, member of the board of the Italian Institute of Technology.

From 2018 to 2023, he was Director General of the Department of the Treasury. In this capacity, he represented Italy in working groups and committees established by leading international financial organizations.

In particular, he was the Deputy of the Minister of Economy and Finance in the G7, G20, and IMF meetings; member and Vice President of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) and member of the Euro Working Group of the European Union; member of the Board of Directors of the European Stability Mechanism. He chaired the Sub-Committee of the EFC on IMF-related matters.

From 2008 to 2018, he was Director of the Treasury's Directorate for the Banking and Financial System, dealing with policy and regulation of the financial sector at domestic and international level.

From 2000 to 2008, he was Head of different Units within the Treasury's Directorate for the Banking and Financial System.

He was a member of several boards of directors.

Manuela Franchi has more than 20 years’ experience in financial services leading different areas in diverse institutions covering positions with holistic perspective of the business.

Manuela spent 16 years in Investment banking companies such as Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Her main responsibilities were the origination and execution of international buy-side / sell-side M&A, IPOs, equity and debt raisings with significant impact on Telecoms, Media and Infrastructure industries

In 2016 Manuela joined doBank being responsible of the M&A related to the acquisition of competitors, business development in relation to new servicing agreements achieved in Italy and abroad (including the creation of doValue Hellas) and Finance, structuring all financing of doValue M&A transactions and leading successfully the completion of the IPO process. Moreover she has guided the dialogue with doValue investors both in equity and debt since inception.

Later, Manuela headed the acquisition of FPS operating in Greece from Eurobank and Altamira operating in Spain, Portugal and Cyprus and of the start-ups BidX1 and Quero Quitar.

From 2020 onwards she is the General Manager in doValue, in charge of all corporate functions of the Group and its subsidiaries including CFO, IR, M&A, People, Transformation, Organization, ERM and COO (IT, Operations, DWH, Purchasing) with the objective to achieve synergies and higher level of integration across countries (Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus).

From April 29 to August 2, 2023, she has been appointed as Acting Group CEO, role confirmed on August, 3 with unanimous decision of the Board of Directors as Group CEO.

Ms. Lieskovska is a Partner in Bain Capital Special Situations in London focused on Financial Services.

Previously, Ms. Lieskovska was a Partner at Varde Partners focussing on investments in European financial services and insurance opportunities.

Ms. Lieskovska previously worked at Lehman Brothers, Alvarez & Marsal and Goldman Sachs.

Ms. Lieskovska received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and B.Sc. from Louisiana State University.

Constantine (Dean) Dakolias is a Managing Partner of the Fortress Credit Funds Business.

Mr. Dakolias also serves on Fortress's Management and Operating Committees.

Prior to joining Fortress in 2001, Mr. Dakolias was a Managing Director, Chief Credit Officer and co-founder of American Commercial Capital LLC (a specialty finance company) and Coronado Advisors (an SEC registered broker dealer), both of which were sold to Wells Fargo in 2001.

Mr. Dakolias was previously a director at RER Financial Group where he was responsible for the firm's acquisition efforts as a principal and as a provider of third party due diligence and asset management. Mr. Dakolias serves on the Board of Trustees for Columbia University, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, the Millbrook School and Endeavor Greece.

Mr. Dakolias is also a co-founder of The Hellenic Initiative, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Dakolias received a B.S. in Physics from Columbia University.

Francesco Colasanti, born in Frosinone on 29/12/1975, graduated in Economics from the LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome.

Since 2001 he has worked at Fortress Investment Group where he covers the role of Managing Director and Co-Head of the Fortress European NPL Business.

From 2023, following his appointment as Co-head of Fortress Credit Europe, Mr Colasanti is focused on developing the footprint of Fortress in Spain, Greece, Portugal and other European countries. He has participated in the main investment processes of the Fortress Group in the NPL sector and Private Equity in Europe. Among the most important transactions, in 2015 he has participated to the acquisition of UCCMB (UniCredit Credit Management Bank listed in Milan in 2017 (now doValue).

In 2005 he has participated to the acquisition of IGC (Intesa Gestione Crediti Servicer of Gruppo Intesa) and of a financial asset portfolio having GBV equal to 13 billion euros by Intesa SanPaolo; from 2001 to 2022 he has managed the acquisitions in Italy of n. 37 NPL portfolios for approximately 42 billion euros of GBV. In the Greek market since 2019 he has participated to the acquisition of relevant financial assets assigned by Alpha Bank and National Bank of Greece for a nominal value of 11.3 billion.

Since 2015 he has been a Board Director of doValue S.p.A. (formerly doBank S.p.A.), where he also covered the role of member of the Appontment and Remuneration Committee. From 2000 to 2001 he worked in PricewaterhouseCoopers, within the audit and transaction support team.

James Corcoran has over 40 years of global financial services experience with large multi-national companies, such as American Express, Citibank, HBOS and IBM. He leveraged this experience in the later 10 years of his career by working alongside Private Equity to build a start-up consumer credit business in the UK, as the Chief Executive Officer of NewDay Cards Ltd. He stepped down in 2019, after successfully selling the “Unicorn” business and spends his time as a Non-Executive Director. 

James’ career began in 1977 with American Express in the UK in sales and marketing, and ultimately, after running their Card and TC business in Australia and New Zealand, moved to New York as their International Head of Consumer Marketing.  He then changed industries and became the Global Head of Marketing for the IBM PC Division. He was then recruited by Citibank to be their MD of Global Distribution Strategy for the Consumer Division.  In 1999 he came back to the UK to launch a credit card for FirstUSA/Bank One, which he sold to Halifax Bank (latterly becoming HBOS). After the transition to HBOS, he ran both their Retail product divisions and branch network. James was then recruited to Washington Mutual, in Seattle, as the President of their Retail Bank.  He led its network of more than 2,100 banking branches and more than 30,000 employees.

In 2009 James joined NewDay (a fledgling credit card business) developing a vision and strategy for the company to become the UK’s leading digitally enabled consumer finance provider. NewDay was sold to private equity firms Cinven and CVC for over £1billion in January of 2017. In September 2019 James stepped down as the CEO of the company (while remaining on the Board) and sits on the board of Mercury Financial, a privately held Credit Card company in the United States.

Since stepping down James and his wife Victoria have set up their own Charitable foundation, with an aim to primarily supporting conservation, and the education of disadvantaged children. He is also a Trustee of Tinnitus UK.

James is married and has three children and two granddaughters and continually struggles with his golf game.

Fotini Ioannou is the Chief of Staff of MYTILINEOS Energy & Metals, one of Greece’s leading industrial and energy companies with more than 5,000 direct and indirect employees.

Prior to this role, Fotini had an extensive career in Banking. Her most recent role was as General Manager of Legacy Portfolio & Specialized Asset Solutions and member of the Executive Committee of National Bank of Greece and Chair of the NPL Committee of the Hellenic Bank Association. Prior to that, Fotini was leading Corporate & Investment Banking as General Manager and member of the Executive Committee of Piraeus Bank. She has served as Chair of Piraeus Factoring, Vice-Chair of Piraeus Leasing, and member of the BoD NBG Cyprus. Before embarking on a career in banking, Fotini had worked at McKinsey & Company in Greece and in the US and started her career in the Assurance & Business Advisory Division at Arthur Andersen in London.

She holds an MA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Management Science & Operational Research from the University of Warwick. Ms. Ioannou is a chartered accountant and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

Degree in Economics of Financial Intermediaries from Luigi Bocconi University in Milan. Extensive experience in the financial sector, gained at leading international investments banks in London, such as Schroders and Deutsche Bank. Professional experience then continued at SACE in Rome where she took on various leading roles.

Since 2018 Director for International Relations in Confindustria and currently General Director in ItaliaFintech, the association of fintech companies in Italy.

Over the years she has gained extensive experience in Corporate Governance having held positions as Independent Director in listed financial and tech companies. Currently holding a position as non-executive director in Moltiply, Albaleasing and Chairman of Banco BPM Invest SGR. Vice President of the Bassiri Foundation.

Cristina has worked in financial services for over 30 years, where she has served as company executive and Board member. Most of her work has been in the EMEA and North American markets, with exposure to SE Asia/ANZ. During four years as OakNorth's CFO, she led OakNorth's financial organisation as it grew both in the UK market and globally, achieving triple Unicorn valuations in several rounds of equity raise, to support outstanding growth. It became the first profitable Unicorn in the UK. During 18 years at GE Capital, she held positions in credit and finance in Spain, and then moved to global roles based out of London and Paris. In the last two years, when GE decided to fully divest GE Capital, she was the director leading GE Capital's in-house M&A Finance Readiness team to execute divestitures of ~$100 billion financial services assets (33 transactions) over 24 months. Cristina is a Non-Executive Director on the Board of Directors of Atitlan, after having acted as Interim CEO in 2022, where she defined and implemented the transformation of the firm from bespoke to systematic management and board Member in METRO BANK PLC. Cristina is also a visiting lecturer in BSM - Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. She holds a double degree in Business and Economics from UAB and a Masters in Finance and Banking from UPF (Barcelona).

Isabella De Michelis di Slonghello is the Chairman, CEO, and founder of ErnieApp Ltd., a pioneering company known for inventing the Privacy Knowledge Manager—a groundbreaking digital service available via mobile app. This innovative tool establishes a new transparency framework, enabling both consumers and enterprises to negotiate expanded digital value creation in real time. The app, categorized as a utility, is currently operational in over 50 markets.

Before venturing into software entrepreneurship, Isabella held key leadership positions, including Vice President of EMEIA Government Affairs and Global Technology Policy Strategy at Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) and Managing Director of Qualcomm Belgium. Her extensive professional background also encompasses executive roles at CISCO Systems (CSCO), IRIDIUM LLC (a Motorola company), ELSACOM (formerly part of the FINMECCANICA Group), and TELESPAZIO of the STET Group. In these capacities, she spearheaded technology policy strategies, regulatory affairs, market access initiatives, IP strategy development, industry alliances & partnerships, standardization strategies, global partnership development, and antitrust efforts.

In 2020, Isabella was appointed Director, Non-Executive Board Member (NED) at CDP SGR Ventures – Fondo Innovazione Italia, the venture arm of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti, managing assets exceeding €2.5 billion. During her tenure she was also a member of the Control and Risks Committee.

In 2014 she founded High Pulse GmbH in 2014, a consulting firm specializing in digitalization strategies for public and private clients. She served as Chairman of 4iP, a policy think-tank advocating for capital-intensive industries, and held several mandates as a Board Member of Women in Leadership, a European organization promoting STEM careers for women through the Women Talent Pool Program. During her tenure at Qualcomm, she oversaw the company's ESG program, Wireless Reach, for the European region.

Giuseppe Pisani born in Catanzaro on April 6, 1964; Graduated in Electronic Engineering, Computer Science specialization, at the Polytechnic of Milan. He began his career in 1988 at IBM, dealing with technological issues in the Public and Energy sectors; in particular, he participated in the development of the first application prototypes of virtual reality. In 1994 he moved to Banca Akros where he reached the role of Head of Organization and Information Technology; directly reporting to the CEO, he was responsible for coordinating the application developments of the Planning & Control and Front Office areas. Since 1999 in a management consulting firm (then Arthur Andersen MBA) where he directed complex projects at medium/large financial institutions with impacts in the organizational and technological field. In 2001 he joined PwC Advisory with the goal of developing the technological offering for the Financial Services market. He was appointed Partner in 2005; over these years he has held various roles and responsibilities: from 2005 to 2016 Technology Leader for the Financial Services market in Italy; from 2013 to 2016 member of the PwC Central Cluster (EMEA) FS Technology Committee. From 2018 to 2024, he has held the position of Head of Reporting & Management Control for PwC Italy. Main project experiences in PwC are related to: ICT Strategy & Transformation, IT Risk & Regulatory, IT Due Diligence, System Implementation, Cost Allocation, Budget & Forecast, Management Reporting