Manuela Franchi was graduated cum laude with a degree in Economics from the Bocconi University in Milan.

From 2000 to 2003 she worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the credit risk management and rating advisory division in the London branch and from 2003 to 2006 as an associate in the investment banking division. From 2006 to 2008 she held the office of vice president at Merrill Lynch’s investment banking-telecom, media and technology team division in London. From 2008 to 2015 she has taken on several positions at Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s investment banking division in Rome, including that of Vice president, Director and Managing Director.

In 2016 she joined the doValue Group being responsible of the M&A and Finance, structuring all financing of doValue M&A transactions and leading successfully the completion of the IPO process. Since 2020 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.

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. Currently she is also CEO of doNext.