THE MAYOR OF VENICE
Honorary Chairman
WALTER HARTSARICH
Vice Chairman & President of Civic Museums Foundation of Venice
CATHERINE ORENTREICH
VIVIEN WEISSMAN HOWARD
FRANCA COIN
President
SAMUEL M. WEISSMAN
Treasurer
DONNA REDEL
MICHAEL L. CIOFFI
Chairman
DONNA KENDALL
SUSAN STROMAN
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
The advisory committee makes suggestions about the strategic guidelines of Friends of Venice Italy and develops its public relations with the aim of promoting its cultural project at an international level, with fundraising oriented goals. It includes the members of the Board of Directors of The Venice International Foundation. At the moment it consists of:
ANTONIO AND GIOVANNA ARMELLINI
Diplomatic Official
IRENE BIGNARDI
Film Critic
TIZIANA HARDY
Philanthropist
ELLEN MARMUR
Founding Director of Marmur Medical
GIANCARLO SANTALMASSI
Journalist
VITTORIO TABACCHI
Entrepreneur and honorary President of the Safilo Group
UMBERTO VATTANI
Diplomatic Official
LAURIE BECKELMAN
Founder of Beckelman + Capalino
ALESSANDRO CECCHI PAONE
Journalist
CHRISSIE ILES
The “Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz” curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art
CESARE RIMINI
Attorney
MASSIMO SCOLARI
Architect and Designer
JESS TING
Professor of Surgery and Plastic Surgery
CARLO VILLANACCI
Colonel at the Italian Embassy, Washington D.C.
GABRIELLA BELLI
Director of Civic Museums Foundation of Venice
GIUSTINA DESTRO
President of Bellisario Foundation
JONATHAN MARDER
Founder of Jonathan Marder & Company
GIOVANNA SACCHETTI
Philanthropist
CRISTIANO SEGANFREDDO
Director of Fuoribiennale and Founder of The INNOVeTION VALLEY Project
LUISA TODINI
President of Poste Italiane and Member of the Italy-USA Foundation
DIANNE WALLACE
Philanthropist