First Elite Day launches in Milan

(ANSA) - Milan, September 27 - Elite, the London Stock Exchange's international programme to support companies in their plans related to growth and access to capital, is taking flight on October 1 in Milan with Elite Day, the programme's first-ever conference, to be held at the stock exchange headquarters.
    The programme started in 2012 in Italy and rapidly became an international success story, with more than 900 companies from over 30 countries taking part.
    Elite Day will begin with speeches from Raffaele Jerusalmi, Borsa Italiana CEO and Elite president; Michael Spence, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics; and John Davis, president of the Cambridge Family Enterprise Group; to be followed by an interview with Andrea Guerra, executive president of Eataly.
    Round table sessions will focus on the programme's global outlook and participants will include the following partners in the Elite Global Alliance, the international network that Elite is developing throughout the world: for Saudi Arabia, Abdulrahman Alsmailper, general manager of Monsha'at, the Saudi Small and Medium Enterprises Authority; for Brazil, Eduardo Campos, business development director for IDMC; for Morocco, Karim Hajji, CEO of the Casablanca stock exchange; for the West African Economic and Monetary Union, Kossi Felix Edoh Amenouve, general manager of Bourse Régionale Des Valeurs Mobilières; for Hungary, Richard Vegh, CEO of the Budapest stock exchange; and for Lebanon, Sami N. Saliba, executive board member of Capital Markets Authority.
    Elite Day will include networking sessions and closed-door workgroup sessions with executives and managers of leading international organisations including IBM, Illy, Swift, ESA, Vodafone, and Wipro.
    The day will close with a speech by Elite CEO Luca Peyrano, who will present future strategies and new international partnerships.
    photos: Elite CEO Peyrano