Adama Sanneh
Co-Founder, CEO
Adama is the Co-Founder and CEO of the Moleskine Foundation. Adama brings a unique hybrid background in management and cultural studies to his work designing and building innovative organisations able to generate social impact.
Adama graduated in Linguistic and Cultural Mediation from the University of Milan, obtained a Master in Public Management (MPM) from the Bocconi School of Management and a Master in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Geneva. After graduating, he worked as a management and strategy consultant for various public and not-for-profit organizations among which the United Nations, in education, social entrepreneurship, and innovation.
As the CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, he is committed to explore and leverage the intersection of business, education, culture, and social development to create new and meaningful public value.
Elena Korzhenevich
Co-founder and Programs Director
Elena was born in Moscow, Russia, but feels like a citizen of the world. She obtained her first degree in Linguistics and International Communication at the Moscow State Linguistic University. She continued with her Masters of Science in Journalism and Mass Communication with focus in Advertising at San Jose State University, California, USA. She spent 13 years working at such advertising agencies as Ogilvy&Mather, Goodby, Silverstein&Partners and Leo Burnett, where she was a Client Service Director on multiple key international accounts on a worldwide and European level.
In May 2014 she decided to radically change her career path and devote herself entirely to culture and knowledge first as Director of Communication of the Foundation and then move on to the current role of Director of Programs. In her free time she dances, attends film festivals and gets to know the world.
Rossella Zanelli
Art Collection Manager
With a background in Foreign Languages and Literature from IULM University in Milan, Rossella began her career in a multinational pharmaceutical company, where she gained extensive experience across key departments, particularly in institutional and corporate communication. She later joined Edelman Public Relations Worldwide as Senior Account Executive, specializing in healthcare communication. After a few years, Rossella moved to Paris with her family, where she spent three enriching and formative years. Upon returning to Italy, she decided to shift her professional focus toward the non-profit and cultural sectors, joining lettera27.
At the foundation, Rossella plays a key role in managing and curating the foundation’s notebook collection. Her work is centered on promoting the collection as a cultural and fundraising resource, through exhibitions and storytelling initiatives. She holds a Master’s degree in Management of Artistic and Cultural Heritage and Corporate Collections.
Susanna Todeschini
Financial Manager
Susanna is a multidisciplinary professional with a strong international background and a passion for finding solutions to complex challenges. Trained as an architect for sustainability with a master’s degree from Politecnico di Torino, she later expanded her path as an entrepreneur, co-founding two innovative startups in the construction field. For over ten years she led their operations and finance while completing her Executive MBA at SDA Bocconi School of Management in Milan.
Following her drive to turn ideas into reality and to manage growth through continuous innovation, in 2022 she began working as a venture builder and strategy consultant. She developed startups from scratch, spin-offs for corporates, and processes for financial management and control, always focusing on aligning business models with the SDGs.
She joined Moleskine Foundation at the end of 2023 and today she is responsible for structuring and guiding the financial departments in Italy, the US, and South Africa.
Marina Mussapi
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Marina joins the Moleskine Foundation with over ten years of experience in strategic planning and project management in the cultural sector. Believing in the power of culture to address social challenges and foster change, she has focused her career on supporting organizations that place communities at the center, encourage participatory practices, and amplify underrepresented voices.
From 2016 to 2022, she worked at BASE Milano, a creative hub born from one of Europe’s largest culture-led urban regeneration projects, where she oversaw project development and institutional fundraising. She has collaborated with Italian and international consulting firms, developing strategic and business plans and impact assessments for museums, theatres, festivals, and other cultural institutions, and served as Adjunct Professor of Arts Economics at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.
Born in Milan, she holds a degree in Cultural Economics and Management from Bocconi University and a Master’s in Management of Creative Business Processes from Copenhagen Business School. Passionate about photography and music, she plays the cello in a rock band.
Alessia Losa
Communication & Community Officer
Alessia is a young cultural practitioner with a background in Arts, Media, and Cultural Events from IULM University, and a Dual Master’s in Heritage Studies: Museum Studies from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked as a freelance project assistant at the Prince Claus Fund, as an artist assistant, and contributed to a Pan-European youth advocacy project.
After returning to Italy in 2023, she was selected for the Advanced Training in Fundraising by Fondazione CRT while completing a four-month extracurricular internship at the Moleskine Foundation. She also holds a second MA in World Heritage Studies and Cultural Development Projects from the University of Turin, supported by a scholarship from Hangar Piemonte, with a thesis focusing on community management and cultural transformation in peripheral areas of the Piedmont region.
Since 2024, Alessia has been part of the Moleskine Foundation team as Community & Communication Officer.
Agustina O' Farrell
Strategy Consultant
In early 2025, she joined the Moleskine Foundation, further advancing her work supporting creativity for social impact. She has over 18 years of experience at the intersection of impact investing, culture, and social entrepreneurship.
From 2020 to 2024 she was part of Alterna, leading CROMÁTICA, a pioneering program cultivating impact enterprises in the creative economy. She has found in impact investing in the creative economy a way to bridge her two passions: fostering social and environmental impact through arts and culture. Her career began with Ashoka in Buenos Aires, followed by leadership roles at the Womanity Foundation, Thomson Reuters Foundation’s TrustLaw, and as Managing Director of Impact Economy in Latin America.
She also gained private sector experience at UBS Philanthropy Services in Geneva. A Chevening Scholar at LSE and an Oxford University Scholar, Agustina has pursued specialized studies in art, culture management, and creative industries. Based in Bologna, she continues to champion creativity as a driver of social innovation and systemic change.
Lwando Xaso
Narrative Designer
Lwando Xaso is a lawyer, writer, curator and facilitator. She practised as a lawyer at some of South Africa’s biggest firms, with a focus on constitutional law as a tool of transformation. She was deeply impacted by her experience of clerking at the Constitutional Court of South Africa which taught her that law alone cannot change the world which inspired her to drive changemaking through interdisciplinary thinking and doing at the intersection of law and creativity.
Currently she is an advisor to the Moleskine Foundation and serves as writer and editor for Folios, its annual cultural publication. She is also establishing the Creativity for Social Change Hub in South Africa furthering the mission of the Creativity Pioneers Fund by supporting South African Creativity Pioneers vital to the advancement of social justice.
She is the author of Made in South Africa; A Black Woman’s Stories of Rage, Resistance and Progress which was longlisted for the Sunday Times CNA Literary Award for nonfiction. She is a Trustee of the Constitutional Court and also a 2022 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity.
Executive Board
Maria Sebregondi
President
Adama Sanneh
Co-founder, CEO
Roberto Di Puma
Co-founder
Fabio Rosciglione
Co-founder
Christophe Archaimbault
Moleskine S.r.l. Chief Commercial Officer
Tania Gianesin
Co-founder
Manfredi Ricca
Global Chief Strategy Officer at Interbrand
Founder
Maria Sebregondi
Co-founder, President
Co-founder of the Moleskine Company, she conceived the notebook line in the 1990s. Director of Brand Equity and Communication until 2015, she was then a strategic advisor and Board Member of Moleskine. Currently she does not hold a position in the Company and is completely dedicated to non-profit activities.
Previously she worked independently as a consultant on strategic communications and product concept. Her professional experiences led to several teaching positions at various public and private universities.
Author of several socio-anthropological essays and articles on contemporary change, her writing also extend to various other areas: creative writing, poetry, non-fiction and literary translation.
She was a co-founder of the non-profit foundation lettera27 and a member of OPLEPO, Opificio di Letteratura Potenziale (Workshop of Potential Literature).
Marco Belpoliti
Co-founder
Marco Belpoliti is an essayist and writer, a professor of Literary Criticism and Literature and Visual Arts at the University of Bergamo and he collaborates with “L’Espresso” and “La Repubblica”. Marco is co-editor in chief of the “Riga” series (Marcos y Marcos) and the online magazine “doppiozero.com “.
With Guanda he has published: Il tramezzino del dinosauro, Il corpo del capo, Senza vergogna, Pasolini in salsa piccante, La canottiera di Bossi, Da quella prigione, L’età dell’estremismo, Primo Levi di fronte e di profilo, La strategia della farfalla. With Einaudi: L’occhio di Calvino e Settanta.
He has edited many works by Primo Levi and an edition of his complete Works (Einaudi 2016).
Roberto Di Puma
Co-founder, Board Member
Entrepreneur and manager, since 1975 he has been working in cultural organizations and cooperatives, developing editorial and product innovation products.
From 2004 to 2018 he covered various positions at Moleskine as part of Management (B2B, product design, publishing, licensing and new business).
In 2006 he Co- founded the non-profit foundation lettera27 that became Moleskine Foundation in 2017.
Fabio Rosciglione
Co-founder, Board Member
Co-founder of the Moleskine Company, he was in charge of sales and marketing since its foundation in the 1990’s. He defined Moleskine global distribution strategies and built its worldwide sales network. At the end of 2014 he became senior advisor, and since the end of 2015 he does not hold a position at the Company.
In the previous years of his professional career, he worked as CEO and as a strategic marketing consultant at a number of design companies. During his professional experience, he carried out training activities for selected private companies and universities.
Thanks to his passion for traveling and sailing he developed numerous projects based on solidarity principles, diffusion of knowledge and cultural exchange.
Today he is active in non-profit activities aiming at promoting dialogue and mutual exchange of ideas among people of the sea and their different cultural languages.
Tania Gianesin
Co-founder, Board Member
Member of the General Council and the Executive Board of the Moleskine Foundation.
Tania has a role of consultant and transversal advisor in several areas: Fundraising, Learning, Network, Partnership. She has been dealing with unconventional educational practices for almost 30 years, in various disciplines: music, journalism, ethical fashion, food & wellbeing, sensoriality and synaesthetics. He deeply believes in Creativity for Social Change and in its therapeutic power, in whatever form it manifests itself. In this regard, she constantly deals with research and innovation in various fields. She believes in lifelong learning and achieved the Social Change Manager Open Badge in 2023 through the “Road to Social Change” path – MIP Milan.
She is a member of the Board of Kunstverein Milano and of the Scientific Committee of B&W-the migrant trend in Rome. She shares and promotes the values and the cause of the Fashion Revolution movement (Italy and worldwide).
