Roberta Benaglia Bio

Roberta Benaglia, graduated magna cum laude in Industrial Engineering at Politecnico of Milan, started her working experience in the Listing Department of Borsa Italiana. Later she gained twenty years of experience in Private Equity: the first experience in PE is dated 2001, when she joins Onetone Consulting, advisory Company of the Venture Capital Fund Onetone, committed to invest in ICT&Media companies, with strong growth potential. From 2003 she has worked for DGPA&Co, in the Team that Advised The Absolute Ventures SCA Fund. Since 2005 she is Founding Partner of STYLE CAPITAL SGR (former DGPA SGR) and she has significantly contributed to the launch and management of DGPA CAPITAL Fund (from 2007), being responsible for all the investment in Fashion e Consumer Brands sectors (responsible for over the 50% of the capital invested by the Fund). In particular, Roberta Benaglia managed the investments in Twin-Set, Sundek, Damiani sitting on their boards with executive roles, and in Golden Goose with the role of CEO and Chairman. Since 2016, Roberta Benaglia has been the CEO and main shareholder of the renewed SGR that promotes STYLE CAPITAL Fund. To date Roberta covers the role of Chairman at ZIMMERMANN and forte_forte, Executive Chairman at MSGM, Executive VP at LuisaViaRoma and Board Chairman at Soeur.