Leadership

Monica Dell’ Anna, PhD

Entrepreneur and board member

Biography

Monica Dell’Anna is a member of the Board of Directors and Chair of the Nomination and remuneration committee of Swissquote Group and sits on the Advisory Board of Accenture Switzerland. She is also working on an entrepreneurial project between Switzerland and Italy.

Experienced executive with track record in general management, product development and digital transformation in the telecom, energy and media sectors, she has a strong technical background with long experience in commercial and strategical roles. Customer and people oriented, Monica is very passionate about delivering results and making a difference through entrepreneurship. The Italian-Swiss dual national started her career at McKinsey and worked at Swisscom for ten years. She then moved to the Executive Board of BKW, after which she was a member of the Executive Board of NZZ and General Manager Switzerland and Austria at the Adecco Group. She has served on several boards of directors. Monica holds a PhD in telecommunications engineering.

Talk

Fault Lines and Front Lines - Board leadership in an age of disruption

Geopolitics draws the fault lines, Boards stand on the front lines with specific as well as common challenges. Take a cyber incident: For a listed company it raises a disclosure question, for a state-owned group a public one, for a regulated bank a supervisory matter, and for a health insurer a question of trust. Same event, four boardrooms, four specific challenges but also many common aspects to address such as customer impact. Resilience involves recognising the factors that characterise a specific crisis for a given company.