Management Team

Luca Buonocore, PhD
Founder - Board Member
Business leader with +15 years of experience in Financial Services. Ex Bain. MSc in Electronic Engineering, PhD in Environmental technologies & Forest ecology, MBA from SDA Bocconi.

Alessandro Darpa
Founder - Board Member
COO with +15 years of experience in Financial Services and start-up. Ex Bain. MSc in Economics.

Martina Leoni, PhD
Head of Monitoring
PhD in Environmental Technologies and Forest Ecology, specialised in carbon farming in tree and agroforestry systems. Experience with IoT sensors, LiDAR and eddy covariance for measuring carbon sequestration in agriculture.

Mariarita Cammarata, PhD
Head of Compliance
PhD in Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science. Specialist consultant in Carbon Footprint and Carbon Neutrality, Life Cycle Assessment modeller. Expert in the mechanisms of participation in the Voluntary Carbon Market, she carries out research and consulting activities for decarbonisation strategies in the agri-food and industrial sectors.

Marco Funaro, PhD
Fractional CTO
CTO with +15 years of experience in delivering tech solutions and managing teams in start-up environments. PhD and MSc in Computer Science.

Federico Ghiazza
Fractional CDO
Senior data scientist with +15 years of experience in developing advanced analytics solutions and managing teams in start-ups. MSc in Statistics.

Alessio Di Lucca
Execution and finance lead
With +5 years of experience in startups and venture capital, he has supported more than 50 companies in defining financing strategies, helping to raise more than 10 million euros. Degree in economics and finance, master's in lean startup and digital project management.

Maria Vincenza Chiriacò, PhD
Advisor - founder
Senior Scientific Researcher with +15 years of expertise on carbon credits market and carbon policy. PhD in Science and Technology for Forestry and Environmental Management.

Marco Romanelli
Legal Advisor - founder
Lawyer with many years of experience in the regulation of banks and financial intermediaries.

Giorgio Politano
Legal Advisor - founder
Lawyer specializing in corporate, banking, and financial markets law.
Technical Committee

Jens Abildtrup
Research Scientist at INRAE specializing in environmental and natural resource economics. His work focuses on econometrics, forest economics, ecosystem service valuation, and land-use policies. He contributes to research and policy initiatives on forestry, climate change, biodiversity, and carbon farming in Europe.

Ana Rey
Ana Rey is a Senior Scientist and Head of the Department of Biogeography and Global Change at the National Museum of Natural Science, a centre of the Spanish National Research Council (MNCN-CSIC) in Madrid. Her research focuses on biogeochemical cycles and gas exchange between terrestrial ecosystems and the atmosphere in response to global change, with particular emphasis on how climate and land-use changes affect carbon sequestration and ecosystem resilience.

Christian Salas-Eljatib
Christian Salas-Eljatib is a Full Professor at Universidad de Chile specializing in forest biometrics and modelling. His research focuses on applied statistics, ecological modelling, and forest ecology. He develops quantitative models to predict forest dynamics, analyse tree growth, and support sustainable forest management.

Riccardo Valentini
Full Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of Tuscia. Pioneer in the study of terrestrial carbon and in the development of advanced technologies for its monitoring. Represented the Italian government in international climate negotiations. Nobel Prize 2007 as a member of the IPCC council. Top 1% most cited scientists in the world.

Cong (Vega) Xu
Cong Xu is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, specializing in forest remote sensing. Her research applies LiDAR, UAVs, satellite data, machine learning, and AI to forest monitoring and geospatial modelling. Her work focuses on forest classification, health assessment, biomass and carbon estimation, and land-cover mapping.
Advisory Board

Alessandro Chieffi
Lawyer and founding partner of Koiné, with extensive experience in corporate law, corporate governance, and financial markets. He served as Head of Legal Affairs at the Borsa Italiana Group, contributing to the development of the Corporate Governance Code for listed companies and major M&A transactions. He provides legal advisory and Board Review services to listed companies.

Riccardo Ranalli
President of Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni and one of Italy's leading experts in corporate restructuring and governance. He collaborated with Parliament, the Government, and the Ministry of Justice on the reform of the Italian Code on Business Crisis. His professional work covers the valuation, restructuring, and strategic management of companies, banking groups, and insurance firms.

Simone Scettri
Former President of EY Italy with extensive experience in auditing, corporate governance, and financial reporting. He has held prominent roles at CONSOB, ESMA, and the Italian Accounting Body (OIC). He teaches at LUISS, covering corporate governance, internal controls, and financial and ESG reporting.
The project roadmap
JULY 2025
Folia Establishment
Company foundation
OCTOBER 2025
Certification scheme
Standards and methodologies
Q4 2025
Pilot projects
Field activities
AUTUMN 2026
European recognition application
Scheme recognition by the Commission