Valeria Sandei

Almaviva Group Chief Global AI Officer, Almawave Labs President & CEO

She also holds the positions of President and CEO of Almawave do Brasil, and President of Almawave Corp, The Data Appeal Company, SisTer - Sistemi Territoriali, and Mabrian Technologies OBDA Systems. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of TIVIT and Almaviva Solutions.

She is Counselor of OBDA Systems and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the "Fondazione Musica per Roma", as well as of ELIS Fellow.

She is also a member of  B7 Advisory Board del B7 and Astrid Observatory on Artificial Intelligence. She has coauthored 3 US Patents,Elis Fellow 2024-2026, is part of the MBA AI & Business Strategy Scientific Board at the RCS Academy Business School.  She is a TEDx speaker, was listed in the Top 100 Forbes Italian Women in 2021, and in the Top 100 Conversational AI Women in 2023.

She joined Almaviva Group in 2004, where she held several positions, among which Group Strategic Marketing Chief Officer, from 2013 through 2022.

Born in Venice in 1976, graduated in “Economics of Financial Markets" at L. Bocconi University in Milan, she began her professional career at JP Morgan, and later moved to Accenture Strategy Area of the Financial Services Practice.