He graduated in economics and commerce in 1978. He has been registered as a chartered accountant since 1980 and in 1995 he joined the register of auditors. He is a founding partner of Studio Professionale Strada Borghetti Cavo e Associati, established in 1992. Within the firm, Giancarlo Strada mainly provides consultancy on corporate and commercial matters, in extraordinary transactions such as mergers, demergers, joint ventures and company valuations. He also coordinates the firm’s activities in insolvency and pre-bankruptcy matters, personally collaborating with the Court of Genoa since 1981 as Curator, Judicial Commissioner and Technical Consultant. He has acted as certifier and financial advisor in numerous cases of composition with creditors, restructuring agreements pursuant to art. 82 bis of the Finance Act and reorganisation agreements pursuant to art. 67 of the Finance Act. He works in the field of corporate governance, holding the position of Chairman of the Board of Statutory Auditors, Statutory Auditor or Director in numerous companies, including listed companies included in the FTSE MIB index, operating in the insurance, financial, banking, commercial and industrial sectors. He acts as a Sole Arbitrator and as a member of Arbitration Boards. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and of the Italian Trust Association. From time to time, he also lectures at conferences and training events, mainly on insolvency, corporate and trust matters. He has assisted, by carrying out evaluations and preliminary due diligence and participating in negotiations, in management buy-outs, acquisitions and disposals of numerous packages of shares in companies operating in various sectors. He has assisted in the establishment of OICVR, closed-end investment funds under Italian law and in the preparation of prospectuses prior to the collection of savings from the public, taking care of the preliminary phase with CONSOB and the Bank of Italy.