Francesco Di Biase is Executive Advisor at DHTA Sport and a sports marketing, technology, and media professional with over 20 years of international experience.
He has worked with leading organizations across sport, media, and technology, supporting business development, strategic partnerships, commercial growth, and market positioning.
His expertise focuses on helping companies identify new opportunities, build valuable relationships, and bring innovative products and services to market.

Ray Davies, sailor, now coach with Team NZ. Helped bring foiling to mainstream sailing through Teams New Zealands push to get their AC 72 foiling in 2011 for the 2013 Americas cup Was at the beginning of the AC 75 and AC40 class.

Viola Devoti is a Marketing Executive for the America’s Cup, working on brand promotion, audience engagement, and digital communication. She develops creative campaigns and communication ideas that help bring the event to life and connect the brand with audiences worldwide.

Tom Herbert-Evans is SailGP’s Head of Community and Commercial Engagement. He joined the organisation in 2018 to launch SailGP Inspire, the league’s global youth and community program, and now leads community engagement across all SailGP venues worldwide. A native of Wales, Tom has built his career around widening access to sailing and dismantling the barriers that have traditionally kept the sport exclusive.

Adriano Luati is the head of Global Brand Experience and Partnerships at Alfa Romeo, one of the world’s most iconic sporting car Brand. With extensive international experience, he bridges automotive, sailing and sport bringing performance-driven experience across industries. He holds a master’s degrees in international trade.

Michele Marchesini is an Olympic sailor, high-performance coach, and sports executive with more than three decades of experience in elite sailing. A former Olympian, he later coached worlds and Olympic medal-winning campaigns for Spain and Sweden before leading the Italian Sailing Federation’s Olympic program. Since 2013, he has overseen Italy’s high-performance sailing strategy, contributing to multiple Olympic gold medals and world titles.

Richard Moore is Head of Media and Communications at The America’s Cup, where he is responsible for growing The Cup’s fan base and delivering fan engagement. Before joining The America’s Cup he ran a thriving independent creative agency which supported consumer brands such as Bacardi, Havaianas and PUMA and exciting projects such as the growth of sailing in Saudi Arabia.

After a career in the consumer products industry, he has been Treasurer of the French Sailing Federation (FFVoile) since 2018 and Director of the Semaine Olympique Française – Hyères since 2020, and founding member of the Sailing Grand Slam (SGS). He has been sailing one design boats since university and is currently sailing the SB20 (3-person sportsboat) since 2009. He believes sailing has been an Olympic sport since the 1st Games in 1896 and a significant part of the sailing industry has been built and funded around this premise, which is now in jeopardy as a result of audience performance criteria established by the IOC. Collectively, we need to grow significantly the audience following our sport.

Lorenzo Valle is a Mechanical Engineering Master’s student at Politecnico di Torino, passionate about innovation, sports, and hands-on engineering. His experience includes working on composite structures, hydrofoils, racing boats, and aerospace components through collaborations with Persico Marine, MOREnergy Lab, and university sailing teams. He enjoys combining CAD design, FEM analysis, manufacturing, and research to turn ideas into real projects. Outside engineering, he is a very active sportsman and has practiced windsurfing, wingfoiling, skiing, climbing, running, and basketball for many years. He likes challenging environments where teamwork, creativity, and practical problem-solving come together.

Dr. Jorgen Vogt is Secretary General of the Global Foil Board Sports Association (GFA). The GFA governs the non-wind-powered foil board sports. Dr. Vogt is also founder and CEO of the SFT Surf Foil World Tour, which crowns the World Champions in Surf-Foiling, Pump-Foiling, E-Foiling, Wake-Foiling and Downwind-Foiling. A sup-category of Downwind-Foiling is Parawinging.
Since 2019 Dr. Vogt chairs the Global Wingsports Association and the GWA Wingfoil World Tour.