About Us

A pan-European network of advisors ready to help
the growth of your sustainable business.

Welcome, we
are Magfi!

Established by Filippo Giancarlo Martinelli (MBA, PDEng, MSc) in Q1 2020 in the Republic of Malta, Magfi ltd leverages the cumulative experience of our advisors at the interface between management consulting, fundraising, and sales within a number of deeptech fields. Magfi has a special focus on cutting edge innovation within the foodtech, biotech and cleantech space. We service our clients’ different “MONEY and PEOPLE needs” acting as “one-stop-shop” solutions provider for your challenges while maintaining both a boutique consulting firm attitude, with very limited overhead and thus cost-effective for our clients.

Meet our core TEAM!

While Magfi can count on a growing number of advisors and collaborators as part of our network, a core team of like-minded individuals represents the core of our organisation. Scroll down to learn more about the “faces behind the name”.

Filippo Martinelli

Director and Owner

Vanessa Spadaro

Advisor

Veronica Di Lorenzo

Advisor

Zoi Volioti

Advisor

George Ciamita

Advisor

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Filippo Giancarlo Martinelli

Filippo Giancarlo Martinelli (MBA, EngD, MSc) is Director and Owner of Magfi Ltd <sustainability in action> (https://www.magfi.eu/), having 10-year experience working at the interface between management consulting, fundraising, and sales within a number of deeptech sectors including biotech, foodtech and cleantech.
In 2019 he had the pleasure to serve as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (Growing Ireland’s Bioeconomy Together – https://bioeconomyfoundation.com/), Ireland national bioeconomy association and innovation cluster, which he still supports as European Ambassador and coordinator of the EU-funded project BioeconomyVentures (https://www.bioeconomyventures.eu/).
Prior to that he worked within PNO Consultants group of firms, the European leader in grant consulting and innovation processes management, moving from Consultant (2014-2016) to Pipeline Manager (2016-2017), Brussels-EU P&L unit Operations Manager (2017-2018) as well as International Sector Team Leader Agri-Food Bioeconomy (2018).
During his career, Filippo has gathered direct technical experience operating within the fields of biofuels (Agroils Technologies), biochemicals (Delft Advanced Biorenewables) and bio-actives (KtedoGEN/NAICONS), as well as management consulting and project development experience for innovative projects within several other industrial sectors such as agri-food, forestry, marine, textile and critical raw materials, being deeply involved into enabling the implementation of cutting-edge sustainable innovation within society.
His educational background includes a BSc in Biotechnology (2009, Parma, IT), an MSc in Industrial Biotechnology (2011, Milan, IT), a Professional Doctorate in Engineering (PDEng) in BioProduct Design (2014, Delft, NL) and an Executive MBA (2017, Rotterdam, NL).

Vanessa Spadaro

Vanessa Spadaro (MSc) joined MAGFI from the very beginning as its first MAGFI Advisor. She is involved in the company financial/legal management, in the project management of Magfi projects as well as she focuses on EU compliance services for Magfi clients. She is also actively involved in the development and deployment of Magfi training services.
Between 2017 and 2019 she worked as Programme Coordinator of several editions of the intensive Master programme created by the Belgian-Italian Chamber of Commerce focused on the EU project management. Within the same period, Vanessa was also responsible of connecting European and Israeli entrepreneurs within novel disruptive market as part of the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Global programme. In 2019 she worked as an Education Project Manager at ESTRO Aisbl in Brussels, where she organized educational courses created for doctors working in the radiotherapy and oncology field.
Her educational background includes a BA (2011) in Economics and Business and a MSc (2013) in International Economics and Business (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy).

Veronica Di Lorenzo

Veronica Di Lorenzo (MSc) is a Magfi ltd Advisor focused on technology solutions within the biotech and foodtech sectors, having over 5 years experience within the broader bioeconomy space. She is particularly active in business intelligence and EU proposal writing services.

Prior to joining Magfi she worked as Research Fellow at University of Tuscia DAFNE (Italy) within the NEMESI project (Green chemical nanotechnologies for the sustainable protection of plants) in 2020/2021. Before that, she focused on the bio-chemicals and biofuels production sector, via its her experiences in the R&D Lab of Versalis spa Renewable Research Center of Rivalta Scrivia (Italy) in 2019 as well as at University of Helsinki, within the “Fungal Genetics and Biotechnology” group for the AromaFung project in 2017/2018.

During her past roles within biotechnology R&D, Veronica has gathered direct technical experience in lignocellulosic biomass valorisation, working with microbial and fungal fermentation, enzymatic hydrolysis, and green and organic chemistry, with the aim to valorise mainly agro-industrial wastes to obtain high value-added bio-chemicals, biofuels, and agro-chemical for plant protection.

Her educational background includes a BSc in Biotechnology (2016, Rome, IT), an MSc in Industrial Biotechnology (2018, Rome, IT), and a Postgraduate Master in Bioeconomy and Circular Economy (2019, Milan, IT).

Zoi Volioti

Zoi Volioti (MSc, BA) is the Magfi ltd Advisor leading the company Communications activities. Within the Magfi team she manages Communication and Dissemination WPs in EU projects and has handled branding and B2B communications strategies for clients’ products.

From 2013 to 2019 she worked as a Business Development Manager, Communications Consultant, Project Manager and Marketing Assistant at Sustainability Consult within in Brussels. Among her tasks were to manage Communication and Dissemination Work Packages in Horizon 2020 projects in the fields of blue economy, bioeconomy, sustainability and education. She has handled communications strategies, including media relations, PR, development of key brand messaging, online media management, events and awards participation, stakeholder engagement and advocacy work for top tier industrial and start-up clients within the bioeconomy and sustainability spectrum. She has 10 years of international networking experience, events organisation and participation, speaking and moderating. Since 2019, she also acted as Expert Evaluator for a number of EU call for proposals.

Prior to her life in Brussels, she was the Co-Founder/Editor of the bilingual online magazine ARTIVIST, a social cooperative devoted to promoting sustainability, arts and culture, human rights and active citizenship.

Her educational background includes a BA in International and European Studies (2008, University of Piraeus, Greece) and a MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability (2010, University of Lund, Sweden).

George Ciamita

George Ciamita is the Magfi ltd Advisor leading the company graphic design, web design and development activities, having more than 5 years of experience in this field working to help customers and brands to identify and solve their difficulties and transform their vision into reality as well as communicate with their users and clients through graphic design and development.

From 2017 to 2020 he co-founds and worked as a lead graphic designer for NOE Boutique (Nature of Earth) a clothing and accessories brand, among his duties and responsibilities were assure the quality of design, developing design concepts for the t-shirt line, prototyping, video advertising, marketing materials, online store maintenance.

As of 2018, under his own person brand “Evor Design” he specialises in graphic design and visual identity, packaging, web design and development. As graphic designer he has helped dozens of businesses across Europe by developing a solid identity and improving their workflow, since that he has developed over 30 brands visual identities, 20 websites, 5 eCommerce stores, 5 web apps.

Having started as self-thought professional in the 90s, his educational background was further complemented by a graphic design specialization (2018 California Institute of the Arts), an Adobe ACE in Photoshop and Illustrator CC (2019 Adobe Certified Expert) and a Writing, Design, and Presentation Specialization (2019 University of Colorado Boulder) as was as by continuous learning on the job to keep up and push forward in the ever evolving graphic and web-design field.