Owner, together with his brother and father, of the family business of the same name, 'Cantine Russo', a historic winery on Etna that has been producing and bottling wines since 1955. She attended the European School in Brighton, England, then the Canning Business School in Milan. Gina grew up and played with her brother among the barrels in her grandfather's small cellar. In 1995, she started working in the family business dealing with the accounting and administrative area. Since 2000, she has been in charge of the commercial and marketing area of the business and began travelling the world. A former Board member of the association Strada del Vino dell'Etna, she took over the presidency from Marco Nicolosi last term. She was reconfirmed as president for the second term.
Graduated in economics and finance, after wandering for work between the Emirates , Singapore, Libya and northern Italy, returns to Sicily in 2020 to follow the call of his land. He has worked as a consultant in the field of tourism for governments in the Middle East and North Africa, before founding together with 7 cousins the wine and winery project ``Etna Urban Winery`` in San Gregorio di Catania.
Passionate about social changes, left Sicily after high school to become a Sociologist specializing in Communication and Mass Media, at the University of studies La Sapienza in Rome. She has worked in the south of France for a communication agency, then in Rome and Milan passing by companies florovivaistiche as commercial export and cosmetic chemist as purchasing manager and then marketing manager. In 2008 she obtained an executive MBA to be a little less humanist and become more business oriented, starting the activity of consultant and trainer of communication and marketing that she carries out today. After 21 years spent temporarily out of Sicily, returns to Etna to promote the territory. As a hobby, she plays in an amateur theatre company, transforms old furniture into unique vintage pieces and hosts a radio program.
Born in Trento from trentin father and sicilian mother. I grew up between the Dolomites and Mount Etna, in a mix of rigor and fantasy, confidentiality and vivacity. The number scaries but I started working approaches about 30 years ago. Mainly hotels, love and hate from my professional career. Repudiated to deal with protection of the territory, tour operators and various, I led the start up of several structures, in full line with the search for the adrenaline of new challenges. Today the signature of my emails reads: ``Sales and Marketing Specialist- Tourism and Hospitality Manager`` but I enjoy discovering and experiencing beautiful things and people.
He was born on 5/12/1974. Degree in Building Engineering in 2022. He started immediately to take care of the family business, as a construction contractor he also practises his own profession. He dives with great passion in the world of wine, from now on he is committed to the change of pace of the historic family vineyard to improve quality and start selling bottled wine
The oil has been running through his veins since he was a baby, when his grandfather made him smell and taste. After years of distance from this world, he feels the call and immerses himself with all his heart in order to communicate, disseminate, expand knowledge about what oil is. Oil is travel, oil is culture, oil is passion. From all this is born company Feminò, a reality all sicilian with the objective to grow the attention on an unexplored culture, little known. Feminò comes to be part of this cda with only one goal: to passionate and involve as many people as possible on what the fantastic world of oil is.
