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Massimiliano is the Chief Audit Executive at TIM S.p.A., and acting President of ECIIA. Massimiliano has a proven track record of transforming Group Internal Audit departments across various sectors. He also served as the Chief Audit Executive at Ferrero International in Luxembourg and served as the Senior Manager of Global Audit for Heineken in Africa and the Middle East, based in the Netherlands.
Massimiliano actively contributes as a Board Member and Executive Committee member of the Italian Chapter of the Institute of Internal Audit (AIIA), alongside his leadership role at ECIIA.
Andrea Bracht heads up the Internal Audit department of Commerzbank AG on Executive level. Until she took over her role in October 2015 she was in charge of overseeing all audit activities related to Commerzbank AG’s investment banking business globally.
Being a trained bank officer with a degree in business administration (Universities of Passau, Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and Budapest), Andrea started her career in Dresdner Bank where she worked in Group Audit’s Investment banking audit division. In 2007 she became Chief Operating Officer of Group Treasury being responsible for the management of the function’s operational business for more than five years. Andrea is member of the executive board of the DIIR – Deutsches Institut für Interne Revision (German IIA).
Gabriela González-Valdés is deputy chief executive officer at The Institute of Internal Auditors in Spain.
I am honoured to be the Chief Executive of the Chartered Institute of Internal Auditors. We are the membership body for internal auditors in the UK and Ireland. The breadth of what internal auditors do is far broader than external auditors and I am bowled over by the passion of our members for what they do.
For 8 fantastic years I was Chief Executive of the Chartered Association of Business Schools, the membership body for the UK’s world class business schools. What these world class business schools do for their students and the UK economy is amazing.
Previously I managed the regulatory and schools sections of what is now the London Institute of Banking and Finance, a financial education body and HEI provider.
Previously I was a global fixed income strategist at Barclays, responsible for developing a uniform approach to bond investments across the global offices and a secondary Mathematics teacher, tutor and as Head of Department.
I am also a Senior Honorary Steward at Westminster Abbey.
Dr Rachel Barlow joins ECIIA in July 2025 as their new CEO.
Educated as a lawyer and with a background in association leadership, Rachel is a Senior Adviser to the European Policy Centre and a former Professor of lobbying at the Brussels School of Governance.
A self-confessed governance geek, Rachel relishes rendering complex organisations more effective so that they can better serve their members and fulfil their respective missions. She has more recently worked as a headhunter for executive not for profit roles and with Boards of NGOs and Foundations to advise on Public Affairs and craft Codes of Conduct and Terms of Reference.
As a former Vice President of Kellen Europe (an association management company), Rachel has led, created, managed, advised and represented European and International multi-level organisations throughout her 25-year career.
Brussels based, Rachel is British and Belgian. She speaks fluent French and Italian.
Jens Motel is Head of Unit Internal Auditing, Risk Management, Controlling Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control at BAFA. He previously served in adminstrative functions at BAFA. Motel is a board member of IIA Germany.
Roberto Fargion is the Chief Executive Officer at IIA Italy.
Pascale Vandenbussche is Managing Director of Meilleurs Conseils Financiers. She was Senior Manager with the global consultancy Accenture for the Finance and Performance Management Product Line. Prior to that, she was Financial Director, Europe for the Sicpa Group, a leading global provider of security inks. She started work as an External Auditor at KPMG before moving to a division of the industrial conglomerate Union Minière as an Internal Audit Manager. Pascale teaches Finance in several business schools in Belgium and France. In 2010, she was appointed Secretary of the Board of ECIIA. Since October 2011, she has been Secretary General of ECIIA.
Soledad is the Head of Internal Audit (CAE), Risk Management, and Internal Control at Canal de Isabel II (Public Entity) She is an MSc Civil Engineer, MBA, CIA, CCSA, CRMA and the first certified COSO in Spain. Since 2013 Soledad has collaborated with ECIIA and EUROSAI (European Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions) to establish common auditing guidelines for Internal Audits in Public Entities and SAI’S, and since 2017 she has been the Chair of the working group of both organizations.
