Pascal Quiry is an adjunct finance teacher in the leading French business school HEC Paris, and a managing director at BNP Paribas Corporate Finance, specialising in M&A transactions for listed companies.

Maurizio Dallocchio is the current Dean of the leading Italian business school Bocconi (Milan) and Lehman Brothers chair of Corporate Finance. He is also a board member of several listed and unlisted companies and is one of the most distinguished Italian authorities on finance.

Yann Le Fur is a corporate finance teacher at HEC Paris business school and an investment banker with Mediobanca in Paris (after several years with Schroders and Citigroup).

Antonio Salvi is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Bocconi and the University of Venice where he teaches corporate finance. His areas of research cover cost of capital, structure of debt finance and corporate governance.

Pierre Vernimmen who died in 1996, was both an M&A dealmaker (he advised Louis Vuitton on its merger with Moët Henessy to create LVMH, the world luxury goods leader) and a finance teacher at HEC Paris. His book, Finance d’Entreprise, was and still is the top selling financial textbook in French speaking countries and is the forebear of Corporate Finance: Theory and European Practice.