Four years after the success of the first edition in Azerbaijan, Belarus capital Minsk is currently hosting the 2nd edition of the European Games. Four Monegasque athletes are among 4,000 participants from 50 countries competing in 15 different sports.
Judoka Cédric Bessi
From 21st to 30th June, athletes in 10 disciplines will be chasing their qualification for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. They will also be competing for the title of European champion.
The Principality of Monaco is being represented in four sports: boxing, cycling, judo and table tennis.
Cyclist Victor Langellotti
The European Games follows the recent 18th Games of the Small States of Europe in Montenegro, and three medalists from Monaco are also competing in Belarus.
“This is a major competition as the 2nd European Games will allow our athletes to gauge themselves with the very best at a very high level,” said Yvette Lambin-Berti, Secretary General of the Monegasque Olympic Committee.
The athletes wearing red and white will be boxer Hugo Micallef, judoka Yann Siccardi, table tennis player Xiaoxin Yang, judoka Cédric Bessi and cyclist Victor Langellotti.
Judoka Yann Siccardi
In Minsk, the Monegasque delegation is led by Damien Desprat together with coaches Juan Gonzalez (boxing), Guido Possetto (cycling), Marcel Pietri (judo) and Anthony Geminiani (table tennis), as well as Nicolas Pollano (osteopath).
$4 trillion in wealth represented at Anthony Ritossa’s 9th Global Family Office Investment Summit
Final preparations are underway for the 9th Global Family Office Summit to be held from 18th to 20th June in Monaco under the High Patronage of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco and hosted by the 600-year-old Ritossa Family Office.
Giuseppe Ambrosio, President, Monaco Single & Multi-Family Office International Association, Monaco and Anthony Ritossa, Ritossa Family Office
An elite group of 400+ billionaires, sheikhs, royal families and business leaders representing $4 trillion in investor wealth will be centre stage at the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel for a legendary celebration of global family businesses themed ‘The Rise and Rise of Family Offices’.
“Anthony Ritossa and myself are committed to long-term partnerships in the interest of the substantial families and family offices that consider the Summit as a key opportunity for interaction and collaboration,” said Giuseppe Ambrosio, President of the Monaco Single and Multi Family Office International Association. “There is truly no other event worldwide that offers the high quality of powerful speakers and delegates that Ritossa Family Office Summits provide.
“In fact, the response to the Monaco Summit has been so overwhelming that we had to move the Summit to the Fairmont Monte Carlo Hotel in order to accommodate a record-breaking number of guests.”
Left to right: Giuseppe Ambrosio, President, Monaco Single & Multi-Family Office International Association, Monaco; H.E. Bernard Fautrier, Vice President & CEO, The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Monaco; Mungo Park, Chairman, Innovator Capital & Co-Founder, CleanEquity, Monaco.
The event is now in its third year and the 2019 edition will be chaired by Markus Lehner, member of the Advisory Board and a resident of Monaco for 25 years.
“It is my privilege and honour to serve as the Chairman to the upcoming Family Office Investment Summit here in Monaco. Not only will it take place in our unique Principality, but it will also treat exciting, cutting-edge matters such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and progressive investments, which will change our world like nothing before,“ said Markus Lehner, Principal, Markus Lehner Family Office and Chairman of the Summit.
“I have produced literally thousands of events and conferences around the world and never have I found such a broadness of vision and project. The official support of Sheik Zayed and the Monaco Prince, the presence of the heirs of Bahrain and Yugoslavia ruling families, the heirs of Reynolds, Rockefeller, Bismarck, Muhammad, Menelik, Selassie and a most innovative global finance platform is something unheard of before. Your event ranks in first place as the most astonishing and inspired world summit. I’m very proud to collaborate,” said Matteo Peri, CNBC Europe.
For details on the upcoming invitation-only 9th Global Family Office Investment Summit, email info@MonacoSummit.org.
For further details about the Monaco Single & Multi Family Office International Association and accreditation for local Monegasque family offices, email Giuseppe Ambrosio at info.mc.foa@gmail.com.
The Monaco Economic Board has presented its programme of events to 300 stakeholders in the Principality’s economy gathered for the 35th Members Rendezvous. After an intense BtoB session, Executive Director General Guillaume Rose unveiled changes to the MEB and details of this year’s heavy schedule.
MEB Executive Director General Guillaume Rose
The BtoB session was organised by the Monaco Chamber of Commerce and included 85 one-on-one meetings involving 55 companies. Each lasted 10 minutes, giving those present an opportunity to talk business and make new contacts.
Afterwards guests gathered on the terrace for the Rendezvous itself, which started with a welcome speech by Chairman Michel Dotta.
MEB Executive Director General Guillaume Rose
Executive Director General Guillaume Rose then took to the floor to explain changes at the MEB since his arrival in March. They included the creation of a dedicated department for coordinating actions taken by public and public-private entities involved in operations abroad, and the reinforcement of the Monaco Chamber of Commerce team to give members an improved service.
Mr Rose also announced the main upcoming events which include five trade missions: Bucharest and Rostov-sur-le-Don in September, Naples in October, Turin in November and Seoul in December. For each trip, the MEB is drawing on the knowledge and expertise of local networks, starting with the Principality’s own diplomatic and consular network.
In Italy and Romania, ‘Monaco Destination’ Ambassadors and businesses with strong ties to the Principality will help develop opportunities.
Promotional operations abroad in partnership with Monaco for Finance (AMAF*) are also on the agenda including to London, Vaduz and Zurich.
In Monaco, two renowned economists, Jean-Pierre Petit, (Cahiers Verts de l’Économie) and Ludovic Subran (Euler Hermes /Allianz) will again distil their knowledge in talks scheduled for 13th September and 15th October respectively.
Finally, the 8th Monaco-Matin Eco Club Awards recognise remarkable entrepreneurs in the Principality on 12th November.
The Executive Director General also outlined the main avenues of action in 2020 with 12 destinations either scheduled or being evaluated.
More than 200 people including personalities from sport, business, politics, local authorities and education have attended the Monaco Sport Academy’s first event ‘Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body’, held 14th June at the Yacht Club of Monaco.
It was under the presidency of HSH Prince Albert II, alongside YCM General Secretary Bernard d’Alessandri and the man behind the project, YCM board member Philippe Ghanem, that the Monaco Sport Academy was launched in December 2018 at the YCM Awards.
“We need to give these young athletes a hand to take them to the highest level,” said Philippe Ghanem.
Compered by former international French footballer David Ginola, the event was an opportunity to present the project to an informed public of high profile personalities.
“For talented young people, turning your passion into your career is one of the best things in the world that could happen,” said Mr Ginola.
Sport and its associated values were top of the agenda in a day that started on the water with demonstrations by the Academy’s first intake in their various disciplines.
At the same time as they were putting on a show in the bay of Monaco, the front-runners in the 67th Rolex Giraglia race were crossing the finish line. It is the second time the Principality has hosted the end of this legendary offshore race, an amazing setting for guests to see for themselves the potential of the young Monegasque athletes.
The afternoon was dedicated to workshops run by men and women who have reached the top of their game. Silvio Arrivabene, involved in numerous editions of the America’s Cup, and Yohann Taberlet, French Paralympic skier, Team World Champion and bronze in the super-combined, were among those taking part in the first session ‘Success stories from athletes competing at the highest level and their training centre history’.
“Having a structure like the MSA is fantastic, as it is the future of sailing,” said Silvio Arrivabene.
Others who added their vision were Maxime Nocher, 11-time kiteboarding World Champion, and Claire Tétard, member of France’s national sailing team. An engineer at Thalès, Claire is one of those champions who has managed to pursue success in sport at the same time as carving out a career: “One of the keys to success is knowing the objectives, prioritising them and working out how to attain them.”
Prince Albert attended the event with more than 200 high profile personalities
After the break, ‘Anticipation, perseverance, investment, frustrations, failures, entourage influence: the importance of mental as well as physical strength to win medals’ was the focus for the second session. Stefano Tirelli, mental coach behind the Complementary Sport Techniques method and who has worked with many well-known teams and individual athletes, opened the debate.
His opinions were shared by Lisa Mashal, another mental coach with a different approach based on neuro-hypnotic relaxation to re-programme the mind in a positive way.
The afternoon ended with a workshop entitled ‘The Sport Academy – a tool for success by encouraging transmission of a universal language focused on excellence’. Hülya Biren kicked off by highlighting the link between sporting and academic success at school.
“This aspect of an athlete’s life is essential,” said Ravy Truchot, founder of the Paris Saint Germain Academy Florida and the man behind the first International Centre of European Football.
The Monaco Sport Academy was keen to emphasise the ongoing year-on-year investment required to lead future generations towards a committed and active life, where they draw on all their resources attained from the values that top-level sport brings.
“It is important to achieve your goals, but the most important thing is the journey as a whole that we make, for it is that which makes the man,” concluded Yohann Taberlet.
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