Mark V. Santo, founder of MVS Counsel, is an accomplished senior executive with extensive international business, law, finance and managerial experience. Mark began his international legal career following his graduation from Georgetown University Law Center with a post graduate law degree in International and Comparative Law. Over a twenty year career in the international business field, and travelling the world many times over, Mark has acquired an extensive network of international associates and colleagues at the highest levels of law, business, academia, and world affairs.

Early in his career, Mark joined the Finmeccanica Group of Rome, Italy. (www.finmeccanica.it). Finmeccanica is one of the world’s largest aerospace groups engaged in the development, design and manufacture of aircraft, helicopters, satellites, missile systems and other equipment for the defense, aeronautics, transportation, helicopter, energy, space, information technology and microelectronic industries.

Elettra Menarini was born and raised in Bologna, Italy. She graduated from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna receiving her Italian law degree (Laurea in Giurisprudenza) in 1999.  Ms. Menarini obtained a Certificate in Intellectual Property law from the University of California San Diego in June 2004, a Diploma in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2007 and an LLM in International Taxation at the University of New York in  May 2010. Ms. Menarini is admitted to practice law in Italy and in California.