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 è nata e cresciuta a Bologna, Italia. Ha ottenuto la laurea in giurisprudenza nel 1999 all' Università di Bologna, Alma Mater Studiorum. L'avv. Menarini ha inoltre ottenuto un Certificato in Proprietà Intellettuale all'University of California San Diego nel giugno del 2004, un Diploma in Diritto Tributario alla Facoltà di Giurisprudenza dell' University of San Diego School of Law nel 2007 ed un  Master of Law (LLM) in Fiscalità Internazionale presso la New York University School of Law nel maggio del 2010.  L'avv. Menarini è ammesso alla pratica come avvocato in Italia dal 2003 e negli Stati Uniti (California) dal 2006.