About Us

A new vision for business relations between Europe and the United States.

NEWEST is an innovative platform for enhanced EU-US understanding and business actions. A pragmatic conduit to foster information, growth and education, it is an actor of positive change leveraging the business world to inspire policy makers.

Four intertwined programs that address the needs that are emerging from a changed societal context where the influence and competence among institutions, corporations, media and NGOs have structurally changed.

The business world has an opportunity to lead.

Team

Fernando Napolitano

President & CEO

Fernando joined Booz Allen Hamilton in 1990 becoming Senior Vice President, Italy’s managing director and member of the European management team. He specialized in telecom and energy industries. He served as indipendent member of the board of directors of Enel S.p.A., Mediaset S.p.A., CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research Center), AMRI, Albany, New York. Previously he worked for Procter & Gamble Marketing division in Rome and Laben, a Leonardo company. He graduated with honors in Economy from Federico II University in Naples, Italy, MSM from Brooklyn Poly (now NYU), AMP from Harvard Business School.

Martin Brannigan

Executive Vice President, Media Development

Martin has worked for Sky Italia since 2008 starting as Head of Broadcast Operations. Under his leadership Sky Italia became the first fully digitized broadcaster within NEWS Corp. group. Martin has gained one of the most extraordinary experiences in the world of media covering different roles between strategy / innovation (such as Executive Producer for the London Olympics in 2012), production and customer care for the various Sky platforms.
He earned his bachelor’s degree at Trinity College, Dublin and his MBA from LUISS University, Rome.

Pimm Fox

Editor-in-Chief

Pimm joined Bloomberg in 2006. During his career at Bloomberg, Pimm has interviewed numerous business chiefs and investment gurus including Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett. After overseeing financial services coverage for the Dow Jones News Service in London. He also served as a guest commentator for CNBC and the BBC and has written for Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Institutional Investor, Newsweek and The New York Times. Prior to joining Dow Jones, Fox held roles as the director of the Charles Schwab ‘Smart Investor’ Web site, West Coast bureau chief for Computerworld magazine. He earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia College, Columbia University. He served in the US Navy and penned the “hometown news” while serving.