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In ’94 she married Alfredo, her life partner. Their son Filippo was born soon after, followed by her job at Ahlstrom, a Finnish multinational company. Camilla was born in 2001, and shortly afterwards Monica began her career as an executive, mainly in sales and business development.

This was a time of very frequent travel, first across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, then the Americas and Asia. At Ahlstrom, Monica learned to handle tough issues and intense negotiations with clients of very different sizes and cultures, and to work with managers, colleagues and teams from all over the world. Professionally (and personally) it was an extremely valuable and rewarding experience.

From 2010 to 2016, Monica went through the darkest of her “dark periods”: the loss of her beloved father and a series of organizational upheavals at the company, with strategic decisions she often disagreed with, which in 2016 led her to leave after more than 20 years.

Once again, the strength to bounce back came from her solid personal roots and the support of her family. She returned to the corporate world as a Business Development consultant for Roboplast, a company from Cuneo that has been providing packaging solutions to major international food groups, in Italy and abroad, for over 40 years. Through this experience Monica reconnected with the fascinating world of “food made in Italy”, a market already rich in offerings but with plenty of room to grow, at home and above all abroad. Working in plastic packaging also means constantly testing yourself with cutting-edge solutions that balance different needs: reducing food waste (and therefore preserving food), meeting extremely high hygiene standards (even “more essential” in this pandemic era), and environmental sustainability. These themes, combined with a family tradition of great care for food, guided the aspiring entrepreneur in choosing her business idea.

For her 50th birthday (2019), fully back on her feet, Monica ran the New York Marathon with her son Filippo. Camilla and Alfredo managed to get there to watch and film them at the finish line: they cheered louder than anyone, hugged them, and laughed at Monica’s tears before the last mile. At 50 (all in November, marathon and birthday), Monica realized she was ready to take on a new challenge.

When Monica told her three “dinner companions” about it, they not only welcomed the project enthusiastically but immediately asked to be part of it: and so PlinTO and the “PlinTO team” were born.

After finishing high school with excellent grades, Claudia decided to move to Italy, where three of her older sisters were already living and working. On arriving in Turin, she spent her first days helping out at the bar run by her sister, but just two weeks later she started working as a housekeeper in Monica’s home.

It was the end of 2008. Claudia was just over 19, spoke no Italian and had never done housework. Monica’s home, on the other hand, was fairly chaotic: an apartment of over 130 m², two children aged 7 and 13 to look after, Monica away on business trips every week, and Alfredo at the office for more than 10 hours a day.

In this setting, with dedication, patience and skill, Claudia quickly learned to speak Italian, to keep the house clean and tidy and, when needed, to cook for the children and sometimes for the adults too.

The working relationship between Claudia and Monica, built on trust, respect and by now real affection, has lasted for over 13 years. Over time Claudia has also proved to be someone who can solve the many small and big problems that come up every day in a household, from a broken appliance to dealing with the neighbors.

Other milestones in Claudia’s life were her marriage to Nico in 2014 and the birth of her wonderful children Eduard (in 2016) and Emanuela (in 2019), who, besides giving meaning to everything, gave Claudia the motivation to take a step forward professionally.

Claudia is now 32, and she was the first to join the PlinTO project without hesitation: “a breath of fresh air after two years of pandemic,” she called it as soon as she heard about it.

In 1998 Elena began her legal traineeship at two different law firms, while also working with a non-profit organization as a legal consultant. During this time she had her first pregnancy, giving birth to her beautiful daughter Elisa, and then, 17 months later, her second, giving birth to little Anna. Although the work paid little and caring for two very young children was exhausting, Elena was satisfied and had not given up on qualifying to practice law.

While preparing for the bar exam, she also took a public exam to qualify as a Law teacher, but after passing it she still decided to pursue a legal career.
Meanwhile, through the non-profit she had worked with, she was contacted by an international adoption agency, where she was hired to provide legal advice to couples hoping to adopt, and she fell in love with this field.
Everything seemed to be going well, but suddenly, just a few days before the bar exam, Elena’s mother suffered a massive stroke.
Among the estate formalities, a guardian had to be appointed for Giorgio, her disabled brother, and it was Elena who took on this role, entrusted to her by her other two siblings, Marco and Paola, who were often away from home.

Elena qualified as a lawyer almost two years later, when she was also hired on a permanent contract by the Associazione Amici di Don Bosco, where she became the legal contact for adoptions in South America. In 2005 Elena became a mother for the third time with the birth of little Chiara and, shortly after, a 50% partner in Giardini d’arte Sas, a company that designs, manages and maintains public and private green spaces. In 2010 the same company, run by her husband, took over Agrisem, a retail business in Turin where Elena worked until 2016, when, having passed a second teaching exam, she gradually left all her other activities and company roles to teach Law and Healthcare Legislation full time.
Teaching is certainly stimulating and full of challenges, and Elena, at a stage of life where she feels fulfilled both professionally and personally, decided on hearing about the PlinTO project to join as a partner, contributing her administrative and legal expertise.

In 1997 she married Gualtiero, who had already been her partner for 12 years.

When the Traumatology department was created in 2002 (a regional experiment to set up a ward dedicated exclusively to trauma), she joined the project with great enthusiasm.
Since then she has specialized in major trauma, remaining the reference person for this area even as the department was reorganized (it is now part of the First Orthopedic Clinic).

In 2004 the family grew with the arrival of Emma, adopted at the age of one.

In 2013, made aware by her husband (a geriatrician) of the issues in treating elderly and frail patients, she worked to create a dedicated care pathway for them: since then a specialized outpatient clinic has been running, where elderly patients are followed for their orthopedic problems and bone metabolism.
Today she heads the trauma area as well as the outpatient clinic for fragility fractures.

In 2017 she began working with the Piedmont Region to create a medical response team for major emergencies, joining the EMT2 field hospital (the only level-two field hospital in Italy). With this fantastic team she has taken part in two European training exercises and, in 2019, an emergency deployment in Mozambique.

She has always traveled the world, a passion she partly shares with Gualtiero and now with Emma too.
She has explored almost all of South America, part of North and Central America and part of Asia. But over the last 20 years she has very often traveled across southern Africa, crisscrossing it by 4×4 and tent.

She has always cooked more out of passion than necessity: she loves cooking for friends and family and often throws parties with lots of guests.
She has always cooked for family lunches, trying to combine traditional dishes with a touch of innovation, perhaps bringing to the table flavors from the countries she has visited. She adores finger food and trying different cuisines, but she believes the best cooking is Italian, home-style cooking.