Marina has a degree in Food Preparation Sciences. She is currently the Quality Manager at the Oleificio Pietro Coricelli SpA.

Marina deals with quality certifications, contacts with customers and consumers. It also deals with the surveillance of the quality of products and processes, the control of incoming oils from a sensorial point of view.

She was also Head of Quality Assurance at Carapelli Firenze and Quality Manager of Agnesi Spa for the production of pasta in the Danone group.

Marina has been an ONAOO Professional Taster since 2001. Marina was the winner in 2015 of “THE GREAT CHALLENGE – THE WORLDWIDE OLIVE OIL TASTERS’ CHALLENGE” at the Milan EXPO.

She regularly attends refresher courses organized by ONAOO of which she has also become a member of the Council in 2019.

A degree in Economics and Banking, a Masters in Family Mediation, 20 years of work in a banking institution were not enough to forget his ambitions which prominently pushed him to start a new life path in 2016.

His origins were firmly planted in the family olive grove of upper Tuscia (Viterbo area, in general upper Lazio).

Since he was a child, that place represented entertainment, celebration and conviviality in the moments of harvesting and producing oil. Over the years, he began a new adventure with the aim to emulating his Etruscan ancestors, the first true ambassadors of the culture of outstanding quality.

He followed his training mainly through the big family of ONAOO and in March 2022 he obtained the certificate as Professional Taster.

He has been living in Bavaria for three years, where he conducts an activity both of consulting to specialized retailers and restaurateurs and of importing and selling of high quality extra virgin olive oils.

Hilda is a Certified Professional Olive Oil Taster since 2017 and Distributor of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. She is a passionate home cook and baker! She shares lots of ways to cook and bake with Extra Virgin Olive Oil on her website and on YouTube at “I Want to Cook That”.

From 1988 to 1993 Sandro worked as a Buyer for “Despar Ceda Srl”.

From 1993 to 1999 he worked as Category Manager for “Reggiana Alimentari”. Since 1999 he has been Category Manager for “NORDICONAD”.

From 2017 to 2020 he was Director for FIORFIORE CASH & CARRY Srl. From 2021 to 2022, he is Category Manager for CURACASA; from August 2022, he is the contact person for CONAD NORDOVEST Sales Management with the Localism Project.

Sandro has also been an ONAOO Professional Taster since 2012.