Our teams

Hélène Molinari, founder of SUMus

Hélène Molinari is an engineer by training and joined the Axa Group. She participated in the creation of the asset management subsidiary Axa Asset Managers. She took over the marketing and e-business department and then joined the Management Committee as Global Brand and Communication Director. She joins Laurence Parisot at MEDEF as Deputy Managing Director, member of the Executive Board. In 2012, she became a founding member of the Woman of Influence Award. Then in 2013, she joined several boards of directors and was also a founding member of Asia Now, a contemporary Asian art fair. She is involved in many associations: “Nos Quartiers ont des talents”, “Undertake to Learn”, “Everybody sings against cancer”. In May 2020, she founded SUMus and became its president.

Our teams are multicultural.

1. The team of co-founders

2. The scientific committee, called “Committee of Wise Men”

In September 2022, the governance of Sumus will be strengthened by the creation of a “Comité des Sages” composed of international personalities recognized in their fields of expertise, who will support Sumus in its strategy of developing a new paradigm in harmony with the Living in Venice

It consists of the following personalities:

• Ervin Laszlo, founding president of the Budapest club – honorary president of the SUMus committee of elders
• Nicolas Hazard , founding president of the management company INCO, a pioneer in impact funds, which recently submitted a report to the European Commission on how to develop a new, more inclusive and more sustainable economy in Europe.
• Laura Guliano , research director at the oceanographic center of Monaco, specialized in marine biomimicry.
• Sébastien Lilli , co-founding director of INRESTV and INEXPLORÉ magazine who, for more than 7 years, has been producing fascinating and unpublished reports with his team on ancestral wisdom, alternative medicine, neuroscience, quantum physics, unexplained phenomena at the border of science and consciousness.
• Bénédicte Manier , journalist and author of books on societal changes, specialist in citizen initiatives.
• Alexandra Mitsotaki , president of the “World Human Forum” and member of the steering committee of the New European Bauhaus, which aims to develop a new European civilization through pilot cities.
• Sneška Quaedvlieg – Mihailović , Secretary General of Europa Nostra, a European association dedicated to promoting European cultural heritage.
• Roger Serre , founding president of the international educational group IGS whose motto has always been to develop human potential.
• Umberto Vattani , president of the International University of San Servolo who for 25 years has been working on planetary subjects with students from 4 continents in connection with 20 universities around the world and their research centers.

3. The Venetian team

4. The SUMus WoMen team

5. The SUMus Acqua team

Our community of Sumusiens and Sumusiennes grows every day

Sumus is a citizens' initiative open to all volunteers who share our vision, our values ​​and who are ready to collaborate to bring about a more sustainable, joyful and caring society. Collective intelligence, the pooling of talents, resources and innovative projects serving the common good are the key to the future.