Filippo Sugar

In September 2011, Sugar spearheaded the Andrea Bocelli One Night in Central Park a historic concert event attended by over 70,000 people that yielded an album and television special.

In 2015, he developed the international format for Orchestras with La Dolce Vita: The Music of Italian Cinema which saw its worldwide premiere featuring The New York Philharmonic.

Filippo rose to chairman in 2015 leading efforts to create a society with the 100% membership basis controls by authors and publishers and re-launching SIAE through improved optimization and efficiencies by providing further rigor around process and transparency coupled with technological innovation.

These directives consolidated copyright laws at both the domestic and European level, in the process, making SIAE competitive with other collection agencies.

During his tenure with SIAE, Filippo also dedicated time to nurturing emerging talent through a variety of special projects, achieving important results, not only in terms of business, but also in simplifying systems and procedures for authors, artists and all music users which included Italia Creativa, a study conducted by Ernst & Young, that provides a picture of the economy of cultural and Creative Industry as driving factors of economic growth and development.