Journalist publicist

Donata comes from a family of Italian gelato makers who started their business in Vienna over a century ago. After her university studies, she got her professional training and learned her art through apprenticeship in the family gelato parlours in Venice and Trieste. Due to her knowledge of several languages, she has been able to carry out feasibility studies resulting in the opening of a large number of successful small gelato businesses, for third parties, all over the world. In 1985 she launched Italian gelato in Japan and then in Singapore, together with the Japanese company Takashimaya, with which she still collaborates today. In 2000, she obtained the European certificate "Master teacher of gelato making", under the terms of UNI CEI EN45013/90.