Davide Oldani was born in Milan in 1967. Because of an accident, he left his football career and he began to get closer to the food world. He worked and studied side by side the most important chefs, like Gualtiero Marchesi, Albert Roux, Alain Ducasse e Pierre Hermé. In 2003, he opened his restaurant called “D’O” and, a year later, the top restaurant guides include him among the greatest Italian chefs. In 2008, he received the Ambrogino d’Oro, the maximum award given by the City of Milan. He gave lessons in the Business School HEC of Paris (école des Hautes Etudes Commerciales de Paris) and in the Harvard Business School of Boston about his experience as businessman in the restaurant field. He was nominated as Ambassador EXPO 2015 with the saffron as ingredient representative. Davide Orlani collaborates with the monthly magazine La Cucina Italiana, he writes on the kitchen and sport column of the weekly Sport Week and on the IoDonna blog Chiacchierando con Gusto. Thanks to the daily observation of the costumes in his restaurant, he was able to create objects with a “pop” design, that is simple, functional and elegant; his most important collaborations is with KnIndustrie with the plates collection Assiette D’O. Chef Davide Oldani aspires to gain the food pleasure of everyone using high-quality ingredients in a simple way.