Giovanni de Manzoni is Full Professor of General Surgery, Director of the Division of General and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery at Borgo Trento University Hospital of Verona, and Chief of the Department of Surgical Sciences, Dentistry, Gynecology, and Pediatrics at the University of Verona, Italy. He is former President of the International Gastric Cancer Association and a current member of the Italian Society of Surgery and the International Society of Esophageal Diseases. Since 2015, he has been Editor in Chief of “Gastric Cancer”, the official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association. Professor de Manzoni is also a founding member and coordinator of GIRCG (Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer). He is the author of five books on gastric cancer and nearly 300 scientific articles. Franco Roviello is Full Professor of General Surgery, Director of the Division of General and Oncologic Surgery at Policlinico Santa Maria alle Scotte Hospital Siena, University of Siena, and Head of the Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Program of the University of Siena. Board Member of the International Gastric Cancer Association, President Elect of the Italian Society of Surgical Oncology (SICO), and member of the Italian Society of Surgery. Since 2012 he has been Associate Editor for upper gastrointestinal surgery of the European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO). Together with Professor de Manzoni, he is a founding member and coordinator of GIRCG (Italian Research Group for Gastric Cancer). He is the author of 331 papers on surgical oncology.