TOP 100
FinTech Leaders and Influencers in Italy
Le persone che devi assolutamente seguire per essere aggiornato sull'innovazione in ambito finanziario.
Paolo Sironi
Global Research Leader Banking and Financial Markets
IBM Institute for Business Value
Paolo is one of the most respected voices in the FinTech industry globally, providing business expertise and strategic thinking to a network of executives among financial institutions, startups and regulators. He is Global Research Leader in Banking and Financial Markets at IBM Institute for Business Value.
Ignazio Rocco di Torrepadula
Founder & CEO
Credimi
30 years in Financial Services, with a bias for innovation and a special attraction for technology. Fintech entrepreneur. Lover of Europe and of my country, Italy.
Francesco Simoneschi
Founder
TrueLayer
Francesco Simoneschi is co-Founder and CEO of fintech development platform TrueLayer. He has significant experience in tech development, venture capitalism and financial technology. Francesco has founded, managed and grown a number of successful tech companies in the US and UK.
Pietro Sella
CEO
Sella Group
Currently leading Sella, the Italian banking group, where I started as a cashier in 1994.
Sella family’s tradition of innovation dates back to 1570, when our first textile company was founded, and passed through the first industrial revolution with the establishment of the bank in 1886.
Demetrio Migliorati
Director | Innovation
Mediolanum
Demetrio is passionate about innovation, change, startups, technologies, paradigms, paradoxes, languages, cultures and diversity. He built his experience starting from the information technology industry, converting to finance/insurance in one of the most dynamic and complex Italian banking and insurance groups.
Oscar di Montigny
Chief Innovability & Value Strategy Officer
Banca Mediolanum
Expert in Innovative Marketing, Relational Communications and Corporate Education.
Creator of the Economy 0.0 principles which combine business and management with philosophy, art and science.
Passionate and motivating public speaker often invited to participate in many national and international forums and events.
Salvatore Borgese
General Manager
Mooney
General Manager Commercial & Banking Services per Mooney da gennaio 2020.
In precedenza dal 2017 è stato Direttore Generale di Banca 5 (Gruppo Intesa Sanpaolo). Nel 2012, Borgese fa il suo ingresso in ICBPI (oggi Nexi) in qualità di Direttore Payment Services e nello stesso periodo assume le cariche di membro del board in EPC (European Payments Council), ECC (European Clearing Cooperative), Bancomat, CBI e CIPA.
Roberto Ferrari
Founder & CEO
Design Italy
Forward thinker | Founder, Enterpreneur and senior executive | Digital transformation maker and advisor| Top marketer and FinTech leader | Business innovator | Business Growth, Scale-up and turn-around maker | Startups advisor, angel | Writer I Speaker
Doris Messina
Chief DigitaTrasformation Officer
Banca Sella
I deal with innovation since 1996 and I am first mover in digital banking services.
Recently, I was co-founder in Hype, the Italian Challenger Bank, Fintech District, the first Italian fintech community and the first italian Open Banking API platform.
Antonio Lafiosca
Head of Marketing and Operations
BorsadelCredito.it
I'm working in Accenture since 2008 and I have taken part in several business consulting projects including finance, post trading, accounting, and organizational structures with lead Italian banking group.
Fabrizio Villani
CoFounder & Head of Growth
Fintastico
Fintastico is the place where to discover the most innovative financial services.
Fintastico curates a selection of fintech services and fintech news to address the financial needs of consumers, retailers, enterprises and financial institutions.
Maurizio Pimpinella
Presidente
Associazione Prestatori Servizi di Pagamento
Currently Maurizio Pimpinella is the President of the Italian Association of Payment Institutions and E-Money Operators (A.P.S.P.) and Professor under contract to the Department of Economics and Business Organization, Università degli studi Internazionali di Roma UNINT on the couse "Electronic money"
Corrado Passera
Founder & CEO
illimity
Comasco di una famiglia di imprenditori, dopo la laurea in Economia Aziendale alla Bocconi, l'MBA conseguito alla Wharton School di Philadelphia e i primi anni professionali in McKinsey, ho improntato il mio percorso professionale sulla sfida per l'innovazione: da Olivetti ad illimity, passando per Poste, Intesa Sanpaolo, l’incarico di Governo.
Giovanni Cucchiarato
Group General Counsel
Dedalus Group
Skilled FinTech lawyer with extensive expertise in alternative financing instruments and regulatory aspects concerning, among others, investment crowdfunding and applications of the blockchain technology in the financial markets.
Camilla Cionini Visani
Direttore Generale
ItaliaFintech
Experienced senior manager with a wide range of skills: Corporate finance, internationalisation, International Relations and Public Affairs, Governance. Currently General Director of ItalianFintech, the Italian Fintech Association.
Paolo Galvani
Co-Founder and Chairman
Moneyfarm
Investment Banking (Markets) and Asset Managment broad expertise. Now focused on entrepreneurial initiatives focused on finance and technology.
Alessia Maccaferri
Giornalista
Nòva24 Il Sole 24 Ore
È giornalista caposervizio nella redazione di Nòva 24 del Sole 24 Ore. Appassionata di innovazione sociale, impact investing, filantropia, beni comuni.
Roberto Nicastro
Chairman
AideXa
Very keenly involved in a few Fintech initiatives, convinced that Fintech is deeply changing banking, passionate for Small Business Banking. Just founded together with Federico Sforza and invested into #Aidexa.
Giovanni Buono
Co-founder
Fundsfy
I am a 15+ years experienced professional with an holistic business culture developed mainly within an international environment and several industries
Marco Bazzo
Amministratore canale Telegram
MyDigitalFin
l mondo è sempre più digitale e non voglio rimanere indietro... per questo cerco di rimanere sempre aggiornato!
Non ho paura del cambiamento, lo voglio affrontare con consapevolezza!
Antonio Chiarello
Owner & Founder
ClubDealOnline.com
A high-integrity, energetic leader, able to envision and create successful outcomes in complex situations.
An effective communicator, who thrives under pressure and change.
Eloisa Marchesoni
Co-founder
Blackchain Consulting
Eloisa Marchesoni is better known as the youngest consultant in the Blockchain and A.I. sector, as well as influential author of articles for the major national and international newspapers.
Giovanni Iozzia
Journalist, Editorial Advisor and Content Strategist
EconomyUp, Forbes Italia
Experienced Editor In Chief with a demonstrated history of working in the publishing industry. Skilled in News Writing, Advertising, Editing, Media Relations, and Journalism. Strong media and communication professional with a Sociology focused in Theory and Technics of Mass Communications from Rome University.
Marcello Ascani
Content creator, Youtuber
Marcello Ascani
Marcello Ascani, nato nel 1997 a Roma e diplomato al liceo artistico di Via Ripetta, dichiara nella sua bio di Instagram di “essere un buon esempio per i vostri figli”.
Matteo Masserdotti
CEO & Founder
Two Hundred
Entrepreneur and hard worker.
Passionate about IoT, sharing economy, crowd economy, fintech.
Federico Mattei
Innovation & Technical Manager
IBM
Mobile & Social Innovation Architect, Business Development, Digital Transformation Strategy.
Passionate about Fintech, Gamification and Quantum Computing.
Paolo Zanni
COO
Plick
I have a strong technical background (10 years experience in ICT field) mixed with business skills acquired on the job and attending courses.
Edoardo Monaco
Co-Founder & CEO
Axieme
After completing international professional experiences in consulting, investment banking and marketing for consumer goods I decided to specialize in the insurance industry.
Laura Grassi
Head of Fintech & Insurtech Observatory
Politecnico di Milano
Laura Grassi, PhD is Assistant Professor of Investment Banking at Politecnico di Milano and Vice-Director of the International MBA at MIP Graduate School of Business.
Gaetano Giannetto
Founder
Epipoli SpA
Gaetano Giannetto, international retail expert, forerunner and visionary of mega market trends, embedded his commitment to innovation in Epipoli.
Carlo Giugovaz
CEO
Supernovae Labs
My company offer to support Solution Providers & Startups with innovative ideas and technologies in dealing with Banks & Insurance that want succeed in the new Open Banking world.
Stefano Bison
Group Head of Business Development & Partnerships
Generali
As an ex-management consultant and, previously, investment banker in the FIG space, I am a passionate business professional now giving his contribution to innovate and transform Generali Group's business, especially through partnerships with innovative companies.
Umberto Piattelli
Partner
Osborne Clarke
I have 25 year experience in working with international law firms.
I gained a significant expertise in assisting clients in corporate transactions, including cross border M&A, private Equity, capital market transactions, financial service regulation, banking, alternative finance and payments.
Thomas Iacchetti
CEO & Innovation consultant
Fleap.io - Sandbox Srl
SandBox è la prima piattaforma che si basa su Hyperledger Blockchain solution per l’erogazione e lo scambio di token digitali che rappresentano asset finanziari di difficile liquidabilità, mobili o immobili.
Antonio Sorrentino
CEO & Co-Founder
Domec SpA
I have a very strong experience in new businesses and new markets due to my long period spent in companies such as Seat Pagine Gialle (one of the most innovative italian companies early 2000), Lottomatica Group (now Gtech, serving as #1 in gambling in many countries in the world) and Euronet Worldwide Inc. (nasdaq EEFT, one of the biggest financial services providers in the world).
Carlo Alberto Minasi
Chief Innovation Officer & Growth Drivers Leader
EY
Chief Innovation Officer at EY
Innovator, Game Changer and Strategy Consultant.
Founder of Pantry Trainer
International life experience in United States, Africa and many countries in Europe.
Emanuela Campari Bernacchi
Partner - Head of the Structured Finance Department
Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners
Emanuela Campari Bernacchi si occupa di operazioni di diritto bancario, di derivati e di finanza strutturata. E’ socia del dipartimento di Diritto Bancario e Finance di Gattai, Minoli, Agostinelli & Partners ed è la responsabile del Dipartimento di Finanza Strutturata dello Studio.
Sara Noggler
CEO
Polyhedra
Public Affairs and PR Consultant Blockchain and FinTech.
In a digital world in which everyone can be a communicator, communication has become a key tool for making a business successful.
Alessandro Collesano
CFO
Fondazione ENEA Tech
CFO with over 20 years’ experience leading overall financial operations: annual and long-term financial planning, forecasting, corporate and business unit financial insights and analytics, management accounting, financial analysis, investment project evaluation, internal and regulatory reporting, accounting operations, ERP implementation, SOX operations, M&A.
Federico Feroldi
CTO
pagoPA
Highly-experienced hands-on CTO and board level executive with international exposure living and working in Italy, UK, USA and Germany.
Pietro Azzara
Presidente
Italia4Blockchain
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Business Process, Negotiation, Sales Management, Cloud , Marketing e Comunication, Blockchain.
Fabio Bolognini
Co-Founder
Workinvoice
Finance, fintech, corporate banking, advisory, turnaround plans, commercial banking credit process, networking B2B
Silvia Bossio
Director
The Timist
Silvia Bossio (Jones for friends) initially studied in the field of tourism that led her to learn about the road of technology and Bitcoin. She approached this sector a few years ago and continues to study while being a community manager and voice for Bitcoin locally and globally.
Claudio Cubito
Co-Founder & CEO
GrowishPay
Strategic thinker with unremitting energy and resilience; strong negotiating and influencing capabilities; demonstrated leadership and relationship building skills. Focus on innovation.
Annamaria Lusardi
University Professor of Economics and Accountancy
The George Washington University
Annamaria Lusardi is University Professor of Economics and Accountancy at the George Washington University School of Business (GWSB). Moreover, she is the founder and academic director of GWSB’s Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center.
Massimo Chiriatti
CTO Blockchain & Digital Currencies - University Programs Leader
IBM
Technical Sales Manager with an extensive background in blockchain and digital economy, with a passion for solving complex IT challenges combined with exceptional communication skills at executive levels.
Giuseppe Brandaleone
Direzione Commericale
Arca Fondi SGR
Experienced Senior Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the Financial Services industry (Banking, Asset Management and Fintech).
Bruno Reggiani
Country Manager Italy
Penta
8+ years experience with startups on digital, mobile app and ecommerce, 5 years in fintech. Track record on launching new product on the market starting from scratch, building and setting up teams between marketing, design and product.
Marco Berini
General Manager / AD
finleap connect Italy
finleap connect addresses the fragmented open banking landscape with a “full-stack” platform.
Carlo Gualandri
CEO
Soldo
Soldo is a European FinTech startup, based in London, Rome, Milan and Dublin. Our international team has significant experience in payment services and unparalleled credentials in developing transactional systems and mobile products.
Alberto Dalmasso
Founder & CEO
Satispay
A “bank account enabled” mobile payment platform that is independent from debit and credit card networks. The consumer app is available for anybody with a bank account, while merchants both online and offline can accept payments using any kind of device and POS.
Matteo Carbone
Non-Executive Director
Net Insurance
I ideated and I’m managing an international insurance think tank focused In IoT Insurance.
I’m internationally recognized as an insurance industry strategist with a specialization on innovation.
Giancarlo Giudici
Full Professor
Politecnico di Milano
Docente di 'Corporate Finance' (LM Management Engineering) e 'Economia e Organizzazione Aziendale (LP Ing. della Produzione Industriale, campus di Lecco). Direttore scientifico dell'Osservatorio Minibond e dell'Osservatorio Crowdinvesting della School of Management
Matteo Rizzi
Co-Founder
FTS GROUP
Matteo has been actively engaged in the FinTech space for over 20 years and has deep connections amongst global banks executives, startups and investors. He knows how to bridge traditional banking with new or disruptive technologies, because he understands both.
Pietro Michelangeli
Youtuber
Pietro Michelangeli
Mi chiamo Pietro e il mio mondo è la finanza personale.
Guadagnare, spendere, risparmiare ma soprattutto investire: ciò che facciamo ogni giorno rientra in queste 4 azioni.
David Casalini
COO
Italian Minister of Innovation Technology and Digitalization
Willing to aim high and grow our country to its full potential
Riccardo Zanetti
Founder & CEO
Revives
I love challenges and I always face them with a creative spirit without brakes or prejudices and a vision that goes beyond the single project to find a win-win solution for every people involved every time!
Giacomo Zucco
Bitcoin Educator/Consultant/Researcher
BCademy
Sono milanese, classe 1983. Dopo la maturità classica mi sono laureato in Fisica all’Università degli Studi di Milano. Nel maggio 2012 ho lasciato la multinazionale Accenture, presso la quale ho lavorato per quattro anni in qualità di Technology Consultant, per diventare collaboratore e socio di minoranza di una giovanissima società attiva nell’ambito delle tecnologie informatiche.
Alex Romano Milani
Managing Director
Kaleyra
Experienced General Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong sales professional skilled in Marketing Management, Sales, Mobile Communications, and Go-to-market Strategy.
Filippo Maria Renga
Research Director - Fintech & Insurtech Observatory
Osservatori Digital Innovation
It is the reference point for Italy’s entire financial ecosystem (banks, insurances, management companies, service providers, start-ups, institutions, etc.) to ensure that the disruptive changes that digital innovations are bringing to the financial world are managed in the best possible way.
Alessandro Longoni
Head
Fintech District
International business development professional currently developing the Italian Fintech ecosystem in Italy and Europe @Fintech District. Involved from the early stages of the career in the most innovative areas in the digital world.
Benedetta Arese Lucini
CEO
Oval
Tech entrepreneur @OvalMoney, @Uber and @Zalora. Dreamer, Doer, and Daughter of an amazing entrepreneur! I started loving tech before I even knew it would shape my life!
Christian Miccoli
Co-Founder
Conio
Pioniere dell’online banking in Italia, dopo l’esperienza in McKinsey, dove ha promosso il progetto di una banca diretta, proseguito poi in Rasbank, diventa Amministratore delegato di Ing Direct e dal 2008 Amministratore delegato di Che Banca!, per poi diventarne il presidente qualche anno più tardi. Nel 2015 fonda Conio insieme a Vincenzo Di Nicola.
Matteo Concas
Head of Global Digital Banking Solutions
Enel X
Fintech manager and entrepreneur with more than 10 years of experience in financial services, Matteo is Head of Global Digital Banking Solutions at Enel X where he orchestrates the development of Enel X Financial ecosystem and the launch of services in the retail and corporate market.
Edoardo Benedetto
Co-Founder & CDO
Oval
User Experience and Product Designer.
My professional focus is on defining the digital strategy and designing with the users the experience of digital products and services.
Marie Johansson
Country Manager Italy
Tink
A partire dal 5 dicembre 2019 Marie Johansson è country manager per l’Italia della società Tink, piattaforma svedese di Open Banking che opera nella creazione di servizi digitali. La nomina segue l’ingresso in Italia dell’azienda, con l’apertura di un headquarter a Milano.
Giovanpaolo Arioldi
Co-Founder & General Manager
Opstart
Co-Founder e Direttore commerciale Opstart srl.
Co-Founder e Vicepresidente AssoFinTech (Associazione Italiana per il Fintech e l'Insurtech)
Silvia Attanasio
Head of Innovation
ABI
R&D in banking industry
Now in charge of the Spunta project, a sector level application of DLT.
Specialties: Innovation, Operations, Organization and Business Process Management, Back Office, Business Continuity, Crisis Management, Contact Centers... in the banking sector.
Marta Ghiglioni
Innovation & Fintech Expert
SingularityU Faculty
Among 15 most influent Italian women in Innovation in 2017 - Digitalic -
30 most influential Fintech professionals in Italy 2018 - Medici -
Law, Technology and Business management.
Serena Torielli
Co-Founder & CEO
Virtual B Spa
"I believe in numbers, data, and real human emotions and I have been lucky enough to put them together in my journey in fintech". I left the traditional investment business in 2009, to found a fintech company called Virtual B, and I love my job.
Simone Marzola
CTO
Oval
Tech Strategist & Software Architect with a strong background in open source and emerging technologies.
Expert in design, agile planning and development of high performance and high concurrency web applications.
Paola Papanicolau
Executive Director - Group Head of Innovation
Intesa Sanpaolo
Paola Papanicolaou, holds a degree in economics. She is very experienced in Wealth Management, Private Banking, Project Management and Innovation. She has worked in Citibank Greece, in Monte dei Paschi di Siena, in Generali Group, ATKearney and for different Olympic Games Committees.
Giulia Adonopoulus
Content Specialist
Money.it
Calabrese trapiantata a Roma, coordina le sezioni Attualità e Fintech su Money.it e si occupa soprattutto di startup, finanza alternativa e trasformazione digitale nei servizi bancari e finanziari.
Pasquale Orlando
CEO & Co-founder
Deus Technology
Experienced Head Of Strategic Marketing with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry.
Luca Gualtieri
Financial journalist
MF - Milano Finanza
Da 11 anni redattore presso il quotidiano economico-finanziario MF-Milano Finanza. Esperienza nel campo digitale come produttore di contenuti per siti web, blog e social media.
Roberto Garavaglia
Senior Management Consultant
Innovative Payments Strategy Advisor
Senior Advisor specialized in helping Organizations (Companies, Banks, Payment Institutions, EMIs) innovate and build new business streams in the Digital Payments industry and blockchain field.
In 2014 I was among the first in Italy to deal with blockchain projects in the finance sector.
Alessandro Ninfole
Managing Director
C2FO
Managing Director at C2FO || Business Development Italy || Working Capital Solutions || FinTech 250 CBI
Marco Bellezza
AD
Infratel Italia
Marco Bellezza - avvocato, dottore di ricerca in diritto privato e nuove tecnologie, già Consigliere giuridico per le comunicazioni e l’innovazione del Ministro dello Sviluppo Economico Stefano Patuanelli e coordinatore della presidenza italiana della European Blockchain Partnership. E’ stato consigliere giuridico per il Vice Presidente del Consiglio Luigi Di Maio.
Salvatore Grisanti
Project Manager
Banca Sella
I’m currently a Project Manager at Banca Sella, one of the most important European banking innovation “ecosystems”. I’m engaged in Open Banking projects for Wealth and Asset Management.
Andrea Lapomarda
Associate Partner
EY
Experienced consultant focused on regulatory compliance for the banking sector, he is striving to foster innovation leveraging on RegTech. He is the co-author of the RegTech Top21 Report and Italy Financial Services RegTech Lead for EY
Giuseppe Donvito
Partner
P101
Senior executive and Investment professional focused on TMT, Technology (Software, SaaS, FinTech, proptech, Artificial Intelligence, Health, Telecom, Mobile, Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, IoT, IoE, Digital, Enterprise Software). Innovation based projects.
Piercarlo Gera
CEO
Gera & Partners
Board / Advisory Board experience
Trusted Advisor, with deep experience in Digital Strategy and Digital Transformation , serving in last 30+ years Financial Services leaders, in revenue growth, customer engagement uplift and cost reduction programs.
Valentina Magri
Web Editor specialized in business and finance
EdiBeez
I have graduated in Management from Bocconi University. During my studies, I have worked for Radio Bocconi, Tra i Leoni, Campus, Real World Magazine, Saipem.
Andrea Ferretti
Partner
EY
Partner at EY - Advisory Services with focus on Business Transformation support for Financial Services industry
Luigi Telesca
Co-Founder and CEO
TRAKTI
Trakti Co-Founder and CEO. I care R&D activities about Digital Ecosystems, Distributed Software, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Supply Chain Management, e-Negotiation and Digital Business Models.
Francesco Magagnini
Co-Founder & CEO
Kellify
GenY science-centric entrepreneur @ Kellify.
I deliver hypergrowth at scale: I love building and scaling the executional fire-power to drive business and teams growth.
Marco Crotta
Blockchain Expert & Consultant
Blockchain Caffe
Smart Contract and Dapp Developer (Ethereum, Solidity, IFPS, Web3. j's, Python).
Blockchain Trainer for Companies, Startups, Law enforcement or the simply curious.
Linux System manager and Architecture Designer (RHCE).
Public Speaking black belt.
Federico Sforza
CEO & Co-Founder
AideXa
It’s a combination of fintech and banking skills and an entrepreneurial mindsets that has pushed me to co-found and invest in AideXa, becoming its CEO.