Andrea Pignataro

Chief Executive Officer, ION Group

Role: Fellow

Site: CDL-Milan

Stream: Manufacturing

Andrea Pignataro is an Italian entrepreneur and mathematician, founder and CEO of the ION Group, a British conglomerate specializing in financial software and data analytics. He graduated in economics from the University of Bologna and earned a PhD in mathematics from Imperial College London. Pignataro started his career as a trader at Salomon Brothers in New York before founding ION in 1997, which went on to acquire major companies in banking software and data services with revenues of over $4 billion and 13,000 employees.