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Sandro Salsano

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Sandro Salsano, businessman and investor at 2015 Davos
Sandro Salsano (born September 25, 1979 in Lecco, Italy) is an Italian self-made entrepreneur, businessman and investor. He is the Chairman of Salsano Family Office [1][2][3] and CEO of Salsano Group. The group has investments in financials, global real estate, luxury, private equity, venture capital and technology. He is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Salsano Shahani Foundation.[4] He is also a founding partner of CF, an investment company with offices in Panama,[5] London (regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority), Madrid, Miami and San Juan. He sits on the Board of a number of companies.[6]

Early life[edit]

Born in Lecco, Italy, he grew up in Southern Italy (Campania) where he was a professional basketball player until he decided to move to Milan to study at Bocconi University.

Education[edit]

Salsano graduated from Bocconi University in Milan with full honors with an MBA Exchange program from the University of San Diego, California, an Executive program from Harvard Business School and a Leadership program from INCAE Business School.[7] He speaks English, Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Russian.

Early Business Ventures[edit]

His first job was at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in London. He later became a shareholder and partner in an investment bank in former Soviet Union, he sold his shares after Goldman Sachs acquired a stake. He co-founded what became one of the largest factoring companies for exporters to Central America and the Caribbean.

Investments[edit]

Salsano Group of Companies[8] comprises over 50 companies with stakes in sectors like transmedia (www.herotainment.com), social media (www.recordsetter.com), smartphone breathalyzer (www.breathometer.com), family locator (www.life360.com), data platform (www.cloudtags.com), e-commerce (www.try.com), social betting (www.youbetme.com), microRNA detection (www.miroculus.com), luxury mobiles (www.savelli-geneve.com), global consumer (www.tpresso.com), blockchain (www.smartcontract.com), parenting tool (www.kidu.com), music (www.zendaya.com), financials (www.cf-im.com), global real estate (hospitality, industrial, residential, commercial, retail, parking, land)

Awards and achievements[edit]

Salsano has been honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014 [9] This honor is bestowed by the World Economic Forum each year to recognize the most distinguished and inspiring leaders under the age of 40. Selection Committee is headed by Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan. Past Young Global Leaders from around the world include Mark Zuckerberg, Founder & CEO of Facebook Inc, Larry Page, Co-Founder & CEO, Google; Sergey Brin, Co-Founder/President, Google, Marissa Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo, Andrew R. Sorkin, Columnist, The New York Times, David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Elon Musk, Chairman, Tesla Motors, Aerin Lauder, SVP, Estée Lauder, Aditya Mittal, Rahul Gandhi, Queen Mathilde of Belgium, Queen of Belgium, Mary Crown Princess of Denmark, Mandla Mandela, member of the Parliament of the South African National Congress, Chelsea Clinton, Wyclef Jean, Steffi Graf, Ian Thorpe and Mia Hamm.[10]
He is often featured on several medias like CNBC,[11] FT, Bloomberg, Forbes, CNN, IlSole24ore, Corriere della Sera.
He was regarded as one of the top 50 business leaders in Latin America under 40 (2014 and 2015).

Philanthropy[edit]

He has donated among others to the William J. Clinton Foundation.,[12] Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, Amfar, Olga Sinclair Foundation, Nuestro Pequenos Hermanos. He set up Salsano Shahani foundation with his wife Johanna Shahani (www.gruposhahani.com) to improve kids education in Panama.[13]
Sandro is the Chairman for Panama of Global Dignity, an independent, non-political organization. Their project is the universal right of every human being to lead a dignified life. The organization was established in 2006 by Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, John Hope Bryant and Pekka Himanen.[14]

Personal life[edit]

Sandro Salsano is an astronaut passenger with Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and he will enter space on board SpaceShipTwo. Other austronauts include Angelina Jolie, Philippe Stark, Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton, Justin Bieber and Leonardo DiCaprio [15][16] He has travelled to more than 100 countries (among those North Korea, Greenland, Tibet, Cuba, Iran, Ukraine, Tanzania)

External links[edit]

References[edit]

  1. Jump up ^ "MUNDO SOCIAL SEPTIEMBRE 2012". Mundosocial.net. Retrieved 2012-11-12.[dead link]
  2. Jump up ^ http://www.salsanofamily.com
  3. Jump up ^ "Alpha Metrix Event Registrant List".[dead link]
  4. Jump up ^ http://www.salsanoshahani.org
  5. Jump up ^ http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000303726
  6. Jump up ^ http://www.cf-im.com
  7. Jump up ^ http://www.incae.edu/en/news/wef-young-global-leaders-trained-in-leadership-for-sustainable-development-at-incae.php
  8. Jump up ^ http://www.salsanogroup.com
  9. Jump up ^ http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/sandro-salsano
  10. Jump up ^ http://www.weforum.org
  11. Jump up ^ http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000303726
  12. Jump up ^ "2009 donors to Clinton foundation". Seattle Times (AP). January 1, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  13. Jump up ^ http://www.salsanoshahani.org
  14. Jump up ^ Bredt engasjement for Dignity Day i Norge (in Norwegian) Aftenposten, 16 October, 2011
  15. Jump up ^ "List of astronaut passengers SpaceshipTwo Virgin Galactic".
  16. Jump up ^ "DiCaprio space trip Virgin Galactic".
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