Team
Long-term experience in financial markets, has navigated through several economical and market cycles
Management
Giancarlo D’Oria - President of the Board
Over 30 year experience in financial markets: 2 years at Prudential Bache Securities as a Eurobonds Sales Executive; 11 years at UBS AG in Lugano, Zurich and London as responsible for UHNWIs and institutional clients; 10 years as a Limited Partner of FIM Advisers LLP, London, an asset management company specializing in alternative investments; 6 years as partner and co-founder of AD Capital Partners SA in Lugano, where he successfully consulted industrial groups on renewable energy projects and institutional investors on alternative strategies. After having joined as a Partner in 2016 Mayfair Financial Services Ltd, a FINMA-regulated third parties distributor to qualified investors in Switzerland, he co-founded with a financial partner in Lugano DeAuria Finance SA in March 2019.
Stefano Pezzoli - Member of the Board
Over 30 years of experience on financial markets. After graduating at the St. Gallen University in Switzerland (lic. oec. HSG) in 1987, he started his professional carrier at UBS Investment Banking Division, where he worked for over 13 years.
He had several management roles in Geneva, Lugano, Zurich, New York and from 1993 to 2000 in Londron, as the responsible for Southern European institutional investors in Equities Risk Management.
He founded in 2000 On finance, an investment boutique active in derivatives and risk management for IAM, family offices and insurance companies.
He is still active as the Managing Partner of On finance. He also served as member of the board of several financial portfolio management companies and of Banca Gesfid in Lugano.
He had several management roles in Geneva, Lugano, Zurich, New York and from 1993 to 2000 in Londron, as the responsible for Southern European institutional investors in Equities Risk Management.
He founded in 2000 On finance, an investment boutique active in derivatives and risk management for IAM, family offices and insurance companies.
He is still active as the Managing Partner of On finance. He also served as member of the board of several financial portfolio management companies and of Banca Gesfid in Lugano.
Stefano Sampietro - Member of the Board
Over 15 year experience on financial markets. He gratued in Economics at the Università degli Studi dell’Insubria and obtained in 2004 a Research PHD in Quantitative Finance at the Università della Svizzera Italiana. He starts working in the same year as a quant and structurer at On finance SA. He also carried-on teaching and research activity in Statistics at the Università Bocconi from 2002 to 2004, professor of Statistics, Business Statistics and Modern Portfolio Theory at the Università LIUC Carlo Cattaneo frp, 2001 to 2010. He is currently an Executive Director at On finance SA.
Scientific Publication
- Bayesian Analysis of Mixtures of Autoregressive Components with an Application to Financial Market Volatility, 2006, Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Vol. 22, Issue 3, 225-242
- An MCMC Algorithm for Bayesian Analysis of Hierarchical Partition Models, 1998, con P. Veronese, Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, Vol. 7, no. 2, 209-220
- Bayesian Analysis for Mixtures of Autoregressive Components with Application to Financial Market Volatility, LIUC paper, Maggio 2005