Managing Partner – Co-founder of DECALIA in 2014 – Member of the Board – Member of the Executive Committee – Member of the Strategy and Investment Committees
Alfredo Piacentini began his financial career in 1986 at Bank Lombard Odier as a financial analyst and fund manager, both in Geneva and London, before founding Banque SYZ in 1995 with two Partners.
As partner and co-CEO of the SYZ Group, he was in charge of private banking, discretionary portfolio management and the Oyster investment funds until his departure in 2014 (CHF 33 bn of assets under management).
He was also a board member and then Chairman of Banca Albertini SYZ in Milan from 2000 to 2019.
Alfredo Piacentini holds a Master degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, obtained in 1981.
Rodolfo De Benedetti
Partner – Member of the Board – Head of Fund Managers and Product Strategy – Member of the Executive Committee – Member of the Strategy Committee – President ofthe Board of Directors DECALIA Capital SA
Rodolfo De Benedetti is currently Chairman of the Board and majority co-shareholder of the Italian group CIR since 2013, where he served as CEO for eighteen years.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Sogefi. Additionally, he currently chairs the Harvard Business School’s European Advisory Board and is a member of the European Round Table of Industrialists (ERT).
Rodolfo De Benedetti also worked for Bank Lombard Odier and Shearson Lehman Brothers in the US.
He holds a Master degrees in Political Economy and Law from the University of Geneva.
Sébastien Demole
Partner – Head of Alternative Advisory – Member of the Executive Committee – Member of the Strategy and Investment Committees
Sébastien Demole began his career in 2002 at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London, as a junior trader. Two years later, he was sent to Hong Kong to develop the equity derivative trading desk.
In 2009, he joined the Parisian hedge fund Boussard & Gavaudan Gestion as a proprietary trader for the multi-strategy fund.
Sébastien Demole opened the PerenInvest Family Office in Switzerland in 2012, where he was in charge of investments in various asset classes, such as direct deals in Private Equity.
He holds a BSc in Economics from Queen Mary, University of London and an MBA from INSEAD.
Xavier Guillon
Partner – Head of Business Development & DECALIA Funds – Member of the Executive Committee
Xavier Guillon is also a member of the Investment Committee of the International Labor Organization (ILO) since 2009. He also served as a board member of the Alliance of Swiss Wealth Managers (ASWM) for a period of six years.
He worked for 14 years at US private bank Brown Brothers Harriman, in London and New York, heading institutional sales. He then joined Banque SYZ in 2007, where he held a number of functions, including CEO of the Oyster investment funds and member of the group’s Executive Committee.
He holds an MBA in International Marketing and a BBA in International Business from Georges Washington University.
Nicolò Miscioscia
Partner and Head of Private Markets
At DECALIA, Nicolò Miscioscia is Head of Private Markets, an activity that he helped to develop since its inception. He is also Co-Portfolio Manager for Private Markets funds and mandates managed by DECALIA.
Nicolò Miscioscia is a chartered accountant (ACCA) and holds a Bsc in Management from Cass Business School in London.
He began his career as an auditor in the financial sector, spending 4 years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in Geneva and Luxembourg. He then co-founded U-Start Club in Lugano and Milan, a private markets platform specialised in venture capital syndications.
