Gian Piero Alpa studied Civil Engineering (Italy) and received an MBA from Stanford (USA). Alpa has previously served as a Professor of Technical Physics at the Polytechnic of Turin. As a former consultant at McKinsey & Co. he ran the European Technology Fund. He has been active for 20 years in Private Equity and trading and developed a strong interest in AI for trading applications. Further, Alpa is a board member of OMT (Turin) and Boostore (London).