Sandro Salsano

Sandro Salsano
Born (1979-09-25) September 25, 1979
Lecco, Italy
Occupation Businessman
Sandro Salsano, businessman and investor at 2015 Davos

Sandro Salsano (born September 25, 1979 in Lecco, Italy) is an Italian self-made entrepreneur, businessman, investor and philanthropist. He is the President of Salsano Group and Chairman of Salsano Family Office.[1][2][3] 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][5] He sits on the Board of a number of companies. He was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.

Early life

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

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.[6] He speaks English, Italian, Portuguese, French, Spanish and Russian.

Early Business Ventures

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. He was a principal in a UK FCA regulated hedge fund.[7]

Investments

Salsano Group of Companies[8] comprises over 100 companies with stakes in sectors like transmedia, social media, smartphone breathalyzer, family locator, data platform, e-commerce, social betting, microRNA detection, luxury mobiles,[9] global consumer, blockchain, parenting tool, music, financials, global sustainable real estate (ecoprojects, hospitality, industrial, residential, commercial, retail, parking, land).[10] The group has its headquarter in Panama with presence in Miami, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, London, Zurich, Geneva, Dubai and Shanghai.

Awards and achievements

Salsano has been honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2014 [11] 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, Jack Ma, Chairman of Alibaba, 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 Leonardo Di Caprio.[12]

He is often featured on several medias like CNBC,[13] 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).

Salsano is a regular name on the guest list of many major international gatherings of world leaders. He is a frequent visitor to global events such as the World Economic Forum, the Milken Institute as well as the Clinton Global Initiative.

Philanthropy

He has donated among others to the William J. Clinton Foundation.,[14] Raisa Gorbachev Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF), Amfar, Leonardo Di Caprio Foundation, 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.[15]

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.[16]

Mr. Salsano is also a Fellow at the Aspen Institute, an international nonprofit organization founded in 1950, headquartered in Washington, D.C., USA, and campuses in Aspen, Colorado (its original home) and at the Wye River in Maryland.[17]

Personal life

He got married to Johanna Shahani on the 14th of march 2014 in Panama City. 2,000 guests attended the wedding.[18] 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 [19][20] He has travelled to more than 100 countries (among those North Korea, Greenland, Tibet, Cuba, Iran, Ukraine, Tanzania).

External links

References

  1. ↑ "MUNDO SOCIAL SEPTIEMBRE 2012". Mundosocial.net. Archived from the original on November 12, 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  2. ↑ http://www.salsanofamily.com
  3. ↑ "Alpha Metrix Event Registrant List".
  4. ↑ http://www.salsanoshahani.org
  5. ↑ http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000303726
  6. ↑ http://www.incae.edu/en/news/wef-young-global-leaders-trained-in-leadership-for-sustainable-development-at-incae.php
  7. ↑ http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000303726
  8. ↑ http://www.salsanogroup.com
  9. ↑ http://it.fashionmag.com/news/Savelli-annuncia-un-nuovo-investitore,434615.html#.Vwyc_oTWPx4
  10. ↑ http://www.pambianconews.com/2014/10/08/nuovo-investitore-in-savelli-154098
  11. ↑ http://www.weforum.org/young-global-leaders/sandro-salsano
  12. ↑ http://www.weforum.org
  13. ↑ http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000303726
  14. ↑ "2009 donors to Clinton foundation". Seattle Times (AP). January 1, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2013.
  15. ↑ http://www.salsanoshahani.org
  16. ↑ Bredt engasjement for Dignity Day i Norge (in Norwegian) Aftenposten, 16 October 2011
  17. ↑ http://www.aspeninstitute.org
  18. ↑ https://www.weddingstylemagazine.com/inspiration/real-weddings/johanna-shahani-sandro-salsano
  19. ↑ "List of astronaut passengers SpaceshipTwo Virgin Galactic".
  20. ↑ "DiCaprio space trip Virgin Galactic".
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