Stefano Mastrogiacomo is founder of Arvetica, a consultancy firm specialized in private banking. Before Arvetica’s creation, Stefano spent more than 8 years at Pictet & Cie, a leading financial institution in Geneva, Switzerland. He worked on the elaboration and implementation of a large strategic management initiative in the Private Banking department. Prior to that Stefano was head of Pictet’s e-Business Group. His team created the on-line corporate presence, launched several e-banking applications and intranets. He also worked for Caterpillar as collaborative technologies developer. Stefano holds a PhD, a Masters degree in Information Systems and a Business Administration degree, all of the HEC Business School of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.