Fiorenzo Manganiello is co-founder of LIAN Group, a pan European venture capital firm investing in disruptive technologies and COWA a leading renewable Bitcoin mining company. An entrepreneur, in 2016 he founded the investment banking team of a Swiss private bank and he led several teams dedicated to ultra-high-net-worth clients. Since 2017 is a professor of Blockchain Technologies in many universities and in 2018, he was awarded as Blockchain Expert Switzerland for 2018 by Acquisition International. He speaks six languages fluently and has a distinguished academic background, having attended institutions such as IMD, London School of Economics and Luiss Business School.