Simone Strocchi

Mr. Strocchi obtained a degree in economics and business at the University of Pavia in 1996, he was an officer in the Italian Navy and after experiences in various sectors with increasing levels of responsibility during his early career, he became the co-director of the Department of Financial Engineering of the Structured Finance and Advisory Division of BCI (Banca Intesa).

In 2002 he founded the Electa group, an independent advisory & merchant bankers firm, of which is managing partner, specialized in deal structuring and M&A Advisory, assisting on over 100 purchase/sale transactions focused on SMEs in a period of 10 years, on behalf of leading European private equity funds.

 Since 2012 he has been a pioneer in the creation of SPACs and “pre-booking companies” in Italy, focused on outstanding SMEs, of which he is a sponsor and promoting investor. Strocchi was the founder and former chairman of Genus, a company that in 2011 created the first SPAC under Italian jurisdiction, “Made in Italy1”, of which he was the managing director until the success of the business combination with SeSa (in January 2013), one of the leading companies active in IT, currently listed on the MTA/STAR segment.

In 2014 he founded IPO Challenger, an innovative pre-booking company which shaped and prepared the listing of IWB in 2015; in 2017 he founded IPO Challenger 1, of which he was chairman, a further rapid cycle pre-booking company which brought Pharmanutra to the stock market; he launched IPOC 2 that invested into and listed Digital Value (one of the Italian leading system integrators and IT solution providers, born from the integration of Italware and ITD Solutions), through the latest evolution of the SPAC model by Electa, SPAC in CLOUD. In 2022, he led the prebook investment and listing process of Magis spa.

Simone Strocchi is also board member of various listed and private companies, as well as chairman of the Advisory Committee of the IPO Club fund, an Italian closed ended fund focused on investing in IPO acceleration, conceived and realized with the Azimut group. Simone Strocchi is Chairman of AISPAC – Italian Association for the promotion of SPACs and pre-booking companies.

As mentioned, Simone Strocchi took part of the integration process of IWB.