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Marco was born in Varese, on the swiss border, in 1975. After having completed high school in a small village near Varese (Gavirate) he moved to Milano to attend the quantitative focus university course of Discipline Economiche e Sociali at Bocconi University. He graduated there with a yet to be understood thesis on Incomplete Markets and the limits of neoclassical economic theory in a world characterized by unhedgable risks.
He spent one year of his life in the military, serving as a Carabiniere in a small police station near Milano (Varedo); he stills considers this to be the most important period of his life concerning his growth as a man. He later started his career in the hedge fund business, working for offshore single manager funds (mainly global macros and long-short equities) with advisory companies based in Switzerland. Since December 2006 he is based in Pfaeffikon SZ, 20 mins from Zurich, where he is in charge of commodity-related investments analysis for an important alternative assets management company. In his spare time he loves to read and to drive his convertible around lake Zurich.
Michael was born in 1978 in Moldova which was a part of the Soviet Union then. Have finished the high school and started the University studies towards a degree in Computers Science and Marketing. In 1998 repatriated to Israel where studied Physics for two years and started the professional career.
The interest in computers and all the surrounding technologies started to develop when he was eleven. Since then Michael worked in various big and small companies achieving wide expertise in TLC an IT areas growing up from first level technical support to system and network architect.
Since 2004 Michael is was working in Italy as an independent ICT consulter on projects for companies ranging from small startups to big enterprises.
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