Always in motion. By design.

I am Italian, born and raised in Vicenza, and over the years I have lived in 13 apartments across 7 cities and 5 countries, carrying a moka pot through every move.

The journey has taken me from engineering and finance studies in Milan, Madrid, Paris, and Nice to investment banking in London and Zurich; from writing about renewable energy, infrastructure, and financial markets for Starting Finance, Forbes, and Milano Finanza to teaching skiing in the mountains of St. Moritz.

I often joke that I am the friend with the highest number of unpaired socks. After thirteen apartments, countless train rides, and more suitcases than I care to remember, I have accepted that some things are simply not meant to be tracked.

Professionally, I have spent much of my career analysing businesses, financial markets, and the systems that shape our economies. Outside work, my attention tends to drift elsewhere: towards coffee, design, architecture, jazz, cities, culture, and the kinds of conversations that begin with a simple observation and end somewhere entirely unexpected.

The Espressocrat emerged from that tension between markets and culture, analysis and curiosity. It is built on a simple conviction: that coffee deserves the same intellectual curiosity we reserve for wine, architecture, music, or art. A cup of espresso is never just coffee. It is a story about culture and trade, design and history, economics and human behaviour.

For now, I write from Paris, although experience suggests I should avoid making long-term predictions.

V, The Espressocrat