About us - eKuota

eKuota, the evolution of corporate finance

Innovation, software, quality, research, trade, finance and creativity are an ever increasing part of our world.

Millions of companies are digital today because they understand it is an essential business tool.

eKuota is dedicated to businesses and personal relationships which are developed through these new processes and interactions.

The net now offers a new way to use finance, with new “user-friendly” tools.

eKuota is the embodiment of the “make it simple” principle: complex systems and instruments within your grasp that are easy to use so you can assess your company’s corporate finances and risk management.

The concept of “openness” was the guiding light which inspired the economists, engineers and researchers who created and developed the eKuota project.

In practice, eKuota is a web platform offering:

the most suitable and advanced technical tools to manage corporate finance and treasury for non-financial companies
state of the art tools used in the international financial markets

The eKuota platform is aimed at the financial departments of non-financial firms and at corporate finance and risk management consultants.

Make your company:

faster
more effective
more efficient

with eKuota!

The eKuota team

Laura Oliva

Co-founder, CEO & Partner

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Degree in Corporate Finance from the Universita’ Luigi Bocconi in Milan, she has more than a decade of experience in capital markets. She was Head of Debt Capital Markets within the Allianz Group and has worked at a number of international investment banks. She has been Global Product Specialist, Head of Structured Finance and ABS team, Head of Syndication and Credit Analyst. She has managed and executed bond issues and loans syndication for major Italian companies, including Exor, Pirelli, Telecom Italia and ENI. She is a Fixed Income and Securitization expert, dealing with financial analysis and financial markets. She writes about economic issues for international newspapers and magazines. Co-Author of the AdviseOnly blog. Member of the Italian CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) association.

Raffaele Zenti

Co-founder & Partner

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Co-founder and Head of the Financial Strategies Group of Adviseonly. Expert in finance and risk management. He graduated in Economics from the University of Turin, with a specialisation in Statistics. He has worked in assets allocation for Sella Asset Management, where he was head of the Financial Business Consultants unit in Engineering. Previously he worked at Allianz Global Investors Italy for ten years as Head of Risk Management and then as Head of Quantitative Management. He was recently the Quantitative Management Manager at Banca Leonardo Group and provided independent consultancy for IDeA Sim – DeA Group. He is also a lecturer in Quantitative Portfolio Management at the University of Turin Master’s in Finance programme, has published various articles in asset management and finance magazines (including the Journal of Asset Management, Economic Notes and Risk) and has contributed to books on subjects related to investment choices and Risk Management.

Fabio Marras

Co-founder & Partner

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Co-founder of Adviseonly and the company’s connecting link between finance and cutting-edge technology. A graduate in Monetary and Financial Markets from Bicocca University of Milan, he also took a Master’s degree in Net Business Administration from the Politecnico di Milano. He was initially involved in Risk Management and then Quantitative Management as IT Project Leader with Allianz Global Investors Italy, where his contribution in technological matters was crucial to the development of proprietary applications for risk analysis and investment choice and management. Subsequently, after a period as a Data Integration Project Leader with Prometeia, he assisted with the start-up of the Quantitative Management unit for the Banca Leonardo Group.

Fabio Liberali

Co-founder & Partner

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Member of the Board of Directors and Chief Communications Officer (CCO) at LU-VE Group. Editorial manager of “Elevatori – The European Elevator Magazine”. Contributor to several international lift industry magazines: “Elevator World” (USA), “Elevator World India” (India), “Lift Report” (Germany), “Ascensores y Montacargas” (Spain), “Vertical Report” (Spain), “Elevation” (UK), Subir y Bajar (ARG), Asansör Dünyasi (Turkey) and “Elenet Press Agency” (USA) and others. Head of Communication & Press Dept. of CUS Pavia – the sports centre of the Università di Pavia (Italy). Italia Magnifica/Interlift 2013 Team Leader. Consultant for several communication departments, trade associations, trade fair organisers, companies and others.

Luigi Zanderighi

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Graduated in Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. Over the years he has gained solid experience in delivering complex software architectures for financial institutions. He worked first as a Functional Analyst, then as Project Manager and Solution Architect for leading multinational companies such as Assicurazioni Generali, Allianz Group, BPB and INA Insurance. He is an expert of the main languages and Server Application and Database Tomcat, WAS, JBoss, Apache, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server. He deals with the following technologies: JWS, Grails, JUnit, JProbe, Ant, Maven, Subversion (SVN), CVS, JSF (Faces), Hibernate, Toplink, JDO Castro, RMI, CORBA, UML, ER, FileNet P8, Documentuum, Jasper BI. He has published in the Java Journal. He was a lecturer at Ubiquity and at Sidi Tecnomatica.

Alessandro Berbenni

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Graduated in IT Sciences from the University of Milan and has more than ten years’ experience in software development. Entrepreneur. In 2004 he founded Wellnet Srl becoming CTO and led projects for clients such as Unicredit Banca Mobiliare, Allianz and Aigo. With Blue Team Group he worked on projects for Gruppo Banca Leonardo and with Advansys as mentor on Groovy/ Grails technologies. He has been part of the Minding business consultancy team since 2009 and since 2010 he has been promoting the development of one of the first SaaS Italian platforms, “Fattura Sprint”, which was among the winning projects of “Cloud Seed” by Seeweb, the contest of the cloud intensity, 2012 edition.

Pietro Carta

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