Mario Carlo Ferrario is the founder and owner of the investment company/family office REDIFIN.
Lawyer, investment banker, venture capitalist, Mario Carlo Ferrario is the founder of Schroder Ventures
(now Permira), the private equity business of British bank Schroders: https://www.permira.com –
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permira
He has 35 years of successful investments behind him with more than 150 deals completed in Italy, Europe,
the United States, Latin America, Africa, Asia and Australia, in a wide and diverse group of sectors.
A pioneer of private investment in Italy, he has personally built a diversified group with aggregate revenues
in excess of $200 million. Completed deals include the turnaround of Pacchetti, a company listed on the
Milan Stock Exchange, Fontana Arte, Italy's leading designer lighting company, Petrini, a textbook publisher,
and the restructuring of Freedomland. He raised the first private equity fund dedicated to Mexico and
made joint ventures in Israel's “Silicon Valley” to internationalize technology start-ups.
REDIFIN established FOR IMPACT CAPITAL, an investment company focused in impact operations according
to ESG standards in association with the Center for Local Development Studies and Policy through Public-
Private Partnerships Territoria House: https://www.territoria.house
Co-founder, together with the Lombardy Region and Milan Polytechnic, of Finlombarda Gestioni SGR,
which he chairs, a Fund of Funds dedicated to bridging the gap between research and value-added
entrepreneurship, he is a member of the Ministry of Education and Research's Spin-off Commission, which
has funded more than 200 high-tech start-ups.
He is a director and member of the Investment Committee of Quadrivio Capital SGR, an asset manager with
1.3 billion euros under management. He is chairman of the Venture Capital group of AIFI, the Association of Italian Investment Firms. President of ABIE, Australian Business In Europe Italy, Co-founder of Save the Children Italia and Oxfam Italia; board member of the Bruno Leoni Institute and former President of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Co-founder and President of Premio Giorgio Ambrosoli Foundation.
He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Harvard Business School, a law degree from Milan State
University and regularly lectures on corporate finance and international investment.
Among his publications :
“Strategic Management in State Owned Enterprises” (Boston, 1978).
“Management Buy- Out: financial instruments for widespread entrepreneurship” (Turin, 1991)