Studio Portici is built on a simple observation: the most compelling things about Bologna and Emilia-Romagna are almost completely unknown in America.

I first went to Bologna as a student. I have been going back ever since.

Over the years the city became something more than a place I loved. The food, the football, the culture, the rhythm of the streets, the people who make things there with real care and have been doing it the same way for generations. Emilia-Romagna is extraordinary in a way that is hard to explain to someone who has not spent real time there.

I built my career in New York as an operator and leader in fintech, working across strategy, capital formation, and the commercial architecture of a scaling business.

Studio Portici puts those two things together. A genuine relationship with a place and its people. The experience to do something real with it.

The name comes from Bologna's porticos. At 62 kilometers, they are the largest network of covered walkways in the world, built originally in the 11th century to shelter a growing city around the oldest university in Europe. They are simultaneously ancient infrastructure and a living way of life. Bologna walks under them every day.