Pierluigi Zappacosta

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Pierluigi Zappacosta is a Venture Partner with Noventi and CEO and Acting President of Sierra Sciences.

In 1981, he co-founded Logitech (Nasdaq: LOGI) together with Daniel Borel and Giacomo Marini. Logitech is the leading maker of mice and other personal interface products that enable people to work, play and communicate in the digital world. At Logitech he served over a sixteen-year period first as President and CEO and later as Vice-Chairman. He was instrumental in taking the company public in Switzerland in 1988 and on NASDAQ in 1997, raising over $60 million. By the time Mr. Zappacosta left in 1998, sales of Logitech had risen to over $400 million per year.

He is also Chairman of Digital Persona, Inc., a company dedicated to mass market solutions for identification based on biometrics and a Director of M7.

Pierluigi received his bachelor's degree (laurea in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Rome in Italy, graduating cum laude. He earned his master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford in 1978.


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