Riccardo Maria Monti

Riccardo Maria Monti has been a Partner of Renovarum since 2026. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Chief Strategy Officer. He is also Chairman and Venture Partner for Europe of Forty.5 Ventures, the international fund of which Renovarum is the exclusive partner for Italy.

A Neapolitan manager and entrepreneur, he began his career in Paris at GEC Alsthom and went on to Federmeccanica, Logica Consulting and Booz Allen & Hamilton. From 1999 to 2012 he was Executive Director of Value Partners, which he helped grow from a boutique of thirty consultants into an international group of around three thousand professionals in fifteen offices, up to its sale to NTT Data.

In 2012 he was advisor on internationalisation to Minister Corrado Passera, and from 2012 to 2016 he was President of ICE, the Italian Trade Agency for the promotion abroad and internationalisation of Italian companies, as well as Vice Chairman of SIMEST. He then led Grandi Stazioni through the final stage of its privatisation and, from 2016 to 2018, Italferr, the engineering company of the FS Group.

Today he is Chairman of Triboo, having served as its Chief Executive Officer from 2019, and of the Fondazione Carnevale di Viareggio. He sits on the boards of Adler Pelzer, Etna High Tech, Horizon Energi, Sciuker Frames and Nexta Capital Partners, where he is a member of the executive committee and chairs the Nexta Renewable Fund. He is an advisor to the European office of EKN Development.

He has worked with governments and companies in more than forty countries, mainly in the large emerging markets of Latin America, Asia and the Middle East, across finance, telecommunications, infrastructure and manufacturing, on major projects funded by international financial institutions and on numerous privatisations. Since 2007 he has been Treasurer on the Board of the Robert Kennedy Foundation, with which he has worked on projects in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

He graduated with honours from the University of Naples, was a Research Fellow in International Management at Columbia University and holds a master’s in Management of Technology from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, in New York. He is the author of “Sud, perché no?” (Laterza, 2018), a theme he has also taken to the TEDx stage. In 2025 he spoke at Global South Innovation on how innovation and capital are shifting towards markets until now regarded as peripheral.