Business Consultant & Financial Services
Born in Trieste (IT) and staying in Barranquilla (CO)
Mauro Montesano is a business consultant focused on financial services, with nearly twenty years of international experience — most recently in fintech, and before that in iGaming, insurance and banking. He has held senior roles spanning risk management, corporate finance and executive leadership, including Chief Financial Officer of a leading Malta-based iGaming group, Risk Management Solvency II project lead at Accenture, and Corporate Finance consultant at KPMG.
His current independent practice focuses on business planning (including support in obtaining bank financing), business valuation, financial modeling, capital allocation and AI financial systems for corporate and start-up clients. He combines regulatory expertise with hands-on experience building automated financial and trading tools, including the design and deployment of end-to-end systematic trading systems leveraging containerized microservices architectures and probabilistic AI-driven decision engines — integrating generative AI models to enhance signal generation, risk assessment and adaptive strategy execution.
Strategic advisory on financial soundness of corporate projects and new ventures: market research, business modeling, valuation and quantitative risk solutions, alongside the design and operation of production-grade, containerized AI pipelines for systematic and multi-strategy algorithmic trading, combining probabilistic machine learning models and generative AI to automate and optimize decision-making across diverse market conditions.
San Julian (Malta) — technology provider for online casino platforms, today one of the largest players in Malta's gaming sector. KPI definition & implementation, Casino Platform Finance Legacy Backoffice re-engineering, Financial planning & budgeting, Cash flow forecasting, Consolidation accounting, Process automation and ERP implementation.
Udine (Italy). Definition and monitoring of Key Risk Indicators, Loss data collection, Risk Self Assessment, KRI monitoring, Basel II capital requirements.
Milano (Italy). Risk Based Capital Model framework implementation, Solvency II reporting architecture (QRTs), enterprise risk-based capital modeling, ALM & ORSA framework design for major insurance groups.
Milano (Italy). Corporate Finance — Banking & Insurance (Credit Guarantee Consortium). RWA optimization, NPL strategy, Solvency II Standard Formula implementation, business plans, process re-engineering.
Trieste (Italy). Retail insurance sales — two-time Sales Production Award winner.
2008 — MIB Trieste School of Management, Trieste, Italy
EFMD Accredited Master's program covering Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), Insurance Operations, and Quantitative Finance.
Animal Cognition Laboratory, University of Trieste — 2006
Università degli Studi di Trieste — 2005
Thesis: "Conflict Resolution in Non-Human Primates: A Possible Role of Serotonin"
Università degli Studi di Trieste — 2005
Thesis: "Comorbidity between Drug Addiction and Mood Disorders"
Italian (mother tongue) · English (excellent) · Spanish (excellent)
Before his career in finance, Mauro competed at national level in boxing — Italian Elite Absolute Champion in 1999 (Campione Italiano Assoluto) (Bologna). His return to the ring at 37 was covered by Il Piccolo: "Montesano a 37 anni vuole tornare sul ring da 'pro'". Official record: FPI — Statistiche Campionati Assoluti. 1999 results: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl and Sportenote.