Luca Zerbini

Luca is the CEO and co-founder of Una Terra, a €200M Venture Capital fund to accelerate European scale-ups (series A-C) fostering circular economy solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss. Una Terra was selected by the World Economic Forum as “Innovative Fund for our Future” and as top 50 Impact Funds [IA50] by Impact Assets, and it is a B-Corp and Art. 9 SFDR fund.

Luca is also a Sustainability Operating Advisor with Advent International ($100B AUM) and Triton (€25B AUM).  He is an Independent Board Advisor, who holds NED positions at diversified companies with a clear impact agenda, such as RAB Lighting and Another Tomorrow. He also co-authored the book “Standing Up for the Planet: stories of 45 extraordinary women who are changing the world”.

Before leaving his corporate career for impact investing, Luca was a C-suite Executive, with a track record of success as CEO of PE-backed companies over $1B in sales with Bain Capital and Milestone Capital. He also honed his business skills as a management consultant at Bain & Company, as well as at Hewlett-Packard, Amcor and Honeywell.

Luca holds an Industrial Engineering MSE from Politecnico di Milano and an MBA with Honors from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Fellow of The Marketing Academy and of the Institute for Real Growth, connecting top CMOs and Growth leaders.  He speaks fluently English, French, Italian, Spanish and German.