Davide Cecchini

Davide Cecchini is Managing Director & CFO at EXE Engineering, and Partner at the early-stage VC program IKIGAI Previously, he was Managing Director at IKIGAI from 2022 to 2024, backing 60+ seed companies in 36 months with its acceleration programs. Until 2022, he was in charge of Business Development at Club degli Investitori, one of the main angel investment groups in Italy (250+ business angel with €30M+ invested); previously, he worked at Intesa Sanpaolo from 2015 to 2018, one of the major banking group in Italy, working at its Innovation Center. In 2013, he has also been Chapter Director for Startup Grind, a global network of startup communities, sponsored by Google for Entrepreneurs. He holds an M.A. in Philosphy at University of Pisa and a post-grad Master in Innovation Management at Scuola Sant’Anna.