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Sofistar was founded in 2011 by three partners. The company is based in Lugano, Switzerland and has offices in London.

Our main ambition is to meet our clients needs by providing high quality , efficient and robust software solutions.

Our team is composed by highly qualified professionals who share the same values:

A love of knowledge - highly educated, smart, curious people are what is needed to understand a client's ecosystem
Interdisciplinary - the ability to cross traditional boundaries and combine different skills into one single discipline is key to translating business needs into solutions
Openness - at Sofistar we like open minded, articulate people who are interested in going beyond the obvious, who thrive in multicultural, international environments and who can communicate their experiences with clarity and precision

Challenge us, you will be surprised!

Management Team

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Massimo Brignoni, Dipl. phys. ETH

After teaching physics, Massimo joined the software industry in 2000. He worked as a software developer and as a business consultant before starting his management career as IT director and board member in a financial services company. Before joining Sofistar, he was managing director of the IT and Financial services company of Dominion Group, an investment funds boutique based in London and Guernsey.
Massimo Brignoni holds a master degree in Physics from ETH Zurich.

Max Butti CAIA, IMC

Max started his career at Banca della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano as equity option trader. He then worked for Societe’ Generale as derivatives sales/trader. In 1993 he joined Merrill Lynch Capital Markets where he covered equity derivatives structured products marketing and sales in the Middle East and Southern Europe. In 2001 he moved to Euronext.liffe where he was responsible for Single Stock Futures and where he led the acquisition of Cscreen and the launch of Bclear. From 2006 to 2010 he was Strategic Development Director at Liquid Capital Securities. After a brief stint in 2010-11 at Deutsche Bank as a program manager for Global Equity Derivatives Sales, he joined Sofistar as a managing partner.
Max is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst, holds a Investment Management Certificate from the CFA Society of the UK and he is member of the Financial Derivatives Diploma Panel of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.

Partners

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Murano works with alternative and mainstream asset managers to help them to find new investors in a very targeted and tailored way. Murano's team contacts investors around the globe in order to understand their investment process and where they are allocating. Murano endeavour to provide timely insight on who is investing where and ensuring that any approach made by our clients is relevant. The close relationship with the clients helps them raise assets in a way that is cost effective and pragmatic: focusing on bespoke and targeted leads.

Microsoft is one of the world leader software vendors. We extensively use Microsoft technologies for the development of our products. Sofistar is part of the Microsoft Partenrs Network and of Microsoft BizSpark Program

Interactive Brokers offers worldwide direct market access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and funds, best price execution, and low commissions. Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates' equity capital exceeds $4.8 billion. Our platform integrates with Interactive Brokers through its API and we offer integration with IB for different technologies.