Giusy Cannone

Giusy is the CEO of Fashion Technology Accelerator, the international digital innovation centre for the fashion industry. She has ten years of expertise in investing and startup management. She was the Investment Manager of Italian Angels for Growth, a business angels network that invested 14 million euros. She formerly worked as an innovation expert at Intesa Sanpaolo bank, where she oversaw a programme that helps tech start-ups grow their businesses. She has also worked in the United States, first as a Researcher at the Kauffman Foundation and subsequently as the coordinator of the Mind the Bridge incubator programme in San Francisco. In addition, she has worked on consulting initiatives to help other countries build their entrepreneurial ecosystems.

She teaches at prominent Italian fashion schools including Istituto Marangoni and Domus Academy.