Major focus on further optimization of business organization and accelerating growth in booming market of Digital Trust Services
SENIGALLIA – September 24, 2020 – Namirial S.p.A. (“Namirial”), a leading provider of software solutions and digital trust services is announcing the appointment of Max Pellegrini as its new CEO, effective immediately. Enrico Giacomelli, co-founder of Namirial, remains on board and continues to support the development of the company. Max and Enrico will be writing the next chapters of the Namirial success story together with the majority shareholder Ambienta SGR S.p.A. (“Ambienta”), Europe’s largest sustainability focused private equity investor.
The initial focus of Max Pellegrini will be to transform Namirial from a successful entrepreneurial company into a professionally run leader in the booming market of Digital Trust Services.
“With around one billion digital transactions handled in 2019, a number growing more than four times year on year, Namirial is uniquely positioned to be one of the major players in the market of Digital Trust Services,” says Pellegrini. “I am highly confident to contribute to accelerate Namirial’s growth thanks to my experience, gained over recent years in the United States in a global operation. The pandemic triggered a huge additional demand for digital services and Namirial can provide the solutions and services to satisfy this demand. Among my goals to drive growth are business organization, investments in new products and technological platforms and the development of international markets”- concluded Pellegrini.
The digital transformation made possible by Namirial solutions allows to manage business transactions in a more sustainable way, without using paper and minimizing logistic costs. It is estimated, in fact, that Namirial has allowed a saving of around 9,000 tons of paper in 2019 alone. Namirial solutions are also enabling drastic reductions of energy consumption and emissions as less travel is required for both, people and paper documents.
Giancarlo Beraudo, Partner of Ambienta, that completed the acquisition of 70% of Namirial last May, commented on the arrival of Max Pellegrini: “We are proud to share the story of Namirial with Max, who has a long and complex experience in driving development and growth in the digital sector. We are also sure that his DNA will give the company a strong managerial imprinting with the aim of expanding both the product portfolio and the geographical footprint”.
Max Pellegrini’s experience, gained first in Italy and then in the USA, has always been focused on innovation and digital transformation. Immediately after graduating in Economics in Florence, Pellegrini started a first Italian experience in Andersen Consulting (the current Accenture) and subsequently joined the Florentine start-up Dada, initially as Chief Revenue Officer, where he contributed to the IPO and the expansion process and M&A first in Italy and then abroad, becoming Managing Director International Business. In 2007 he moved to New York where he became CEO of Dada Entertainment and later of Dada.net. In 2011 he joined Buongiorno as Managing Director North America and in 2013 he moved to RealNetworks Inc, with the position of President which he held until September of this year, when he became the CEO of Namirial.
About Namirial
Namirial offers a wide range of digitization solutions, including customer identification, authentication, electronic signature, electronic seals and related certificates, handwritten biometric signature, certified electronic mail, electronic invoicing and solutions for long-term archiving and document management. Namirial also offers software and services for accounting, HR, tax handling, construction and cyber defense. Namirial is certified as a qualified trust service provider pursuant to EU Regulation 910/2014 eIDAS. The company, based in Senigallia, with its 440 employees, through offices in 5 countries and 100 international partners, serves millions of end users around the world, from large companies to small and medium-sized enterprises and professionals.
For further information please visit www.namirial.com
About Ambienta
Ambienta is a sustainability-focused European asset manager with AUM of ca. €1.5 billion, and a leader in applying environmental sustainability trends to investing. Operating out of Milan, London, Paris and Düsseldorf, Ambienta is focused on investing in private and public companies driven by environmental megatrends. In private equity markets, Ambienta manages the world’s largest capital pool for this strategy and has completed thirty-eight investments throughout Europe in the areas of resource efficiency and pollution control. In public equity markets, Ambienta has pioneered the world’s first absolute return fund
entirely focused on environmental sustainability.
For further information please visit www.ambientasgr.com
Media Contacts
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Namirial
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Email: j.lenz@namirial.com