Curriculum vitae
Current roles, earlier career, academic positions, education and open source work of Ferdinando Ametrano.
Updated October 2026. Print this page to get a PDF. The CheckSig profile has the current bio.
Current roles
- CheckSig. Co-founder and CEO. Bitcoin and crypto solutions for private and institutional investors.
- Digital Gold Institute. Founder and Scientific Director. R&D, consultancy and training about bitcoin and blockchain technology.
- Crypto Asset Lab, Department of Business and Law, University of Milano-Bicocca. Founder and Scientific Director. Chairs the CAL conference.
- ESSEC Business School. Adjunct professor.
Earlier career
Ferdinando worked in finance from 1996 to 2018, more than twenty years. He discovered bitcoin in 2014. Since then bitcoin has taken a growing share of his work. Ferdinando left Banca IMI in 2018 and stopped teaching finance in 2022.
- 2016 to 2018, Banca IMI (Intesa Sanpaolo Group). Proof of concept of cash digitization on a private bitcoin-protocol blockchain.
- 2016, Intesa Sanpaolo, Chief Innovation Office. Head of Blockchain and Virtual Currencies.
- 2007 to 2015, Banca IMI, Financial Engineering. Head of Rate Curves and Clearing Tools.
- 2006 to 2007, Banca Caboto, Financial Engineering. Head of Front Office Quantitative R&D.
- 2004 to 2005, Monte Paschi Asset Management. Head of special projects, reporting to the CEO.
- 2002 to 2003, Monte Paschi Asset Management. Risk Management Office: valuation of derivative and structured products.
- 2000 to 2002, RiskMap. Co-founder and managing partner. RiskMap is now part of Confluence Technologies.
- 1999 to 2000, Banca Caboto. Interest rate junior trader.
- 1996 to 1999, Banca Caboto. Front office quantitative analyst, then head of the fixed-income team.
Academic positions and teaching
Adjunct professor. He teaches Bitcoin & Crypto-Assets, earlier called Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology.
- ESSEC Business School, from October 2022. Bitcoin & Crypto-Assets, every fall up to fall 2026.
- University of Milano-Bicocca. Bitcoin course editions from Spring 2017 to March-April 2025. Interest Rate Derivatives from Fall 2013 to the 2021-22 edition.
- University of Milan (La Statale), Department of Mathematics. Bitcoin course editions from Spring 2020 to April-June 2025.
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Brescia). Cyber Security Regulation, in 2020 and 2021.
- Università del Piemonte Orientale. Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology, Spring 2019.
- Politecnico di Milano. Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology, Fall 2016 to Fall 2018.
The teaching page has every edition.
Education
- Laurea in Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano, 110/110 cum laude.
- Ansaldo Energie fellowship: simulation of superconducting magnets at INFN Milan and CERN Geneva.
Languages
- Italian: native.
- English: full professional proficiency.
Selected publications
Price stability for cryptocurrencies (Hayek Money), bitcoin and distributed ledgers, interest rate modelling. The full list is on the research page.
Open source
- btclib. Maintainer. A Python library for bitcoin.
- QuantLib. Founder and former co-administrator. A free and open source software framework for quantitative finance.
- Bitcoin Core. Contributor.
- Scaling Bitcoin. Chair of the host committee, Scaling Bitcoin, Milan, 8-9 October 2016.