Rosario Cerra is the Founder and President of the Digital Economy Centre and Chairman and CEO of I CAPITAL. With an extensive career in strategic consulting for complex organisations, he works with numerous leading organisations at national and international level. 

In 2003, he established ABCapital, which, in 2017, formally adopted the brand of the group holding company, I CAPITAL, operating in the fields of Strategic consulting, related Operations, and supporting Finance. He has served as advisor on strategies and their implementation across various sectors, working with notable organisations, including Amazon Web Services, Carrefour, Cisco, Deutsche Bank, Enel, Eni, General Motors, Generali, Google, Gruppo FS, HPE, Intesa Sanpaolo, Leonardo, Mastercard, Microsoft, Open Fiber, Poste Italiane, Shell, Terna, and Tim. Additionally, he has engaged with institutions such as the Chambers of Commerce, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy, the Lazio Region, and Unioncamere, as well as associations including Cisl, Cna, Confagricoltura, Confartigianato, Confcommercio, and Confindustria. 

In 2017, Cerra founded the Digital Economy Centre (Centro Economia Digitale), one of Italy’s most authoritative think tanks specialising in the Economics, Strategies and Policies of Innovation. The Centre produces scientific research, econometric analyses, and policy proposals, which are shared with institutional and governmental authorities of Italy and the European Union. 

An expert in economics, innovation, and geopolitics, Cerra contributes to national and international publications. His recent works include Coopetition (2024), Frontier Technologies (2023), Growing Together (2022), Next Generation Italy: Execution (2021), Technological Sovereignty (2021), and White Paper on the Digital Economy (2020).