Pierluigi Zappacosta

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Pierluigi Zappacosta (born Chieti, July 2, 1950) is a Venture Partner with Noventi and President and CEO of Sierra Sciences.

In 1981, he co-founded Logitech^[1] (Nasdaq: LOGI) together with Daniel Borel and Giacomo Marini, which went on to become the world's largest manufacturer of computer mice and other personal interface products.^[2] Zappacosta served at Logitech for sixteen years, first as President and CEO and later as Vice-Chairman.^[3] He was instrumental in taking the company public in Switzerland in 1988 and on NASDAQ in 1997, raising over $60 million. By the time Mr. Zappacosta left in 1998, sales of Logitech had risen to over $400 million per year.

Zappacosta is also Chairman of Digital Persona, Inc., a company dedicated to mass market solutions for identification based on biometrics and a Director of M7,^[4] and chairman of Quindi, a software productivity tools company.^[5] He also sits on the Board of Trustees of the Reason Foundation.^[6]

He received his bachelor's degree (laurea in Electrical Engineering) from the University of Rome in Italy, graduating cum laude. He earned his master's degree in Computer Science from Stanford in 1978.^[7]

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