Going public or staying private: the role of ELITE

About the company

ELITE is London Stock Exchange Group’s international business support and capital raising programme for ambitious and fast growing companies.
ELITE is an ecosystem designed to help ambitious companies scale up, structure for growth and be more competitive in the global marketplace.
ELITE combines education, business support, mentoring and access to expertise and funding.

About the speech

Nowadays, it is possible for a firm to maintain the status quo, even if it is quoted on the stock exchange market.
There is a fine line between going public and staying private: ELITE’s role will be taken into analysis.

Guest speaker

Luca Peyrano

Luca Peyrano is CEO of ELITE, a company of the London Stock Exchange Group whose mission is to support private and public companies connecting with capital using the digital technology. With over 15 years of experience in the industry, Luca started with Borsa Italiana in 1999 with responsibility for companies admission to listing and then moved on to manage the SMEs markets offering until year 2007. Following the merger with the London Stock Exchange he was appointed Head of Continental Europe for Primary Markets, until when he took on his present position as CEO of ELITE in 2016. Prior to the London Stock Exchange, he worked in the consumer goods sector and in the automotive industry. He holds a degree in Business Administration from Bocconi University and received an MBA from IMD. Luca serves as member of the Board of the Scale-up Institute in the UK and the Board of Trustees of OIV, the Valuation Standard setter in Italy.