Matteo Manfredi

Matteo Manfredi (born 1979) is an Italian financier and entrepreneur. He is the founder and chief executive of the multi-family office Gestio Capital, and since 2024 he has served as president of the U.C. Sampdoria.

Manfredi led the takeover of Sampdoria in 2023 when the club was near bankruptcy, and at the time of his appointment he was the youngest club president in Italy's top two football divisions.

Early life and education Manfredi was born in the Province of Pavia in 1979 to a father who was a banker. He studied economics at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and went on to continue his studies at Columbia University in New York, specializing in business administration and management. He worked as a management consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), advising UK banks on complex transactions, and then held senior roles at Barclays and at Lloyds Banking Group as an advisor on European deals. During the 2023–24 season, under head coach Andrea Pirlo, Sampdoria qualified for the Serie B promotion playoffs.

In early 2023, Gestio Capital invested alongside Microsoft in a major funding round in OpenAI, becoming one of the first European investors in the company. Gestio Capital was part of a group that invested over $675 million in a Series B round for Figure AI, a robotics company developing humanoid robots.

In April 2025, it was reported that Gestio Capital was structuring a Luxembourg investment vehicle in partnership with a European bank to open its AI portfolio to a broader set of qualified investors.