MicroEurope will have its headquarters in Bilbao, from where Seed Capital Bizkaia will be responsible for its technical secretariat. Giampietro Pizzo will hold the presidency of MicroEurope, and Andrea Limone will be its CEO.
The new entity MicroEurope has been launched in Bilbao, with the aim of becoming a benchmark in the management of microfinance at european level.
MicroEurope has been promoted by a group of 8 individual professionals with vast experience in the field of microfinance in the European context, as well as by 3 institutions that act as anchor investors and are benchmarks in this sector: Giampietro Pizzo, Andrea Limone, Maria Doiciu, Katia Raguzzoni, Fabio Malanchini, Svetlana Roganovic, Klaas Molenaar, Elwin Groenevelt, Phitrust, Banca Popolare Etica and Seed Capital Bizkaia.
MicroEurope aims at offering social investors a new way of working with microfinance, with a social approach, focused on people and with a clear inclusive vocation.
Nowadays, microfinance institutions face the challenge of expanding to become a real tool for social inclusion for those people who are excluded by the traditional financial system.
In this context, MicroEurope offers financial support and technical assistance to financial service providers so that they can implement growth and expansion strategies in the management of microfinance in which social and environmental impact, governance and network building play a special role.
MicroEurope will have its headquarters in Bilbao, from where Seed Capital Bizkaia will be responsible for its technical secretariat. Giampietro Pizzo will hold the presidency of MicroEurope, and Andrea Limone will be its CEO.
