Founded in 1986, Gai & Partner is a Switzerland-based international advisory firm specializing in corporate finance, strategic counsel, executive recruitment, and lobbying for the high-tech, financial, and biotech sectors. Led by a distinguished entrepreneur, Davide Gai, the firm draws on a deep ecosystem—spanning venture investments, board leadership, and academia—to offer clients unparalleled cross-industry insight and networks.
Davide Gai is a serial entrepreneur who has been founding and successfully managing more than 35 high-tech startup companies throughout his career. Currently, he is President and majority shareholder Healthcapital SA (www.healthcapital.ch), formerly BSI Healthcapital.
Healthcapital’s activities are M&A of life science companies, global healthcare policy advisory think-tank, strategic counseling, and fundraising. He is a strategic advisor to EOC (the network of public hospitals in Ticino) and to the Medical School of USI for the fundraising of medical research.
Davide furthermore retains or held various Executive Board positions, such as Kaleyra (www.kaleyra.com), a Wall Street-listed fintech company, and Polus Tech (www.polustech.com). In the past, he was Strategic Advisor to Safeguard Scientifics, Microsoft, Orange, Salt, T-systems, Huawei and CEO of a Nerviano Medical Sciences Group Company.
In Southern Switzerland, he founded Tecnopolo Ticino, the first techno park in the region, and BSI Healthcapital, the first Life Science investment fund, as well as Ticino Informatica and the Lugano Communication Forum.
Life-science Companies that he founded or financed include Telormedix, Specialty European Pharma, Globeimmune, Coimmune, Aravis, Visioncare, Ilab, IMed, for a total of more than 60M CHF of raised capital.
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