Stefano Buono Chief Executive Officer newcleo

Stefano Buono is an accomplished Italian physicist and alumnus of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). Until January 2018, Mr. Buono served as Chief Executive Officer and board member of Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA), an international radiopharmaceutical company he founded in 2002 and acquired in 2018 by Novartis for $3.9 billion.

In 2018 he founded Elysia Capital, his single-Family Office based in London and Turin, focused on social impact investments in the field of Sustainable Innovation, Wellbeing, Education, Art, and Culture.

Since 2018, Stefano Buono is Chairman of Planet Smart City, a global leader in integrating smart solutions and social innovation practices in the design and development of large, affordable, smart real estate housing projects. With 1,700 employees, the company is currently operating in Italy, Brazil, India, the USA and Colombia.

Since 2019, Mr. Buono is also Chairman of LIFTT, a not-only-profit investment holding that focuses on innovation and technology transfer from research institutions. LIFTT has already invested in more than 35 companies and it has been ranked the third venture investor in Italy in 2022.

In 2021, Stefano Buono co-founded and incorporated the nuclear technology company newcleo, of which he is CEO. The company is based in UK, Italy, and France. In just its first year of operation, it raised EUR400m reaching around 200 employees, and currently employing almost 700 by mid-2024. It pursues the goal of bringing forward the most sustainable strategy for the nuclear industry of the future, with innovations that increase safety, reduce costs, avoid mining, and dramatically reduce nuclear waste.