About Modelomni

Modelomni is a specialised technology provider and quantitative research firm. We architect the infrastructure that enables asset managers to navigate volatile, highly correlated markets with the confidence of a fiduciary fortress.

Global Footprint: Built in the UK. Trusted Globally

Headquartered in the United Kingdom with a deep operational presence in Italy and across the European Union, Modelomni partners with leading asset managers, family offices, and wealth institutions across EMEA and the United States.

Leadership Team

Kamran Usmani

Founder and CEO

Kamran founded Modelomni after more than 35 years in financial markets, spanning trading, brokerage leadership and fund allocation. As CEO, he brings the market judgement and practical understanding of institutional finance that shape where and how Modelomni applies its capabilities. His focus is on identifying problems where Modelomni can create meaningful value and ensuring its solutions are grounded in how markets, capital and institutions actually work.
Kamran  Usmani

Filippo Salamone

Chief Commercial Officer

Filippo leads Modelomni's commercial development, building high-value institutional relationships and partnerships through which its capabilities can have the greatest impact. With more than 20 years’ experience across brokerage and wealth management, he brings a relationship-led approach focused on understanding each partner's objectives, identifying mutual value and developing opportunities into durable, long-term collaborations.
Filippo  Salamone

Simon Smith

Chief Technology and Innovation Officer

Simon leads Modelomni's technology and innovation strategy, ensuring its capabilities are developed around real-world outcomes, rigorous evaluation, safety and trust. With more than 20 years’ experience as a researcher and CTO in high-integrity engineering and safe AI, he focuses on how advanced technologies can be applied responsibly and effectively, setting the principles and direction that underpin Modelomni's technology development.
Simon  Smith

Advisory Partners

Modelomni's Advisory Partners are shareholders who work actively with the leadership team, clients and partners, each bringing responsibility for a distinct area of expertise and execution.

William Knottenbelt

Global Financial Institutions

A former Head of International at Chicago Mercantile Exchange, William advises Modelomni on engaging the global financial institutions and market infrastructure needed to deliver its larger initiatives. Drawing on 40 years’ experience across futures, commodities and international financial markets, he helps Modelomni navigate institutional priorities, build the right partnerships and translate its capabilities across different markets and jurisdictions.
William  Knottenbelt

Ibukun Adebayo

Emerging Economies

As a former Group Director at London Stock Exchange Group, Ibukun specialised in developing financial-market solutions across emerging economies, with a particular focus on sustainable finance. Ibukun advises Modelomni on initiatives addressing major challenges in emerging markets, particularly across Africa. Drawing on deep experience of financial markets, FDI and economic development, he helps align governments, public agencies and private-sector partners around solutions that can deliver meaningful impact at national scale.
Ibukun  Adebayo

Jonathan Shaw

Government & Geopolitics

A former UK Major General and Director Special Forces, Jonathan advises Modelomni on initiatives that require alignment between governments, public institutions and private capital. Drawing on senior experience across complex international and governmental environments, he helps assess geopolitical feasibility, navigate competing stakeholder interests and build the partnerships needed to address sovereign-level challenges and turn ambitious concepts into workable initiatives.
Jonathan  Shaw

Martin Edwards

Partnerships & Commercial Culture

A former Global Head of Business Development at RBS Markets, Martin brings more than 40 years’ experience across NatWest and RBS building client relationships and partnerships founded on trust, credibility and demonstrable results. He advises Modelomni on the principles that shape how it works with people and institutions, helping bring together the right stakeholders with aligned motivations, clear expectations and the behaviours needed to create successful, enduring partnerships.
Martin  Edwards

Modelomni UK

Ash Ahmed

Business Development

Ash brings more than 20 years’ experience in private banking across EMEA, having held senior roles at NatWest, ABN AMRO and Société Générale Hambros. His career spans client coverage, relationship management and business development across some of the region's leading private-banking markets. At Modelomni UK, he develops relationships across the UK and EMEA, drawing on an established network of private banks, family offices and wealth-management professionals to build institutional partnerships and identify opportunities for growth.
Ash  Ahmed

Modelomni Italia

Pierfrancesco Savona

General Manager

Pierfrancesco brings more than 15 years’ experience across algorithmic trading and fintech, having built and led businesses as an entrepreneur, CEO and fund manager. He is also currently Chairman of Euklid, with a career focused on developing technology-driven approaches to financial markets and investment management. As General Manager of Modelomni Italia, he leads its development in the Italian market, building relationships with asset managers, institutional investors and strategic industry partners and coordinating the partnerships and opportunities that underpin its growth.
Pierfrancesco  Savona

Massimo Arrighi

Board Advisor

Massimo brings extensive senior leadership experience across private banking and wealth management, including as CEO of Banca Fideuram and Allianzbank F.A., together with experience advising businesses and financial institutions as a senior partner with Kearney. At Modelomni Italia, he supports business development across banking and wealth management, bringing senior market insight and relationships to help shape institutional positioning, develop partnerships and identify opportunities where Modelomni can create value.
Massimo  Arrighi

Giorgio Ramotti

Board Advisor

Giorgio brings more than 15 years’ experience advising businesses and institutions on M&A and corporate finance, with expertise spanning transactions, strategic advisory and corporate development. He has also been a Lecturer at the University of Turin since 2019, combining practical financial experience with an academic perspective. At Modelomni Italia, he supports business development and strategic relationships, drawing on his corporate-finance experience to engage institutions and partners, evaluate opportunities and help develop the firm's broader position in the Italian market.
Giorgio  Ramotti

Modelomni Principality of Monaco

Riccardo Teodori

General Manager

Riccardo brings more than 20 years’ experience across asset management, advisory and business strategy, combining investment expertise with a broad international network of professional investors and high-net-worth individuals. As General Manager of Modelomni Monaco, he leads the firm's development in the principality, building relationships across its financial and investment community and identifying opportunities to connect Modelomni with investors, institutions and strategic partners.
Riccardo  Teodori

Sabino Giampetruzzi

Business Development

Sabino brings more than 15 years’ experience in luxury brokerage, through which he has developed a deep network among private clients and institutions in Monaco and the wider wealth-management community. At Modelomni Monaco, he focuses on developing local relationships with wealth-management institutions, high-net-worth individuals and family offices, creating the trusted connections and introductions that support the firm's presence and growth in the Monaco market.
Sabino  Giampetruzzi