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Pierpaolo Zara

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Founder at AIdvance
📍 Switzerland

With over 30 years in financial services at firms like UBS and Credit Suisse, Pierpaolo Zara is now the founder of AIdvance. He leverages his extensive background in leading large-scale transformations and PMOs to coach project management leaders through career transitions. People who have worked with him describe him as trustworthy, efficient, and resourceful.

After his corporate career ended, he treated his own professional reinvention like a project, founding his new venture in nine months.

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Experience
31 Years
Current Role
Founder
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Switzerland
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Career Transformation
He founded AIdvance to coach PM and PMO professionals through career crossroads, helping them redefine their value after redundancy or restructuring.
AI in Leadership
Through his writing and coaching, he focuses on how human leadership skills can be amplified by AI, ensuring leaders evolve with technology rather than being replaced.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Founder
AIdvance
10-2023 - 5-2025
GCRG Operating & Portfolio Management - Director
UBS
10-2022 - 10-2023
Head of Change Compliance Portfolio - Vice President
Credit Suisse
1-2020 - 9-2022
IT COO deputy Lead - Vice President
Credit Suisse
3-2011 - 12-2019
Global IT Portfolio Management Office Lead - Vice President
Credit Suisse
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Education
1990 - 1996
Economia e Commercio Internazionale
Università Ca'​ Foscari Venezia
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