Carlo Gherardi received his degree in Economics from the University of Bologna, Italy.
Between 1979 and 1988 his career experience has included working as an International Business Consultant, as Controller in a leasing company and later as Chairman and Managing Director of a Retail Credit Company.
In 1988 Carlo Gherardi, together with some Financial Institutions, founded CRIF, the first Credit Bureau in Italy for retail credit, and has been since then the CEO.
CRIF is a global company supplying solutions to support banks, financial institutions, insurance companies, telcos, utilities and general businesses in every phase of customer relations. In 35 years, CRIF expanded to the present Group, with CRIF Companies in 40 countries, over 6,600 staff professionals and over 700ML Euros of revenues.
Carlo Gherardi and CRIF were among the founders, in 1990, of ACCIS, the Association of Consumer Credit Information Suppliers. Mr. Gherardi has been ACCIS President between 1997 and 2000.
He is also co-founder of the World Consumer Credit Reporting Network, which held the first conference in Rome in 1998. Since then, the WCCRC has been organized every 2 years in different places all around the world.
