Pierluigi Zappacosta

Bio

Mr Zappacosta is the CEO and Acting President of Sierra Sciences. In 1981, he co-founded Logitech, the leading maker of mice and other personal interface products that enable people to work, play and communicate in the digital world. At Logitech he served over a sixteen-year period first as President and CEO and later as Vice-Chairman. He was instrumental in taking the company public in Switzerland in 1988 and on NASDAQ in 1997, raising over $60 million. By the time Mr Zappacosta left in 1998, sales of Logitech had risen to over $400 million per year. He is also Chairman of Digital Persona Inc, a company dedicated to mass market solutions for identification based on biometrics and a Director of M7. Mr Zappacosta was granted an MS in Computer Science from Stanford in 1978.