Career
As an entrepreneur, he brought from the United States to Europe the first investable Hedge Funds Index. A student of the first generation of the master Hiroshi Shirai, he began practicing karate Shokotan in 1965 in Milan. During the World Karate Championship held in Tokyo in July 1973, the Japan Karate Association rewarded him with the award “Kantosho” as "the most complete athlete and fighter" of the Championship.
During his military service, carried out in the Carabinieri Corps in 1972, his proposal to establish the karate section in the sports group of the Force got accepted.
In 2009 he founded the cultural association Life Journey of which he was president The purpose of the association was to develop a culture of leadership based on values.
In 2012, Luigi Zoia founded as Chairman the The Conscious Business Group, a nonprofit Cultural Association which spreads the message of self-aware leadership in Business promoting the integration of Sustainable Profitability with Social Prosperity. In 2013 he writes his autobiographical book "Falling seven times..standing up eight" “Cadere sette volte… rialzarsi otto” published by "Armenia Publishing Group" where he tells us his story as a man, entrepreneur and karate fighter.
After the success of the first edition, the book has been published by Mental Fitness Publishing in October 2014.
Graduated at Bocconi University in 1974, in 1976 Zoia began working for Citibank in Milan. In 1982 he moved to New York as a VP Head of the Eastern Region for CITI Forza Italia. At the end of 1989 he left Citibank to start a business as an entrepreneur in the New York real estate. In 1998 he moved back into the financial industry, first creating and managing an offshore hedge fund, and then in 1999, he founded HFR Europe, a Hedge Fund European Asset Management Company, and ran it until 2004 as president and Chief Executive Officer. The company provided Hedge Funds asset management services to institutional investors in Europe.
Under his leadership HFR Europe grew up to $1.9 billion.
Today he is active in the international market as an entrepreneur with main interest in real estate and finance.