Federico Pignatelli

Founder, owner and President of the World largest and most renowned Photo Studio complex, Pier 59 Studios, as well as founder owner and President of Art and Fashion Group, a Talent, Production and Media Group, both companies with operations in NY and Los Angeles. Also a designer and architect by passion, he has entirely conceived in all details his two studios along with his living places, including designing all furniture.

Currently the largest shareholder, Chairman and CEO of BIOLASE, a NASDAQ listed Company, the World’s leader in medical laser technology. All Companies employ a total of 350 people in different locations in New York, Los Angeles, Irvine in United States, and Internationally in Germany, Spain, China, India and Brazil.

Prince Federico Pignatelli della Leonessa was born in Rome. Through his aristocratic ties to Pope Innocenzo XII, Federico’s heritage links him to one of the most noble and ancient families of Italy dating back to 1100AD. As a Real Estate Developer in Italy and as a Financial Journalist for several of the major publications in Italy, he followed with a career as an international businessman in Switzerland, then London, and eventuallylanded him to United States, in New York. After working as a Managing Director for several investment major investment banking and brokerage firms, such as E.F. Hutton, Ladenburg & Thalmann and Gruntal Co., Mr. Pignatelli started his own investment Bank Firm in New York and Los Angeles, EuroCapital Partners. After several years of highly successful and rewarding Investment Banking Business, Pignatelli decided to follow his strong passion for photography that together with his smart business wit led to the creation of Pier 59 Studios, the World’s largest and most technological advanced photographic studios in the world, with state-of-the-art still and motion equipment and the best and unique Real Estate development (a whole Pier in the most fashionable Chelsea district in New York) with huge open spaces, cathedral high ceilings and thebest natural light in Manhattan. Comprised of eleven studios and sound stages, a space of 110,000 square feet, covering in length three NY City blocks, it is the paramount location for photographic productions and a center of international creativity and fashion. In Los Angeles the studio exhibits a clear example of his avant-garde, modern architecture in a large modular space counting four wide studios, a sophisticated bar, and an upper floor connected via a stylish glass and steel bridge. Mr. Pignatelli is a passionate lover of the art of photography and an amateur photographer himself, with many of his pictures published. In 1993, he also founded Art & Fashion Group, a holding company of an array of service business to the advertising and fashion industry, today commonly defined as the Hollywood of photography. Further, he founded The Industry Group USA, representing photographers, models and actors.

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