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These are not just successful entrepreneurs, but professionals who influence the way their industries evolve. This article presents five leaders to follow in 2026: examples of leadership that demonstrate that the future is shaped by those who decide to take the initiative.
Owen Morton – Contributing to changes in the fintech landscape
Owen Morton is a Dubai-based fintech entrepreneur and founder of Owen.comwhere he develops scalable digital systems at the intersection between trading, technology and financial infrastructure.
Their ventures span digital platforms, trading technology and fintech ecosystems. Instead of creating isolated products, Owen builds interconnected platforms that solve real problems for traders. Through Owen.comleads digital consulting, startup investment and growth strategy, helping intuition-led companies operate more systematically within data-driven environments. His work includes blockchain infrastructure for businesses and crypto-native payment systems that offer faster settlements and lower costs.
Owen created Grow Morea microeducation platform that teaches entrepreneurs modern growth systems through practical frameworks covering content creation, affiliate marketing, and personal branding. Their approach is straightforward: identify inefficiencies → understand users → design solutions → scale systems.
Each project reflects the same mission: to give people better tools and clearer paths to success. What makes your story attractive is not just what you have built, but how you build it: creating ecosystems, not independent products. He is helping founders shorten the learning curve he traveled alone, developing infrastructure for the next generation of fintech entrepreneurs.
Federico Lacarbonara – Yovendo and Serial Srl
The story of Federico Lacarbonara and that of Yovendo are based on the same evidence: in sales, the problem is not the leads, but what happens within the conversations.
After more than ten years leading companies and commercial teams, Federico has seen the same limits repeated everywhere: lack of control over calls, training that is not applied, and inconsistent performance.
From that experience was born Serial Srlan “AI Farm” designed to create, not a single product, but a process capable of generating vertical AI solutions quickly and validated in the field.
Yovendo is the first result: a AI Sales Coach in real time that seeks to make each interaction more measurable and traceable, analyzing tone, objections, adherence to the script and supporting salespeople and managers during the conversation. It does not replace the seller; it enhances it.
The project grows thanks to a founding team with complementary skills:
- Gianpaolo Delle Donne oversees alignment between product and customer experience.
- Claudio Vaccaroentrepreneur, leads strategy and positioning;
- Paris Usai He is an expert in building high-performance sales networks.
- Marco Tullio Cataldo He is a lawyer.
It is a team created to bring control, quality and measurable performance to Italian companies.
More in yovendo.ai.
Felice Vatalaro – Founder of Luxynvestment
Felice Vatalaro is known as the Luxury Capital Engineer: An entrepreneur and author who has integrated neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and finance to create a singular method of capital management.
Con Luxynvestmentoffers entrepreneurs and investors predictive strategies that combine profitability with strategic elegance.
Author of the book Luxury InvestmentVatalaro argues that true luxury is not about accumulating, but about designing time and protecting clarity. Based in Dubai, he has already accompanied more than 300 high-profile professionals, establishing himself as a reference for those who see finance not only as an economic tool, but as a cultural language.
Learn more about his work at felicevatalaro.com
Gabriele Stoppello – Founder of RoboBook
Born in 1998, Gabriele Stoppello created RoboBooka platform that uses artificial intelligence to produce and publish books in very short terms, organizing business knowledge in structured editorial formats.
In less than two years, he has worked with entrepreneurs, legal firms and service companies that see the book as a tool for positioning and building relationships with the market.
The RoboBook model integrates strategy, content and technology: from defining the editorial angle, through AI-guided production, to publication and distribution on the main platforms. Stoppello works with a team of more than 50 collaborators, including authors, editors and digital specialists, creating repeatable and scalable editorial routes for clients.
His work is part of a broader trend: using the book not only as a cultural product, but as a lever of authority for companies and professionals who want to systematically give written form to their experience.
More in https://gabrielestoppello.com/
Arnold Koci – Founder of Clientium
Arnold Koci is the founder of Clientsan Italian agency specialized in generating B2B commercial appointments for service and consulting companies.
The model is pay-per-performance: Clients pay only for meetings that actually take place, an approach that departs from the traditional logic of retainer-based agencies and aligns incentives between provider and client.
Koci started working at the age of 14 on construction sites, moved into door-to-door sales at the age of 16 and, after an experience in the United States in the B2B growth and marketing sector, returned to Italy to found Clientium. From that journey was born a conviction that guides the company today: results are measured, not promised.
Clientium works with consulting, IT, legal, marketing and packaging firms, sectors where lead quality matters more than volume and where sales cycles require truly qualified counterparts. The approach integrates ideal customer analysis, multichannel outreach and structured qualification, with the goal of turning B2B outbound—often fragmented and unpredictable—into a more manageable and repeatable process for sales teams.
More in clientium.it
Conclusion
Whether in luxury finance, AI-powered publishing, business intelligence, fintech or B2B marketing, these five leaders show that the coming years will likely give visibility to those who manage to translate expertise into repeatable systems. Looking at their work offers clues about how these approaches take shape over time. Following them means seeing up close how the future is being built.
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