About the Founder

NarrativeExcellence Across Two Worlds

By day, Vittorio Manente serves as economist for Aramco Europe, specializing in strategic foresight, energy economics, and market strategy. His work identifies long-term growth potentials and emerging technologies at a global scale. When the institutional day concludes, his focus shifts to MVK Alpha Capital. Driven by a self-described "workaholic" discipline, Vittorio dedicates his remaining 8 to 10 hours daily and his weekends to financial advisory services, quantitative consulting and the vetting of high-stakes investments. For Vittorio, these are not separate lives, but a continuous pursuit of results.

From Engineering to Multi-Layered Markov Chains

Vittorio’s journey into the markets began with a single trade in 2011, but his obsession was sparked in 2017 by a frustration with retail products that offered either reckless drawdown or stagnant returns. Refusing to settle for a lack of control, he leveraged his engineering background to build his own framework. What began as a momentum-based system transitioned into Machine Learning and has now evolved into a proprietary approach using multi-layered Markov chains. 

"I didn't want a black box. I wanted a defined framework that could rotate and resize based on what the market was doing: a system I could trust with my own hard-earned capital."

The Expansion into Vetting and Consulting

Post-2020, Vittorio’s performance caught the attention of funds and HNWIs, leading to the birth of his advisory and quantitative consulting arms. 

His entry into Founders Vetting happened by request: a fund needed a "Red Team" to audit a founder’s business soundness and financial forecasts. Vittorio discovered a unique synergy between his three core strengths: 

• The Engineer: To verify if a technology is structurally sound.

• The Economist: To calculate if a market exists and if growth is sustainable.

• The Human Analyst: A natural ability to read through the narrative and identify the truth behind a founder's words.

Driven by Results

Vittorio is a results-oriented strategist who thrives on the daily achievement of milestones. Whether wearing his economist hat at Aramco or his consultant hat at MVK, his commitment is the same: going above and beyond. He operates at the intersection of tireless work ethic and high-level intellectual curiosity, fueled by the tangible results he delivers for his clients and his own portfolio.

Risk Disclosure & Forensic Limitations Investing in financial instruments involves substantial risk, including the possible loss of principal. Quantitative strategies, backtested results, and algorithmic models are based on historical simulations and are not guarantees of future performance. Market conditions can change rapidly, and technical factors such as API connectivity, software latency, or execution errors may impact realized results. Furthermore, Founders Vetting and due diligence reports are forensic assessments based on point-in-time data and behavioral analysis; they are designed to identify narrative and operational risks but do not eliminate the possibility of underlying fraud, business failure, or future leadership volatility. MVK Alpha Capital does not provide guaranteed returns or capital preservation. All investment and deployment decisions—whether based on algorithmic signals or vetting audits—are made at the client's sole discretion and risk.