About Us
Software excellence
A Special Team for Outstanding Results
Lightstreamer Srl is an independent software vendor focused on delivering high quality products for real-time messaging and data streaming. Lightstreamer’s software engineers have maniacal care for details, resulting in enthusiastic customers all around the world. International top tier banks, aerospace and defense organizations, as well as media and entertainment companies have been using Lightstreamer’s products extensively, with outstanding results.
The Leader in Real-Time Messaging and Data Streaming
Lightstreamer is a global leader in real-time messaging and data streaming solutions. Since the beginning, Lightstreamer has been focused on real-time technologies aimed at making the Web a live environment, and superseding the traditional Web paradigm, where any update had to be “pulled” by the client rather than “pushed” by the server. Lightstreamer anticipated and helped develop new technology paradigms, such as Comet and WebSockets, and is now leading the real-time messaging space, including Mobile and the Internet of Things.
The Lightstreamer products have been used by a growing number of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, including top-tier financial institutions, as well as aerospace, defense, energy, gaming, sporting, media, and entertainment companies. In 2012, Weswit (the name of the Lightstreamer company at that time) was recognized as a “Cool Vendor in Application and Integration Platforms” by Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company.
Lightstreamer has millions of end-users served by hundreds of customers worldwide, including NASA, Delta Airlines, Sky, eToro, Fidelity Investments, Fannie Mae, IG Group, Societe Generale, UBS, DNB, Intesa Sanpaolo, StoneX, Forex.com, OOCL, and many others.
Board of directors
Alessandro Alinone
Co-founder and CEO
Alessandro was born in Milan. Graduated in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano and in General Management at SDA Bocconi. He started his career as a researcher and teacher at CEFRIEL. He worked for Par-Tec, where he designed several advanced trading platforms for different financial institutions. Alessandro created the Lightstreamer technology, co-founded the company in 2004, and has been leading its technical and strategic development as the CEO.
Alessandro Benini
Chairman
Alessandro was born in Verona. He has been working for more than 40 years in the IT industry, firstly in a banking company then in Systems & Management, where he held roles of responsibility in Sales and Accounting departments. During his 15 years in the American corporation EDS, he was Client Executive and Client Delivery Executive for some major outsourcing contracts signed with top Italian customers. He is currently Chairman of Par-Tec and Lightstreamer.
Aronne Vettor
Co-founder and Non-Executive Director
Aronne was born in Cremona. Graduated in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. He started his career as a field engineer in the dealing room area. In 1998, he co-founded Par-Tec, which originated together with Fineco, the first Italian online broker. He co-founded the Lightstreamer company in 2004. Aronne is currently Sales Director at Par-Tec and Board Member of Lightstreamer.