Giovanni (Ghigo) RAVANO
Executive Chairman
IFCHOR GALBRAITHS

Giovanni (Ghigo) Ravano is the Executive Chairman of IFCHOR GALBRAITHS, a merger which joins together two historic shipbroking companies – dry-bulk oriented IFCHOR and tanker and sale-and-purchase specialist GALBRAITHS. The company is headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland with 21 offices around the world and over 300 employees. IFCHOR GALBRAITHS aims to deliver a truly innovative service through sophisticated and personalized advisory. The entity further invests in areas such as digitalization, research, offshore, renewables and environmental transition services.

Prior to his position as Executive Chairman at IFCHOR GALBRAITHS, Ghigo was 
co-Chief Executive of IFCHOR which he joined in 2020. 

Earlier, he spent over 20 years at the agribusiness commodity leader Bunge. Having first joined the business in 1999 as a trader, he has worked in Singapore, New York, and Rome where he progressed in various commodity trading and regional roles.

In 2008, Ghigo became the Vice President of Ocean Freight, based in Geneva, a position he held for 8 years. In his last 4 years at Bunge, Ghigo was Vice President of Global Trading.

Ghigo is a highly experienced commodity trading and shipping professional with a strong executive background.

Ghigo graduated from the University of Lausanne with a degree in International Politics and holds an Executive MBA from IMD in Lausanne.