Cesare is an associate professor of finance and the director of the blockchain initiative at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary research interest is in corporate finance. His research, published in the top Finance journals, includes work on FinTech, corporate governance, credit rating agencies, small business financing, and the effects of social networks and culture on financial policies.

He teaches FinTech, corporate finance and valuation to MBA, MSF, and MSBA programs, and empirical corporate finance to Ph.D. students. Cesare holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and an MBA and Ph.D. in Finance from UCLA Anderson. He was a visiting professor at the Wharton School in 2012/2013. Before his MBA, he worked as strategic management consultant at Booz Allen and Roland Berger in Italy, and as summer intern at the United Nations in New York.