Cegeka invests in southern Lazio: new IT centre to create 100 jobs

Cegeka, a Belgian multinational specialising in IT solutions, services and consultancy, is expanding in Italia by opening a new centre in southern Lazio. “We are looking for the right location, but we will be up and running soon – it’s just a matter of a few months,” Koen Deryckere, CEO of the Cegeka Group since 1 May 2026, explains to Il Sole 24 Ore. “The aim,” he adds, “is to start by recruiting between 50 and 100 people, but if demand for our services and products grows, as we expect, we should reach between 300 and 400 over the next 2–3 years.” The multinational is keeping the investment figure and the exact location confidential, although the latter is likely to be in the province of Frosinone, near Cassino, halfway between Rome and Naples.

The Belgian multinational, founded in 1992, now has an annual turnover of 1.4 billion, with 10,000 employees worldwide. The Cegeka brand has been present in Italia since 2016, and the Italian branch, led by managing director Lorenzo Greco, has five offices: Rome, Cologno Monzese (Milan), Padua, Gallarate (Varese) and Bologna. There are 500 employees in Italia (almost 150 in Rome alone) and the company has an annual turnover of 50 million. “But we have big ambitions for growth,” continues Deryckere, “with the aim of doubling, if not tripling or quadrupling, our business in Italia over the next 2–3 years. We are already well-established in the Benelux countries, but we want to expand into the larger European economies such as Germany, France, Italia and also the United Kingdom.”

Koen Deryckere, amministratore delegato di Cegeka Group, con il managing director Lorenzo Greco (sinistra) alla guida di Cegeka Italia

For Cegeka, Italia is a very interesting country: ‘Our clients,’ continues the managing director, ‘are not necessarily the big giants. We work a great deal with those medium-sized companies that excel in their market niches, and which have an international reach. There are thousands of such companies in Italia. And for them, IT is no longer just a support function; it is becoming central to the business. It is needed – he explains – to better understand the consumer, optimise production and manage the supply chain’. A trend accelerated by artificial intelligence and cyber security. ‘These now account for between 15 and 25 per cent of our business,’ Deryckere points out.

It is no coincidence that Cegeka’s new centre will open in southern Lazio: the multinational is focusing on products, services and consultancy for the mobility of the future and the aerospace and defence sectors. In the automotive sector, Lazio is home to an industry that is tackling the challenge of transition to sustainable mobility – a software-defined ecosystem in which vehicles, infrastructure, charging networks, satellite services and cloud platforms must function as a single, secure system. And Cegeka is working to integrate physical testing and simulation, artificial intelligence, digital twins, connectivity and cybersecurity.

In the aerospace sector, Lazio is home to one of the most important clusters in Italia. In this sector, Cegeka offers solutions that can connect companies and shorten the path from research to market, through applied research, prototyping, simulation, validation and industrialisation on shared digital platforms. lastly, Lazio is rich in the very skills that Cegeka is seeking: ‘Here, too, there are outstanding university graduates, who can provide us with the professional expertise needed to achieve our goal of rapid growth. Furthermore, we have noted the willingness of local institutions to support our investment”, concludes Deryckere.