Jack Bertoli

Who is Jack Bertoli?

Jack Vicajee Bertoli, is an Indian planner and architect, naturalized as a Swiss citizen, and living in Geneva, Switzerland, and Spain. He was born to an Italian father, Fausto Piscionieri, an interior designer and architect practicing in India in the early 1930s, and a Parsee mother, Kathleen "Kitty" Vicajee. His mother's family, the Vicajees, are one of the oldest Zoroastrian Parsee families, who were closely attached as bankers to Nizam of Hyderabad, one of the wealthiest Muslim rulers of India. A silver coin, the "Pestonshahi Sikka", was minted in India in 1840 for the first and only time, in honor of the Pestonjee Meherjee brothers, for the Vicajee family.