Horacio Pagani (born 10 November 1955) is an Argentine-Italian businessman and automobile engineer in the automotive industry.

However, he felt from the beginning that the rural town into which he was born was inadequate for fulfilling his dream of an engineering career.

After having success on this small scale, Pagani visited Lamborghini and met with the company's chief technical director Giulio Alfieri.

Pagani borrowed the capital to buy his own autoclave late in 1987 and then, in 1991, he broke away from the company and founded his own consultancy called Modena Design which continues to make carbon fiber composites for Formula One cars and clients like Daimler, Ferrari and Aprilia.

[3] The first car he produced was the Zonda, which took seven years to complete, followed by the Huayra, named after Huayra-tata, the god of the wind in Incan culture.