Future of Finance – Milan

Marco Tronchetti Provera

Executive Vice Chairman

Pirelli

Chief Executive Officer since 1992 Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer since 20 October 2015 Executive Vice Chairman since 3 August 2023 Born in 1948. Degree in Economics and Business Administration from Bocconi University of Milan, 1971. Developed sea transport business for family company beginning in the early seventies. Entered Pirelli in 1986 as general partner (socio accomandatario). Took over operational leadership of the Pirelli Group in 1992 of which he is currently executive vice chairman. Chairman of “Il Sole 24 Ore” from December 1996 to September 2001 and Board Member of “Teatro alla Scala” from October 2001 to September 2005. Chairman of Telecom Italia S.p.A. from September 2001 to September 2006, Director of Mediobanca - Banca di Credito Finanziario S.p.A from October 1996 to April 2002 (Director and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors from May 2007 to October 2017) and Director of Banca Commerciale Italiana/Intesa BCI from November 1999 to April 2002. Up to May 2013 he was Chairman of Prelios S.p.A.. Currently Chairman of: Marco Tronchetti Provera & C. S.p.A. - holding indirectly about 26.4% of Pirelli & C. S.p.A. - Camfin S.p.A., Camfin Alternative Assets S.r.l. and Longmarch Holding S.r.l.. Director of RCS MediaGroup S.p.A.. Honorary Co-Chairman for the Italian branch of the Council for the United States and Italy, of which he has been Italian Co-Chairman for 15 years. Member of General Council and the Advisory Board of Assolombarda as well as the General Council of Confindustria. Board Member of Bocconi University of Milan.

Andrea Orcel

CEO

UniCredit Group

Andrea Orcel began his career in 1987 at Midland Montagu in Fixed Income. In 1988 he moved to Goldman Sachs and in 1990 he joined The Boston Consulting Group. From 1992 to 2012, Andrea worked for Merrill Lynch (then Bank of America), with a number of senior positions: Executive Chairman of the Investment Bank and President of Emerging Markets ex Asia (2009), President of International Global Banking, Securities & Wealth Management; Head of International Corporate and Investment Banking (2009), Head of Global Origination, President of EMEA Global Markets & Investment Banking and member of Merrill Lynch Management Committee (2007), Head of Origination and Co-President of Global Markets and Investment Banking for Europe, Middle East & Africa (2004), Head of Global Financial Institutions Group (2003), Co-Head of Financial Institutions Group for Europe, Middle East & Africa (1999). In 2012, Andrea joined UBS as a Member of the Group Executive Board and then President, Investment Bank; then CEO, UBS Limited and UBS AG London Branch (2014); Member of the Board of UBS Americas Holding LLC, senior contact for US industry regulators and Senior Officer Outside of Australia and senior contact for Australia industry regulators (2016). He was also a Member of the Board of UBS Optimus Foundation, Senior Sponsor and Leader for Diversity and Talent Development in the Investment Bank and the UK. On 15th April 2021, Andrea Orcel was appointed Group Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit. On 6th July 2022, Andrea Orcel was appointed Head of Italy in addition to his role as Group Chief Executive Officer, while later that month he was appointed as Chairman of the UniCredit Foundation by its board. In December 2023, Andrea Orcel was appointed Chairman of HypoVereinsbank - UniCredit Bank GmbH.

Riccardo Barbieri Hermitte

Director General of the Treasury

Ministry of Economy and Finance

Dr. Riccardo Barbieri Hermitte was appointed Director General of the Treasury in January 2023. In his position, Dr. Barbieri oversees the management of public debt, banking and financial sector policies, macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, the drafting of official economic and fiscal policy documents, European economic and financial relations, and international financial relations, including multilateral developments banks, the IMF and the OECD. Dr. Barbieri is the Deputy of the Economy and Finance Minister at the G7, G20 and IMF-World Bank Meetings, and a member of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) and the Euro Working Group of the European Union, as well as of the Board of Directors of the European Stability Mechanism. He is the chair of the SCIMF sub-committee of the EFC, which coordinates the EU position vis-à-vis the IMF. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (Italy’s national development bank). Dr. Barbieri started his career as an academic economist at Bocconi University in Milan, where he previously graduated with honors in Economics and Social Sciences, and subsequently studied and worked at New York University, U.S.A., where he earned a Ph.D. in Economics. He then had a twenty-five-year career in the financial markets, with the longest stints at JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Mizuho, before joining the Italian Treasury as Chief Economist in August 2015.

Tyrone Cooney

Partner, European Direct Lending

Ares Management

Tyrone is a Partner in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on European direct lending and covers the French and Southern European markets. He serves as a member of Ares Credit Group's European Direct Lending Investment Committee and the Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2009, Tyrone was a Managing Director at HSBC France, where he focused on managing the Paris leveraged finance team. Previously, he was a Director with the Paris-based teams of Barclays Capital, The Royal Bank of Scotland and Societe Generale. Tyrone holds a B.A., summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Political Science and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics in Economics. He has additionally completed graduate coursework at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

James Seppala

Senior Managing Director, Head of Real Estate

Blackstone

James Seppala is the Chairman of Blackstone Europe and the Head of Real Estate Europe. Based in London, he joined Blackstone in 2011. Prior to Blackstone, Mr. Seppala was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he spent 10 years focused on equity and debt investment opportunities in Europe and the United States on behalf of Goldman Sachs’s real estate private equity group. Mr. Seppala graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2001. Mr. Seppala currently serves as Chairman of BEPIF. He also serves on the Imperial College Council, the Imperial College Endowment Board, the advisory board of the Academy of Real Assets, is a governor of the John Lyon's Foundation, and serves on the European Advisory Board of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School.

Claudia Parzani

Chair

Borsa Italiana

Business lawyer, specialized in corporate matters and corporate governance, strategy and sustainability, Claudia Parzani is a Senior Advisor at the global law firm Linklaters, where she was a partner and covered key managerial roles at a global level. She gained experience working with Italian and international law firms, assisting Italian and international banks and corporates in the context of the most complex extraordinary transactions. She is also Chair of the Italian Stock Exchange, a Senior Advisor at Brunswick, and non-executive director at Stellantis N.V. In the past, she was Deputy Chair of Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., Chair of Allianz S.p.A., served as an external member of the Board of Directors of the higher education institution Politecnico di Milano and covered the role of non-executive director for listed and not listed companies. Always extremely passionate about social matters, Claudia is a member of the advisory board of UNHCR Italy, sits in the Comitato Scientifico of Parks – Liberi e Uguali and is the Chair of the Strategic Council of Fondazione Italia per il Dono. She is the founder of “Breakfast@Linklaters”, a large network of female executives, and is the ambassador in Italy for the Inspiring Girls campaign to promote inclusion and fight stereotypes. She was Chair of Valore D and, together with Valore D and other partners, she structured and launched “In The Boardroom”, preparing women to step into board positions. Claudia is also Chair of the Scientific Committee of Fondazione Politecnico di Milano and Deputy Chair of the Italian group of the Trilateral Commission. She is also a member of some of the most influential national and international think tanks and of some of the main associations of the Italian business community. She is often a speaker in conferences and roundtables on topics such as corporate governance, ESG, economy and finance, leadership, future scenarios, innovation, world of work, D&I, talent, young people and generations.

Jean-Paul Zammitt

President and Management Committee Member

Bloomberg

Jean-Paul (JP) Zammitt is President of Bloomberg Bloomberg LP and is a member of the Bloomberg LP Management Committee. Over his more than 20-year career with Bloomberg, Mr. Zammitt has worked in management roles across Sales, Product Development, Strategy and Operations. He currently oversees all aspects of the company's Financial Solutions business. This includes the Bloomberg Terminal, as well as comprehensive and integrated enterprise solutions across buy- and sell-side workflows. He also serves as a non-executive director of Bloomberg Trading Facility, Ltd. (BTFL) and Bloomberg Index Services, Ltd. (BISL). Under his leadership, Bloomberg's Financial Solutions business has grown to 325,000+ paid subscribers who depend on Bloomberg technology and data to navigate the global markets and manage risk. Founded in 1981, Bloomberg brought transparency to the financial markets long before the popularization of PCs and the internet. Now more than three decades on, Bloomberg remains at the cutting edge of innovation, delivering indispensable news, data, analytics and trading tools. Prior to joining Bloomberg in 1998, Mr. Zammitt worked as a fixed-income and derivatives broker in London. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Business Economics from the London School of Economics, and speaks fluent Italian. Over his more than 20-year career with Bloomberg, Mr. Zammitt has worked in management roles across Sales, Product Development, Strategy and Operations. He has previously been accountable for all aspects of the Bloomberg Professional® Services, including the Bloomberg Terminal and enterprise-level solutions for data, trading, analytics and risk management. He serves as a nonexecutive director of Bloomberg Trading Facility, Ltd. (BTFL) and Bloomberg Index Services, Ltd. (BISL). Mr. Zammitt is a London School of Economics (LSE) alumni.

Caio Gattai

Sales Manager for Southern Europe

Bloomberg

Caio Gattai has over 15 years of experience at Bloomberg, where he has led several sales teams across Latin America and Iberia. He currently serves as Sales Manager for Southern Europe, overseeing strategy and execution to drive growth and strengthen client partnerships in the region. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Caio worked as an analyst in the wealth management division of Banque Safdie, where he gained valuable experience in financial analysis and client advisory. He holds a degree in Business Management from Insper (Brazil, 2009), which included an exchange program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an MBA focused on Managing Sales Force from Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil, 2016).

Simona Delle Chiaie

Chief Euro Economist

Bloomberg

Simona Delle Chiaie is the Chief Euro-Area Economist at Bloomberg Economics. Before joining Bloomberg, she worked for more than 15 years in the Eurosystem, serving as Principal Economist at the European Central Bank and Head of the International Macroeconomic Section at the Banque de France. She holds a PhD in Economics, and her research has appeared in peer-reviewed journals.

Alessandra Migliaccio

Moderator

Bloomberg News

Alessandra Migliaccio covers Western European economics and policy making for global news agency Bloomberg News. She has over 20 years experience in international journalism and media communication and spent 7 years as head of Bloomberg's Rome bureau providing economic, financial and political news to corporate clients, central bankers and financial institutions in 127 countries across the world. A graduate of the London School of Economics, she began her career at Dow Jones Newswires and then Class CNBC TV and has also worked at the Italian Finance Ministry and MTS bond market. Her articles have been published in a wide range of media from Business Week to the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and International Herald Tribune.

Francine Lacqua

Anchor & Editor-at-Large

Bloomberg TV

Francine Lacqua is an award-winning London-based anchor for Bloomberg Television. She co-anchors the weekday 3-hour daily program “Bloomberg Surveillance” with Tom Keene, where she provides insight on foreign policy, global markets and the top business stories of the day. She also presents “Leaders with Lacqua,” a special series where she sits down with top CEOs, entrepreneurs and public figures. Since joining Bloomberg in 2000, Lacqua has covered the World Economic Forum in Davos, IMF in Washington, G20 meetings, the EU Leaders Summit and OPEC. She also led Bloomberg Television’s coverage of the Italian and French elections where she was one of the first international reporters to interview cabinet members. While at Bloomberg, Lacqua has interviewed high-profile figures such as French President Emmanuel Macron, former UK Prime Minister David Cameron, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, Billionaire financier George Soros and ECB President Mario Draghi. She has also interviewed finance ministers from South Korea, Russia, France, Mexico, Italy and Greece, as well as moderating televised debates from the World Economic Forum in Davos and the European Economic Governance package. In 2013 Lacqua won ‘International TV Personality of the Year’ at the AIB Media Awards. She was previously nominated in 2009 and 2010. In 2012, she was part of the Bloomberg team that won the OPEC award for ‘Public Interest Reporting’. She has an LLB in English law from King’s College in London and earned her undergraduate degree at the Sorbonne. She is fluent in French and Italian.

Tommaso Ebhardt

Southern Europe Managing Editor

Bloomberg News

Tommaso Ebhardt is the Southern Europe Managing Editor at Bloomberg News. Ebhardt started his Bloomberg career as a TV anchor in 2005 before shifting into reporting in 2009 covering the automotive industry in Italy, and then later becoming a senior reporter focused on Italian business dynasties. He's the author of two biographies -- 'Sergio Marchionne' in 2019 and 'Leonardo Del Vecchio' in 2022 -- which together sold more than 100,000 copies. In May, he published an updated version of his book on Marchionne looking at the long-term the legacy of the former Fiat and Ferrari boss. He still plays rugby and strums the ukulele with his kids.

Chiara Albanese

Italy Bureau Chief

Bloomberg News

Chiara Albanese is Italy bureau chief at Bloomberg News. She co-hosts the podcast 'Quello che i soldi non dicono' with Tommaso Ebhardt, and has written a book about Italian politics.