Paola Angeletti

Paola Angeletti is the Chief Operating Officer since January 2020. She graduated ‘cum laude’ in Economics at the Bocconi University in 1989. Before graduation, she spent a semester at the New York University and then began her working experience in the credit department of the Italian branch of a US commercial bank. After graduation, she worked in advisory and corporate finance in a consultancy firm and then in a UK investment bank. In 1994, she joined the Group as a Senior Investment Manager for the Merchant Banking Department of Mediocredito Lombardo and then within the Private Equity Department of IntesaBci. In 2002, she was appointed Head of Corporate Development in the Shareholdings Department of Banca Intesa.

From 2007 to 2014, within the General Secretariat of the Intesa Sanpaolo Supervisory Board, she was Head of the Unit with planning and technical support functions to the Board and its Committees (Strategy Committee, Remuneration Committee, Financial Statements Committee, Related Party Transactions Committee, Control Committee, Supervisory Body ex D.Lgs. 231/01). In 2015, she became Head of the M&A Department of Intesa Sanpaolo and, in this role, she completed a number of extraordinary transactions, disposals and acquisitions relating to banks, financial and operating companies in Italy and abroad. In 2018, she broadened her responsibility as Head of the Shareholdings Department.

In 2019, she became Head of the International Subsidiary Banks Division, coordinating 11 banks in Central-Eastern Europe and in North Africa, with 22,000 people, 1,000 branches and over 7 million customers. Over the years, she has been a Board Director of a number of companies of the Group engaged in leasing, consumer finance and banking.