Alessandro Profumo

Alessandro Profumo (2012)

Alessandro Profumo (born February 17, 1957 in Genoa ) is an Italian manager and current CEO of Leonardo . Alessandro Profumo was CEO of the major Italian bank Unicredit from 1995-2010 and played a key role in the consolidation of the Italian banking sector.

Life

Alessandro Profumo was the youngest of five sons in an entrepreneurial family. He spent his childhood in Palermo until he was 13 and moved to Milan with his parents in 1970 .

He completed his studies in economics at the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi in Milan and graduated in 1987 with a degree in business administration .

Alessandro Profumo started working for Banco Lariano in 1977 at the age of 20. In 1987, the manager switched to the management consultancy McKinsey & Company in the financial sector as a consultant . In 1989 he switched to the Boston management consultancy Bain & Company . In 1991 he moved to the board of directors of Riunione Adriatica di Sicurtà , a Milan insurance company that belongs to the Allianz group. As Direttore Centrale (General Manager), he was responsible for banking and para-banking activities.

When RAS acquired a 5% stake in the recently privatized Credito Italiano and then the second largest Italian bank at the time , Alessandro Profumo first took over the seat on the bank's board of directors as Condirettore Centrale ( Deputy General Manager ) for strategic corporate planning and control One year later as Director General ( Chief General Manager ). He was appointed Amministratore Delegato ( Chief Executive Officer - CEO) in 1997, making him the youngest head of a major Italian bank at the age of 40 .

Under his leadership, the UniCredit Group has developed into one of the most profitable banks in Italy and one of the largest banking groups in Europe after a number of acquisitions and restructurings . The owners of the UniCredit Group confirmed Profumo in 2009 with the extension of his term of office.

During his time as CEO, the manager has held other offices in the financial services industry to this day : since 2002 he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Mediobanca SpA, a subsidiary of the UniCredit Group . In 2007 he resigned from his supervisory board mandate at Deutsche Börse AG due to the threat of a conflict of interest between his mandate in Frankfurt and the role of the bank as a major shareholder of the new London-Milan stock exchange . From 2005 (takeover by UniCredit Group in 2005) to January 2009 (completion of the integration) Profumo was chairman of the supervisory board at Bayerische Hypo- und Vereinsbank AG . He has been Chairman of the Supervisory Board of UniCredit Bank Austria AG (formerly Bank-Austria Creditanstalt; takeover by the UniCredit Group from HVB in 2005) since 2006.

After criticizing the bank's commitment to Libya , Profumo resigned as CEO of the Unicredit Group in 2010. At the beginning of 2012 he became CEO of the third largest bank in Italy, Monte dei Paschi di Siena . Since May 2017 he has headed Leonardo SpA , the largest Italian technology company.

Activities in business as well as memberships

Offices in business, international organizations and non-profit organizations:

• UniCredit Group (UniCredit SpA) (Italy) - Chief Executive Officer until September 2010
• UniCredit Bank Austria AG ( Austria ) - Chairman of the Supervisory Board until September 2010
• Mediobanca SpA (Italy) - Board member until September 2010
• European Banking Federation ( Brussels ) - Board member and President
• International Monetary Conference ( Washington ) - Vice President
• (ABI Associazione Bancaria Italiana ) - Member of the Board of Directors and Board of Directors
• Fondazione Teatro alla Scala ( Milan ) - Board member
• Università Luigi Bocconi ( Milan ) - Member of the Board of Directors
• Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro (Italy) - Director
• Olimpia consultant
• Harvard Business School European Advisory Board ( Boston ) - Member of the Management Committee
• World Economic Forum ( Zurich ) - Member of the Advisory Board
• Fondazione Cav. Lav. Udo Foscolo Gia 'Presidente del Banco di Roma - Member of the Board of Directors

Memberships:

• European Financial Service Round Table ( London )
• The Steering Committee of " The Group of Thirty " ( New York )
• Assonime Steering Committee ( Rome )
• Trilateral Commision (Italy)
• Investment Advisory Council for Turkey ( Istanbul )
• IIEB Institut International d'Études Bancaires ( Brussels )
• IMC International Monetary Conference ( USA )

Fonts

• with Giovanni Moro : Plus Valori . Baldini & Castoldi, 2003.

Honors and prizes

• 2007 CNBC European Business Leader of 2007
• 2004 Cavaliere del Lavoro of the Republic of Italy
• 2002 European Banker of the Year 2002
• 1998 Bocconi graduate of the year

literature

• Italian star banker in battle of retreat . In: The world

Web links

• Alessandro Profumo ( Memento of January 17th, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Italian Stock Exchange
• Alessandro Profumo in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Supervisory Board elections CV Alessandro Profumo ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 257 kB) Bank Austria
• Speaker Alessandro Profumo ( Memento of June 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) OECD
• Alessandro Profumo ( Memento from August 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Enotes International Business Biography
• Number one in Milan . In: FAZ
• Alessandro Profumo - consistent reformer . ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) The bank
• Italy's Alexander the Great . ( Memento of March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Europolitan
• I am a person but also a manager . ( Memento from May 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Süddeutsche Zeitung
• Alessandro Profumo . Southgerman newspaper
• We need European champions . Manager magazine
• Banks of petrified forest . In: Wirtschaftswoche
• Answers Alessandro Profumo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leonardo: Management ( Memento from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Profumo and Rampl confirmed in office . Manager magazine
3. ↑ Profumo leaves the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Börse . Handelsblatt
4. ↑ Manager magazine Profumo goes Ermotti comes
5. ↑ Alessandro Profumo is the new Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BA-CA ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ UniCredit boss Profumo submits resignation . NZZ , September 2010.
7. ↑ Monte dei Paschi di Siena Bank - Alessandro Profumo, Chairman ( English ) mps.it. Archived from the original on April 25, 2013. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
8. ↑ CNBC European Business Leader of 2007 ( Memento of June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )