Born in Siena (Italy) on 27 April 1966

Work experience

February 2022-
Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob)
Commissioner

December 2011 – February 2022
Promontory Financial Group (Unit of IBM Consulting)
Managing Director
CEO Promontory Italy and COO Promontory Europe (June 2020 – February 2022)
Directeur Général Promontory France (December 2011 – May 2020)

2011
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) - Paris
Acting Secretary General – Senior advisor to the Chairman

2003 – 2010
Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) - Parigi
Secretary General (2008-2010)
Deputy to the Secretary General and Director for Markets and Intermediaries (2003 – 2007)

2002
European Commission – DG Internal Market – Brussels
Seconded National Expert

2001
European Central Bank - Frankfurt
Seconded Expert

1999 - 2007
University of Siena
Faculty of Economics – Annual courses of Commercial Law
Faculty of Law – Seminars on “La Consob”

1998 – 2002
FESCO – CESR (Rome – Paris)
Member of the Secretariat of FESCO/CESR

1997 – 2002
Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob) - Roma
Officer – International Relations Office

1994 – 1996
Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (Consob) - Milano
Officer – Financial Intermediaries Division

Education

1992 - 1995
PhD in Securities and Banking Law University of Siena (Italy)
Thesis on “Legal aspects of Swaps Contracts”

1992
SDA Bocconi Milano
Post-Graduate course on finance.

1991
Università di Torino
Master on International trade Law

1991
University of Siena
University Degree in Economics and Banking (cum laude)
Thesis on Commercial law: “The authorization regime of banks and other financial intermediaries”

1989
Catholic University of Louvain - Louvain la Neuve (Belgium)
Erasmus (6 months): exams of macro and micro-economics

Certified Accountant (since 1992)
Participates as speaker in many conferences and seminars.
Numerous publications in the fields of securities, commercial and company law.

Languages: Italian, mother tongue; English and French excellent; German and Spanish basic