Piero Luigi Montani

Chief Executive Officer of BPER Banca S.p.A. since April 2021, since August 2021 he has also held the position of General Manager.

He began his professional career in Credito Italiano where he held positions of increasing responsibility.

From July 1995 to August 1997 he was Chief Executive Officer of Credit Consult SIM S.p.A., a securities brokerage company of the UniCredit Group, which later merged into Fineco S.p.A.

From August 1997 to March 1999 he held the position of Co-General Manager of Rolo Banca 1473 with responsibility for administrative and accounting, legal, organizational and personnel services.

From March 1999 to July 2000 he held the position of General Manager and then was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Banca Popolare di Novara with the task of defining the merger with Banca Popolare di Verona.

From April 2002 to January 2003 he was General Manager of Banco Popolare di Verona e Novara.

Since February 2003 he has held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Banca Antonveneta S.p.A., where in January 2006, after the acquisition of the bank by ABN AMRO, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Steering Committee. In January 2007 he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President.

In July 2011 he joined Poste Italiane, with the role of manager, placed on the staff of the Chief Executive Officer, and then was seconded with the role of Chief Executive Officer in Mediocredito Centrale, an institution acquired by Poste to create, on the address of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Banca del Mezzogiorno.

In January 2012 he joined Banca Popolare di Milano as Managing Director with the task of developing a restructuring project aimed at reconfiguring relations between the company and employee organizations.

In October 2013 he took on the role of Chief Executive Officer of Banca Carige with the aim of preparing a new industrial plan of the Group aimed at the turnaround of the Genoese institution.

In the past he held the positions of Chairman of Multitel S.p.A.; Vice President of EuroPlus Research & Management, Deputy Chairman of Interbanca S.p.A. and Istituto Centrale delle Banche Popolari Italiane S.p.A. as well as Director of the Italian Banking Association (A.B.I.), Lloyd Adriatico S.p.A., Credito Bergamasco S.p.A., SO. GE. PO. S.G.R., of CA. RE. CE.SE. S.r.l., Credito Industriale Sammarinese S.A., HOPA S.p.A., Si-Holding S.p.A., Carta-Si S.p.A., Banca Akros S.p.A., Cassa di Risparmio di Savona S.p.A., Banca Cesare Ponti S.p.A. and Director and Member of the Management Committee of FITD - Fondo Interbancario di Tutela dei Depositi.

In May 2020 he was awarded by the President of the Italian Republic the honor of Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.