Raffaello Ruggieri

Raffaello Ruggieri is the Chief Lending Officer since January 2020.He started his professional career at IBM Italia, with the Quality and Re-engineering Department, before completing his Master’s degree in Business Administration, graduating summa cum laude. At IBM Italia he was involved in process innovation, in financings supporting technology innovation and in the introduction of ERP information systems. In 2003, he completed the Corporate Coaching Program with Coach U Italia, performing team building and executive coaching activities.

He joined the Group in 1999. While covering different roles and responsibilities, including Corporate Turnaround, Project & Industry Specialised Lending, Structured Finance, Investment Banking and Coverage of the main domestic and international clients, he was also in charge of several projects aiming at the strengthening of the capital structure of major clients, through Equity issues. From 1999 to 2002, he was part of the Banca Commerciale Italiana’s HR and Organisation team and was involved in several organizational projects, jointly with business teams, dealing also with the Comit-Intesa amalgamation.

From 2002 to 2005, he was involved in the most critical corporate turnarounds and in the international network reorganization, supporting directly the Head of the Investment Banking Division. From 2005 to 2009, he was part of the Financial Restructuring team within Intesa Sanpaolo, starting up the M&A activities and being involved in the most important Investment Banking and Structured Finance deals. From 2009 and 2011, he took care of the most important Corporate Restructuring projects within Banca IMI’s Structure Finance Unit. In 2015, he was given the responsibility for the International Structure Finance business of the Group after having been responsible for the Project & Industry Specialised Lending Italia team, from 2011, and for the international Project Finance business (London, New York and Hong Kong), from 2013.

In January 2018, he became responsible for the Global Corporate Department within the Corporate & Investment Banking Division, managing approximately 14,000 clients, both domestic and international, after having been in charge of the Corporate & Strategic Finance Business Unit within Banca IMI from 2016, with responsibility over the Investment Banking (Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, M&A) as well as the Structured Finance for Intesa Sanpaolo Group. From December 2015 to May 2017, he was a director of the Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori S.p.A. (Italo - NTV) Board.