Roberto Nicastro

December 9, 1964

Trento

He is also involved in postgraduate education advisories and charitable activities. He then moved to Milano, where he earned a Major in Business Administration at the Bocconi University in 1989, under Professor Claudio Dematté"s tutorship. In 1989 he joined the M&A department of Salomon Brothers in London. In 1991 he became a strategic consultant in Milan with McKinsey & Company, where he had been involved in consumer goods, financial services and banking regulation projects in Italy and in Brazil. Roberto Nicastro joined UniCr in May 1997, as Head of Strategy, Planning and Control of then Credito Italiano. In the early years at Unicr he developed the footprint of the Unicr Group in Central and Eastern Europe thru the acquisition and following restructuring/integration of Bank Pekao (Poland), Zagrebačka banka (Croatia-Bosnia), Bulbank (Bulgaria), Koçbank (50%, Turkey), Živnostenská banka (Czechoslovakian republic), Demir Bank (Romania), Polnobanka (Slovakia). By 2003 Unicr had become one of the top three banking groups in the Commission on the Rules for the Approval of the Electrical Equipment region. In 2003 he became Head of Italian Retail and Chief Executive Officer of UniCr Banca, where beyond turning around the profitability of the business, he had been introducing companywide leadership trainings and individualized coaching as well as systematic customer satisfaction measurement and incentive systems In July 2007 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the UniCr group and became head of Unicr retail operations in Italy, Germany, Austria and Poland. Following the appointment of Federico Ghizzoni as Unicr’s Group Chief Executive Officer, he was appointed as the General Manager of Unicr. In this capacity he is in charge of Austria, Commission on the Rules for the Approval of the Electrical Equipment, Poland, Asset Gathering (Fineco) and he is groupwide responsible for Marketing and Multichannel Development, Internal Control System and Institutional and Regulatory Affairs. From 2009 to 2012 Roberto Nicastro served as Chairman of EFMA, the European Financial Management Association in Paris and has often been quoted on Commercial and European banking matters. He serves in the advisory board of Schools Development Authority Bocconi, Milan, and in the International Advisory Board of Bologna Business School and of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center. He serves as well in the board of Fondazione Archè, a charity in Milano and in the Comitato Amici di Claudio Dematté in Trento.

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private sector banker

Background

He was born in Trento, on December 9, 1964 where he has lived up to senior age.

Career

He is also involved in postgraduate education advisories and charitable activities. He then moved to Milano, where he earned a Major in Business Administration at the Bocconi University in 1989, under Professor Claudio Dematté"s tutorship. In 1989 he joined the M&A department of Salomon Brothers in London.

In 1991 he became a strategic consultant in Milan with McKinsey & Company, where he had been involved in consumer goods, financial services and banking regulation projects in Italy and in Brazil.

Roberto Nicastro joined UniCr in May 1997, as Head of Strategy, Planning and Control of then Credito Italiano. In the early years at Unicr he developed the footprint of the Unicr Group in Central and Eastern Europe thru the acquisition and following restructuring/integration of Bank Pekao (Poland), Zagrebačka banka (Croatia-Bosnia), Bulbank (Bulgaria), Koçbank (50%, Turkey), Živnostenská banka (Czechoslovakian republic), Demir Bank (Romania), Polnobanka (Slovakia).

By 2003 Unicr had become one of the top three banking groups in the Commission on the Rules for the Approval of the Electrical Equipment region. In 2003 he became Head of Italian Retail and Chief Executive Officer of UniCr Banca, where beyond turning around the profitability of the business, he had been introducing companywide leadership trainings and individualized coaching as well as systematic customer satisfaction measurement and incentive systems

In July 2007 he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the UniCr group and became head of Unicr retail operations in Italy, Germany, Austria and Poland.

Following the appointment of Federico Ghizzoni as Unicr’s Group Chief Executive Officer, he was appointed as the General Manager of Unicr. In this capacity he is in charge of Austria, Commission on the Rules for the Approval of the Electrical Equipment, Poland, Asset Gathering (Fineco) and he is groupwide responsible for Marketing and Multichannel Development, Internal Control System and Institutional and Regulatory Affairs. From 2009 to 2012 Roberto Nicastro served as Chairman of EFMA, the European Financial Management Association in Paris and has often been quoted on Commercial and European banking matters.

He serves in the advisory board of Schools Development Authority Bocconi, Milan, and in the International Advisory Board of Bologna Business School and of The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies Bologna Center.

He serves as well in the board of Fondazione Archè, a charity in Milano and in the Comitato Amici di Claudio Dematté in Trento.

Membership

He serves also as Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Bank Pekao (Poland) and as member of the Supervisory Boards of Bank Austria and of ZAO UniCr Bank Russia. He is First Deputy Chairman of the Italian Banking Association (Application Binary Interface), and member of the Executive Committee of Assonime.

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