Gerardo Braggiotti (born c. 1953) is an Italian banker. A former Deputy Chairman of Lazard, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Gruppo Banca Leonardo.
Gerardo Braggiotti was born circa 1953, [1] to Enrico Braggiotti, born in Turkey to an ancient Venetian family that had moved to the Ottoman Empire, and Magda Ester de Portu, born in Paris to a Levantine family of Sephardic origin. He graduated from Sciences Po in Paris, France. [1] He received a PhD in Law from the University of Milan. [1] He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. [1]
Braggiotti began his career at General Electric, an American energy corporation, in Milan, Italy. [1] He then worked for Arthur Andersen, an American accounting firm, in London for four years. [1] Later, he worked at Mediobanca, an Italian investment bank, for fifteen years. [1] He joined Lazard in 1998, [1] and was its Deputy Chairman until 2005. [2] [3]
Since 2006, [1] he has been the Chief Executive Officer of Gruppo Banca Leonardo. [4] In 2015, he sold Banca Leonardo to the US investment firm Houlihan Lokey, [5] who in turn sold it to Crédit Agricole in 2017. [6] [7] In 2017, he launched the equity fund Sprint Italy. [8]
In February 2019, he became Goldman Sachs' country advisor for Italy. [9]
He is married and has two daughters. [1]
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