(Finance) – Luca Bonansea, from next December 1st, will be the new Director of the Private Banking & Wealth Management Division of BNL BNP Paribas. He takes over from Isabella Fumagalli, who has expressed the need to take advantage of a sabbatical period. Gianluca Almi, current Client Service Center Director within the Commercial Network of BNL BNP Paribas, will replace Luca Bonansea at the helm of the Retail Banking Division.
Bonansea, from Turin, 53 years old, he is currently Head of the Retail Banking Division of BNL, which he joined in 2008, after previous managerial experiences in the retail and corporate banking sector. He was Territorial Director of North West BNL and then moved to General Management as Head of the Retail and Private Network and later Director of Commercial Banking. Graduated in Political Science at the University of Turin, he holds a Masters in Executive Management at HEC Paris.
“I am sure that Luca Bonansea will be able to give further impetus to the ‘private’ and ‘wealth’ business in Italy, seizing the potential of this dynamic market” – she said Anne Pointet, Deputy CEO of BNP Paribas Wealth Management –. “We are ready to pursue new goals together by making our strength available as the leading private bank in the Eurozone and our globally recognized expertise in customer-centric services.”
Elena Goitini, Chief Executive Officer of BNL and Head of the BNP Paribas Group in Italy commented: “Luca is a highly experienced manager and will be able to combine market knowledge and the strengths of the BNP Paribas Groupleading the path of development and innovation of Private Banking and Wealth Management in a complex context but full of opportunities”.