Societe Generale Corporate & Investment Banking announces the appointment of Mario Cortesi as Head of Global Finance for Italy. Based in Milan, Mario reports to Jean-Luc Parer, Global Head of Finance and his deputies Jean-Francois Mazaud, Pierre Palmieri and David Coxon. He also reports to Giovanni Ortolani, Chief Country Officer for Italy.
Mario will be responsible for strengthening the Global Finance activity for the bank in Italy, which offers issuers capital raising, financing and hedging activities.
Before joining the bank, and over his 17-year investment banking career, Mario Cortesi has held a number of senior roles in London at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup in the Capital Markets and Structured Finance divisions. He has been leading teams responsible for both originating and executing transactions with Southern-European clients. Mario has been based in London for the last 12 years and before then was in Milan, where he started his career at Akros Finanziaria SpA.
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