Carlo Appetiti appointed Chief of CEO Staff and Chief Transformation Officer of Cassa Centrale Banca
The manager has over thirty years' experience in the financial sector and has held roles of increasing responsibility in prominent national and international banking groups.
Trento, 19.01. 2024 - As of 1 February, Carlo Appetiti will join Cassa Centrale Banca's top management, taking on the new role of Chief of CEO Staff and Chief Transformation Officer reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer, Sandro Bolognesi.
The manager has over thirty years' experience in the financial sector.
He initially developed his auditing skills at KPMG before assuming roles of increasing responsibility in banking, starting with Citigroup. Later, he built his process reengineering and transformation experience in the Intesa Group before going on to become Head of the Risk Management and Control Department in its Asset Management Division. In the Deutsche Bank AG Group, between 2005 and 2013, Carlo Appetiti was responsible for implementing innovative and Compliance projects, reaching the position of Country Head of Compliance for Italy and Southern Europe. Between 2014 and 2020, he was Group Chief Compliance Officer at UniCredit, reporting directly to the Group CEO and coordinating transformation projects together with Anti Financial Crime activities and the related interactions with various local and international authorities.
Since March 2021, as Senior Advisor in the Boston Consulting Group, he has applied his soft skills to strategic consulting issues, supporting Senior Management and the Boards of Directors of various customers in the development and review of their Business models, together with identification and development of governance and control systems.
In July 2022, he became a Standing Auditor at BPER Banca, and in April 2023 he was also appointed as an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Bank Ukraine JSC, a subsidiary bank of Deutsche Bank AG.
Author and co-author of several publications and a speaker at various conferences, he is a Chartered Accountant, a certified Anti Money Laundering Specialist and an EFFAS-certified ESG Analyst.
Carlo Appetiti's appointment fulfils the Parent Company's intention of strengthening top management with a new change management figure capable of providing primary support in achieving the challenging objectives of the 2023-2026 Strategic Plan, cooperating with various Departments and Functions to implement the Group's strategic initiatives.