Andrea Cornetti

Following a period as a financial analyst with Imigest – IMI in Rome, he worked for Bear Stearns & Co. as a financial analyst in the Equity and Emerging Markets Research Department in New York.
Subsequently in PricewaterhouseCoopers he was employed in the chairman’s Staff in New York and Rome for two years, and he worked for several companies in project management roles gaining significant experience in a variety of industries. This led to his move to Deloitte Consulting as a project manager.

From 2007 to 2013 he worked in IdeA Fimit SGR as Business Development Director, where he coordinated business opportunities (real estate acquisitions, joint venture participations) and developed new products for the market both for retail and institutional investors. He managed the establishment of 10 funds with an overall AUM of more than 5bn€. There he was also in charge of the Fund Raising activities and relations with domestic and international investors (i.e. Pension Funds, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Insurance Companies, HNWI, etc.)

Since September 2013, in Prelios SGR, he managed the process for establishing 6 new funds, for a an overall AUM of around 1bn€, which represent, for 2014, almost one third of the overall market. Also, since his arrival in Prelios SGR, more than 20 new institutional large investors became shareholders of Funds managed by the SGR.