 Deputy CEO - Head of CIB & PB Strategic Business AreaSergio Ermotti was born in Lugano (Switzerland) on 11th May 1960.
He is a Swiss Certified Banking Expert (Master/Federal Diploma) and a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Oxford University.
He began his career as an apprentice with Corner Bank SA in Lugano. After becoming a trader there, he moved to Citibank NA in Zurich in 1985, where he traded equity-linked products and was promoted to the rank of Resident Vice President.
He joined Merrill Lynch & Co. in Zurich as a Vice President in 1987 to establish and manage the Swiss Franc capital markets business in Switzerland.
In 1993, he was named Managing Director and moved to London to become head of European Equity Derivatives.
In 1996 he was named Head of Global Equity Derivatives based in New York.
From 1997 to 1999 he served as Head of Global Equity Linked Products. From 1998 he was also a member of the Executive Management Committee for Europe, Middle East and Africa based in London.
From 1999 to 2001 he served as head of Equity Markets for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, responsible for the firm's regional equity businesses.
Between 2001 and 2003 he served, with the title of Senior Vice President, as co-head of Global Equity Markets with responsibility for the firm's equity markets activities globally, including trading, underwriting and sales of all equity and equity-linked securities and equity financing & services and as a member of the Executive Management Committee for Global Markets & Investment Banking he also joined Merrill Lynch & Co.'s Operating Committee.
In December 2005 he joined UniCredit as Head of Markets & Investment Banking Division. In July 2007 he was nominated Group Deputy Chief Executive Officer of UniCredit Group with responsibility of the strategic areas Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) and Private Banking. |
