Alessandro Skarabot

• Starting from September 2019, allocated to Group Strategic Planning and in staff to the Group Head of Strategic Planning, maintaining all previous tasks and also delving into ALM/SAA and Asset Management topics.

• Managing the Investment Portfolio Planning unit ('ODS 9/2014') in charge of coordinating and implementing all the different activities involved in the Strategic Plan related to Group General Account Investments portfolio, from Financial Scenarios and Alternative & Private Assets bespoke assumptions to New Money reinvestment, Portfolio and P&L Investment KPIs, by interacting with all the different stakeholders involved in the process: Group ALM/SAA, Group Strategic Planning, LCIOs / LIMs and Group Asset Managers.
• Contributing to the Group Investment Committee by providing analysis on Investment Planning related topics such as portfolio’s reinvestment assumptions, investment income sensitivity analysis and overview of planned strategies embedded in the Strategic Plan.
• Attending the Local Investment Committees and Deep Dive on Investment meetings with BUs LCIOs / LIMs and LCFOs / Finance.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Development of a comprehensive reporting to GCFO and Group Head of Strategic Planning on Investments Plan (2020)
• Implementation in Tagetik (the Group’s tool for Forecast & Plan) of a brand-new section on BUs reinvestment assumptions embedded in the Strategic Plan (2020)
• Development of a comprehensive dashboard on Actual Asset Allocation, Portfolio and Investment Kpis integrating also Strategic Plan’s metrics of Investment Planning for GCFO and Group Head of Strategic Planning (2020)
• Active contribution to the definition of the Strategic Plan 2018-21 on Investment & Asset Management stream
• On-boarding of the Asian Regional Investment Planning team into HO Investment Planning best practices (2017)
• Design and cascading of GCIO Investment KPIs targets through the Investment, Asset & Wealth Management BU (2016)
• Development of a comprehensive reporting to GCIO and Group Investment Committee on Investments Plan (2016)
• Set up of the first community of Group Investment Management professionals dealing with Investment Planning, whose prominent outcome is the Manual for Investments Plan included in the Group Strategic Planning Manual for BUs (2016)
• Design of a template to steer the Investment Planning cycle in order to provide a preliminary snapshot of the Investment Plan (New money, capital gains and impairments) to GCIO prior to the official upload of the BUs in Tagetik (2014)

• Team leader within ALM & Investment Risk of Generali Head Office Investment Management Department in charge of the preparation of the Earnings Call and Investor Day Q&A package for GCIO and relevant analysis on Group Investments (ie. portfolio analysis, ALM and duration mismatch, relevant exposures and P&L impacts of selected strategies).
• Key Accomplishments:
• Q&A package on Group Investments for GCIO in preparation to Earnings Call and Investor Day

• Professional and then middle-manager dealing with insurance portfolios and mark-to-market funds performance measurement and attribution, risk-adjusted returns, portfolio analysis and investment risk.
• Key Accomplishment:
• Brand-new automated performance measurement and risk-adjusted returns developed in SAS SW / DW
• MBA Degree thesis on “The Structure of Interest rates”

• Design of a Digital Signal Processing algorithm and related integrated circuit implementation (FPGA technology).
• Key Accomplishment:
• Algorithm design and FPGA implementation
• “FPGA architecture for a Videowall image processor” (Photonics West 2001; Proc. SPIE 4304)

Digital Signal Processing Master Degree thesis: design of algorithms for digital signal processing.

Key Accomplishment:

· Research & Development of new image processing algorithms for Videowall visualization

· “Image Sequence Processing for Videowall visualization” (Photonics West 2000; Proc. SPIE 3961)