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CAROLA DI CRESCENZO

Milan

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
2004
2004
years of post-secondary education

Work history

Head of Origination Business Corporate

Simest CDP
Milan
09.2024 - 01.2025
  • Led the origination unit for strategic investments in the international expansion of Italian PMIs, managing soft loans and equity solutions. Managed a team of 8
  • Oversaw end-to-end project selection, risk analysis, financial structuring, and stakeholder engagement to align with development mandates and mobilize public-private capital.

Project Manager

UN WFP
Rome
10.2023 - 09.2024
  • Managed global blended finance and project optimization initiatives across donor-funded UN programmes, including structuring bond issuances and financial facilities to support local SMEs in Africa.
  • Designed performance frameworks for sustainable finance and impact-driven capital allocation, aligning public-private capital with UN development goals.
  • Provided financial leadership in structuring innovative PPP-aligned partnerships with governments, DFIs, and multilaterals.

Structuring Consultant

Prosperise Capital
Milan
06.2023 - 08.2024
  • Structured a debt fund for SMEs, leading due diligence, financial modeling, and scenario planning to ensure robust credit risk assessment and capital adequacy, while negotiating capital partnership terms.

Head of Sale Southern Europe

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
London and Paris
09.2008 - 03.2022
  • Directed origination, structuring, and full lifecycle management of complex equity and fund derivatives transactions, ensuring financial soundness by collaborating closely with legal and compliance teams.
  • Managed a team of 5 professionals, driving performance and adherence to governance, risk management, and regulatory compliance across all transactions.
  • Built and maintained strategic relationships with CEOs, CIOs, and senior portfolio managers of leading asset managers, pension funds, insurers, and private banks to identify long-term investment opportunities and optimize capital allocation strategies.
  • Championed strong governance and risk mitigation practices, ensuring all transactions met internal controls and complied with evolving market regulations.

Equity Flow Derivatives Sales Southern Europe

Barclays Capital
London
01.2005 - 01.2008
  • Equity Derivatives Sales Trader across a diverse client base, including hedge funds, asset managers, and insurers, before being promoted in 2007 to lead Flow Derivatives and ETF sales in Italy, expanding the client base and strengthening the firm's market presence.

Education

Master of Science - Economy of Innovation

Sussex University

Bachelor of Science - Political Economics

Università degli Studi di Pisa

Languages

Italian
English
Spanish

Timeline

Head of Origination Business Corporate

Simest CDP
09.2024 - 01.2025

Project Manager

UN WFP
10.2023 - 09.2024

Structuring Consultant

Prosperise Capital
06.2023 - 08.2024

Head of Sale Southern Europe

Bank of America Merrill Lynch
09.2008 - 03.2022

Equity Flow Derivatives Sales Southern Europe

Barclays Capital
01.2005 - 01.2008

Bachelor of Science - Political Economics

Università degli Studi di Pisa

Master of Science - Economy of Innovation

Sussex University

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