Alessandro Profumo - Leonardo Spa CEO, Independent Director

Mr. Alessandro Profumo serves as Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of the Company. From July 2017 he is also Honorary President of AIAD, Federation of Italian Companies for Aerospace, the Defense and Security. He graduated with honors in Business Economics from the Universita Commerciale Luigi Bocconi. In 1977 he began working at Banco Lariano, where he remained for ten years. In 1987 he joined McKinsey Company where he deals with strategic and organizational projects for financial companies. In 1989 becomes, for Bain, Cuneo Associati, responsible for relations with financial institutions and integrated organization and development projects. In 1991 he left the business consulting sector to hold the position of Central Director responsible for the banking and parabanking sectors for the RAS Adriatic Reunion of Sure. He is also responsible for the company profitability development of credit of the group and of the distribution and management companies operating in the sector of the savings management. In 1994 he joined Credito Italiano where he was appointed Central CoDirector, with responsibility for planning and control group. A year later he held the position of General Manager and, in 1997, was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the UniCredit Group, a position he held until September 2010. Under his leadership the UniCredit Group becomes a player of European level, going from 15, 000 to over 162, 000 employees, with offices in 23 countries. In February 2012 he was appointed by the European Commissioner for the Internal Market and Services to be part of a group of European experts High Level Expert Group to assess the functioning of the banking sector in the European Union and to identify possible measures to reform the structure. Since April 2012 he was Chairman of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, a role he maintains until August 2015. In September 2015 he became a Director and Chairman of Equita SIM. since 2017.