Team

Born in Milan in 1964, currently Chief Executive Officer of the company Focus Investments S.p.A.

Experience

Over the years, she has held positions in various companies such as Autogrill S.p.A., as Controller of the group’s strategic marketing general management; Prelios S.p.A. (formerly Pirelli Real Estate S.p.A.), initially as Head of Structured Finance and later as CFO. Within the Prelios group companies (among others), she has also held the position of director at Prelios Credit Servicing S.p.A. Over the years, she has held positions at Pirelli & C. S.p.A., including Head of Finance, overseeing the Financial Planning, M&A and Risk Management activities, most recently acting as Group Risk Officer. She joined the company Focus Investments S.p.A. in May 2017 as Chief Executive Officer.

Graduate in Business Administration at the “Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi” of Milan.

Mario Catanzaro graduated in Business and Economics from the Università Cattolica in Milan in 1996. After working for Cesma Srl and Gruppo Rinascente SpA, he joined Pirelli Real Estate (became Prelios SpA) in 2001, initially as the head of Planning and Control for service providers and then for the Group’s real estate SPVs, Funds and Non-performing Loans. With over 15 years’ experience, he has now taken on the role of Chief Financial Officer in Focus Investments SpA.

Antonella Fusta graduated in Business Economics from the Bocconi University in Milan in 1992. She began her career in 1993 with UTET SpA, then KPMG SpA and Foster Wheeler Italiana SpA. She joined Pirelli Real Estate (became Prelios SpA) in 1999 to work on financial statements, consolidated financial statements and taxation issues associated with the Group’s real estate vehicles, investment funds and service providers. She was appointed as Investment Manager for problem situations in 2014 and then also as the head of accounting and financial statements following the transfer to Focus SpA in 2016.

Marco Russo graduated in Business Administration from the Bocconi University in Milan in 1999 and in the same year he began his professional experience as a consultant within Arthur Andersen. His specialization in the real estate sector began in ACB Consulting as advisor for investments valuation and extraordinary operations and continued in Aedes S.p.a. as asset manager of a portfolio of opportunistic asset. After an experience in Finlombarda S.p.a., where he increased his competences in social housing and public policies and regulation, in 2018 Marco joined the Focus Investments team as Investment Manager for italian real estate SPV’s.