| Gerardo Braggiotti | |
| Birth Date: | c. 1953 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Occupation: | Banker |
| Known For: | Former Deputy Chairman of Lazard, Chief Executive Officer of Gruppo Banca Leonardo |
| Alma Mater: | Sciences Po (Paris, France), University of Milan (PhD in Law) |
| Children: | 2 daughters |
Gerardo Braggiotti (born c. 1953) is an Italian banker. A former Deputy Chairman of Lazard, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Gruppo Banca Leonardo.
Gerardo Braggiotti was born circa 1953,[1] to Enrico Braggiotti, born in Turkey to an ancient Venetian family that had moved to the Ottoman Empire, and Magda Ester de Portu, born in Paris to a Levantine family of Sephardic origin. He graduated from Sciences Po in Paris, France.[1] He received a PhD in Law from the University of Milan.[1] He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.[1]
Braggiotti began his career at General Electric, an American energy corporation, in Milan, Italy.[1] He then worked for Arthur Andersen, an American accounting firm, in London for four years.[1] Later, he worked at Mediobanca, an Italian investment bank, for fifteen years.[1] He joined Lazard in 1998,[1] and was its Deputy Chairman until 2005.[2] [3]
Since 2006,[1] he has been the Chief Executive Officer of Gruppo Banca Leonardo.[4] In 2015, he sold Banca Leonardo to the US investment firm Houlihan Lokey,[5] who in turn sold it to Crédit Agricole in 2017.[6] [7] In 2017, he launched the equity fund Sprint Italy.[8]
In February 2019, he became Goldman Sachs' country advisor for Italy.[9]
He is married and has two daughters.[1]