Grazia Orlandini, BPER Chief Investment Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Optima SIM (company dedicated to discretionary mandates).

Ms. Orlandini has twenty-year experience in the asset management industry.

After a period in leading italian asset management companies and research groups, including IMI-Fideuram (now Fideuram Asset Management), Orlandini worked for 14 years, until 2013, in Montepaschi Asset Management Group which later became Anima SGR, where she was strategist, portfolio manager and since 2005 Chief Investment Officer.

More recently, she held the position of Chief Executive Officer of a small Italian asset manager owned by a private equity fund.

Ms. Orlandini has a Bachelor and Master degree from Bocconi University, a specialization from Haas School of Berkeley University and she is a CFA charterholder.