Fabrizio Viola (born in 1958 in Rome) is an Italian banker.

Biography

Fabrizio Viola is a graduate in business administration from the

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

. From 1990 to 2011, he held various positions at the IMI Group, the Fondiaria Group and the

Banca Popolare di Vicenza Banca Popolare di Vicenza (BPVi) was an Italian bank and currently a winding-down company. The banking group along was the 15th-largest retail and corporate bank of Italy by total assets at 31 December 2016, according to Mediobanca. However, its si ...

. From 2004 to 2008, he was the CEO of the

Banca Popolare di Milano Banca Popolare di Milano S.p.A. also known as Bipiemme or just BPM is an Italian bank based in Milan, Lombardy. The bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Banco BPM. Banca Popolare di Milano S.c. a r.l., an urban area cooperative bank, was founded ...

. From May 2012 to 2016, he was the CEO and general manager of

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena S.p.A. (), known as BMPS or just MPS, is an Italian bank. Tracing its history to a mount of piety founded in 1472 () and established in its present form in 1624 (), it is the world's oldest or second oldest bank ...

, the oldest bank in the world. He was later employed by

as CEO and sister bank

Veneto Banca Veneto Banca S.p.A. is a former Italian bank headquartered in Montebelluna, Italy and currently a wind-down unit. The bank changed from a cooperative society to a limited company in December 2015. Following a failed stock market listing in June 2 ...

as director. After the banks were in liquidation, Viola was assigned as one of the liquidator. In February 2018, he became a senior advisor for the

Boston Consulting Group Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) is an American global management consulting firm founded in 1963 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. It is one of the Big Three (or MBB, the world’s three largest management consulting firms by rev ...

. Starting in 2015, he was under investigation for alleged false accounting and market manipulation during his tenure as CEO of Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. He 2020, he was found guilty of those charges.

References

Italian bankers Living people Italian chief executives 1958 births {{Italy-business-bio-stub