Patrizia Verdesca
Head of Internal Audit Department
She is Head of the Internal Audit Department. After graduating in Business Economics from Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, specialising in the Economics of Financial Intermediaries, she completed the course in Auditing at the Management School of LUISS Guido Carli University. She holds the International Certification of Internal Auditor (CIA), as well as the certifications CRMA (Certification in Risk Management Assurance) and CRISC (Certification in Risk and Information System Control) and she is a member of the Finance Committee of the Italian Association of Internal Auditors (AIIA). After working for the audit firm Deloitte & Touche as an external auditor and consultant for financial companies, she joined UniCredit's Internal Audit department in 2001, where she assumed the role of Internal Audit manager for various Group companies. In 2017, she joined Fineco as Head of Internal Audit.