Bella Italia. Boris Collardi has added another mandate to his growing portfolio with a certain appetite for Italian companies.
Former Julius Baer CEO and briefly a partner at Geneva-based private bank Pictet, Boris Collardi has joined the board of directors and is a shareholder in the carmaker Ares Design, as the Swiss business magazine «Bilanz» (behind paywall, in German only) reports in its latest issue.
Ares, which operates a showroom in downtown Zurich, is led by CEO Dany Bahar, formerly CEO of Lotus, having also worked for Ferrari and Red Bull. Another shareholder in Ares is former Denner CEO Philippe Gaydoul.
The CEO of Italy's ITA Airways, formerly Alitalia, Alfredo Altavilla, is also a co-owner and shareholder in Ares, which is based in Modena, Italy.
Banking and Football
After leaving Pictet in August 2021, Collardi has taken on a whole series of new mandates, as finews.com reported on various occasions. In April, he announced he would take a stake in Swiss private bank EFG International and seek a seat on its board of directors, with the annual general meeting scheduled in October 2022 for his confirmation. In May, Collardi became a partner and sponsor of the Italian soccer club US Lecce.
René de Picciotto, a Geneva banker, is already invested in US Lecce. In his career, he has, among other things, founded the asset manager Fransad Gestion, which was taken over by Julius Baer in 2015 when it was under the aegis of Collardi.
