Matteo Patrone has over 20 years of experience in finance and industry. In 2008 he joined the Corporate Equity team of the EBRD where he was supervising equity transactions with a focus on Western Balkans, Poland and Russian Federation.

From October 2012 to July 2015 he was the Director of EBRD Resident Office in Serbia where the Bank has a portfolio of 2.4 Bn Eur.

Prior to the EBRD he was the Managing Director of the private equity arm of Finanziaria Internazionale, an Italian merchant bank, where he spent 10 years investing in a broad range of sectors.

Before that, he was a Senior Manager of Accenture Strategic Services in Milan and worked as project engineer and export sales manager in ENI and Finmeccanica groups in the UK and Italy.

He holds an MBA from Insead and an MS degree cum laude in Mechanical Engineering from Genoa University.

He is married and has a son.