About Us
Vision
CIV – Compagnia per l’Innovazione e per i Valori S.r.l. (i.e. CIV – Company for Innovation and Values) aims to pursue the integral development of individuals and achieve, protect and preserve the Common Good.
Mission
CIV is a private sector actor established to take up the challenge of realizing the Common Good.
CIV is a cultural experience engaged in the study of the multidimensionality of capital and the analysis of socio-economic practices and shifts in the use of currency as a tool for community development.
CIV is an economic entity that intends to produce social innovation by building economies (in plural) and presiding over capital markets to capture sources of knowledge.
With such ambitions CIV enters the competitive world of market finance, corporate finance, and social finance to redirect the use of capital through transformation.
History
CIV is a Multi Family Office established in Milan in 2013 from the experience that its founder has gained within leading international banking and financial institutions, combined with a firm commitment to promote responsible finance among high net worth individuals and enterprises as well as leaders of social and environmental innovation.
CIV oversees a group of entirely controlled companies active in European and pan-European jurisdictions under a framework designed to meet the investment and corporate advisory needs expressed by institutions, enterprises and families.
CIV is a fully private and fully independent organization conceived to systematically achieve the objectives of wealth management, preservation and planning by serving a restricted number of families and enterprises.
CORE SERVICES
CIV has structured its activities to provide highly cost-efficient services and supervision:
- Market analysis and dedicated research;
- Asset allocation & risk management;
- Corporate finance, M&A & corporate restructuring;
- Corporate governance;
- Social & Environmental Impact;
- Control, supervision and financial consolidation;
Alessandro Nitti
Founder & Social Entrepreneur
Graduated in Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore followed by a Master’s degree in Arbitrage Trading from New York University.
He worked for two decades in two leading banking institutions, moving between Vienna, Milan, London and New York, gaining experience in roles of increasing responsibility as an insider within the investment banking division of Banca Intesa and JPMorgan. His career path led him to shift from market making of non-government bonds to debt and equity capital markets and from over-the-counter equity derivatives to private equity.
In September 2012 he left JPMorgan to pursue personal projects related to social entrepreneurship. Since then, he has been leading CIV – Compagnia per l’Innovazione e per i Valori, an economic venture enriched by ethical values.
Enrico Parretta
Board Member & General Manager
Graduated in Banking, Finance and Insurance Sciences from Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore followed by a Master’s degree in Financial Risk Management from Politecnico di Milano.
After 25 years of experience in Italy and abroad, first in auditing/consultancy firms and later in insurance groups, focusing on internal audit and governance systems, in 2021 he joined CIV as a Board Member and General Manager.
He is visiting professor of “Management of Insurance Companies” at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, as well as a lecturer in various courses and master’s degrees in insurance and governance topics.
He is the author of “Controllo interno e assicurazioni” (i.e. “Internal Control and Insurance”, FrancoAngeli, 2007) and of “Strategia e Governance nel business assicurativo” (i.e. “Strategy and Governance in insurance business”, Educatt, 2020).
Francesco Tam
Board Member & Chief Investment Officer
Graduated in Economics from the University of Bologna followed by a Master’s degree in International Finance from Consorzio Pavese degli Studi Post Universitari.
In 1997 he started his career in Cofiri SIM, wholly owned by the Ministry of the Treasury. Since 2000 he continued his professional growth in leading Italian banks and international investment funds with roles of increasing responsibility in government bond trading, fixed income derivatives and credit structures, as well as corporate finance.
In 2018 he joined CIV as a Board Member and Chief Investment Officer.
He is lecturer of the postgraduate program “Financial Maths” of the Faculty of Mathematics, at the University of Bologna.