Ambienta SGR renews its Board of Directors and nominates Carla Ferrari (photo) as President. After twelve years as Chairman of the Board of Directors, Antonio Segni hands over the mandate to Carla Ferrari. Alfredo Altavilla has also been appointed to the Board as a non-executive director Ambienta SGR SpA (“Ambienta”), Europe’s largest sustainability-focused investment company, appoints Carla Ferrari as President of the Board of Directors.
Carla Ferrari holds senior positions in a number of Italian blue chip financial institutions. Having previously served as a non-executive director on Ambienta’s board from 2008 to 2012, Carla now takes over the role from Antonio Segni, who is leaving the board after twelve years of service. In addition, Alfredo Altavilla is appointed to the Board as a non-executive director. Altavilla holds a number of key positions in leading Italian and international industrial companies.
Nino Tronchetti Provera, Managing Partner and founder of Ambienta, stated: “I would like to thank the previous Board of Directors for their excellent work. My special thanks go to Antonio Segni, who was Chairman of the Board for twelve years and assumed this role only a few months after Ambienta was founded. At the same time, I welcome the return of Carla Ferrari and extend a warm welcome to Alfredo Altavilla: I am sure that together we will achieve further important goals. I am very pleased to have a woman at the head of Ambienta’s Board of Directors: this is the best start for the next three years, which will play a significant role for the company.”
About Ambienta
Ambienta is a sustainability-focused asset manager with AUM of approximately €1.5 billion and a leader in applying environmental sustainability trends to investments. Ambienta operates from Milan, London and Dusseldorf and focuses on investments in private and public companies driven by environmental megatrends. In the private equity markets, Ambienta manages the largest pool of capital for this strategy in the world and has made thirty-eight investments across Europe in the resource efficiency and environmental sectors.