Riccardo Pavoncelli, Managing director of debt capital markets, Europe, Morgan Stanley

Riccardo dei Conti Pavoncelli is the younger son of an Italian count. He plays polo, sits at London's finest dinner tables and is married to the daughter of controversial socialite Claus von Bulow. In short, he is an obvious target for gossip columnists.

Riccardo dei Conti Pavoncelli is the younger son of an Italian count. He plays polo, sits at London’s finest dinner tables and is married to the daughter of controversial socialite Claus von Bulow. In short, he is an obvious target for gossip columnists.

Perhaps it is not surprising that in his professional life, Riccardo Pavoncelli keeps a low profile. For a long time he was seen as the quiet man in the background at Morgan Stanley’s capital-markets division behind the more publicly-orientated Michael Dee.

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