Unicredit has announced that Paola Zelante joined on March 1. Zelante is based in Milan covering FX sales to Italian financial institutions; she has extensive experience of the Italian market having previously worked at Barclays and Citibank, both in Milan. Locally, she will report to Francesco Gladulich, head of fixed income sales Italy, and globally to Steve Turner, head of FX sales.
Zelante is the third Unicredit sales hire this year. Magdalena Zawisza joined in February to cover East European accounts and to aid the e-commerce rollout to the region. She joined from Toronto Dominion in New York and prior to that was at Lehman Brothers. Lisa LaGalia joined Unicredit New York in January covering hedge fund sales. LaGalia previously spent 10 years at Svenska.