Andrea Merenda, who is the new coo of Banca Popolare di Bari
Here are the objectives and tasks of the new new chief operating officer of Banca Popolare di Bari, Andrea Merenda
The new management team of Banca Popolare di Bari takes shape. The managing director , Giampiero Bergami , has begun to introduce important figures at the top of the Apulian institute, drawing on the market the best resources available.
The objective of the new CEO is both to give a signal of clear discontinuity with the past and to ensure the bank a top management capable of starting a path of recovery and growth. Not an easy task that since yesterday also falls on Andrea Merenda, whom Bergami has chosen as the new chief operating officer.
He was assigned the powers on industrial relations, people development and business organization. The new coo will also have to "coordinate and optimize the operational and planning activities in order to make them more effective and functional for the business," the bank explained in a note. According to qualified banking sources, Merenda has all the credentials to contribute to the definitive recovery and growth of Popolare di Bari.
After an initial experience in a consulting company and then at the Milan transport company (Atm), he entered what was only the embryo of the future Ubi: it was called Bpu and inside there, Merenda (now 46 years old) it has followed the entire development process: from a few thousand employees when it was only BPU to over 20,000 employees in the last phase of Ubi.
In Bpu and then in Ubi she has had a brilliant career (in the field of industrial relations and human resources), the daughter, among other things, of a quality academic path and all in Milan: degree in law at the Statale and then master in business administration at the Politecnico. The Ubi group, the one that Intesa Sanpaolo liked – which last year won it with the Opas strongly desired by the managing director of Ca de 'Sass Carlo Messina – owes a lot to Merenda who has always worked concealed allowing not to seldom for others to reap the fruits of his work.
The move to Popolare di Bari marks, for the former senior manager of Ubi, a significant advance in his career: as coo of the Apulian group he will have to give his contribution for the turning point. Popolare di Bari will propose itself, in the coming years, not only as a fundamental reality for the South of the country as part of the development strategy defined by the shareholder Mcc, but also as an aggregator pole of other small institutes in the southern territory. Fair and highly professional, Merenda has always been appreciated by all Ubi employees by building a loyal relationship by managing industrial relations in a far-sighted manner.
This "entry further strengthens our path of relaunch and growth undertaken also thanks to the new chain of control – Bergami commented yesterday – his skills will consolidate the already positive industrial relations of the Institute, as well as favor the progress of people and territories that Banca Popolare di Bari oversees. Also through this appointment we intend to build a bank capable of making the most of our resources ».
Bergami wants to give Popolare di Bari a leading role in the banking sector and has looked to the market to choose the best resources. The new CEO of Popolare di Bari, esteemed in the sector, will however have to pay particular attention to the political pressures that have always characterized the bank during the Jacobini management and will above all have to watch over his shoulder from those who, from inside the bank, speak a Venetian dialect he moves in the shadows to appear as the deus ex machina of every decision, boasting smoke, between a smile and another, only smoke.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/andrea-merenda-chi-e-il-nuovo-coo-della-banca-popolare-di-bari/ on Tue, 02 Mar 2021 10:19:21 +0000.