Marco Delfrate was born in Milan, Italy, in 1965.
He earned a degree in Economics and Business Studies from Università Cattolica (Milan) in 1989.
He served as a Lieutenant in the Guardia di Finanza (the Italian law enforcement agency responsible for dealing with financial crime and smuggling) from 1990 to 1991. From 1991 to 1998, he worked in various departments at Banco Ambrosiano Veneto (Organisation, Administration, Planning and Control), taking charge of Investor Relations from 1993. After the merger with Cariplo, he became Head of Investor Relations at Banca Intesa until 1999. Since then, he’s been Head of Rating Agencies (first at Banca Intesa and then at Intesa Sanpaolo), renamed Rating Agencies and Investor Coverage in October 2014, with responsibility for managing relations with rating agencies and institutional investors.
In April 2018, he became Co-Head of the Financial Market Coverage Dept., that also includes Benchmarking and ESG & Sustainability.
He won IR Magazine’s “Best Investor Relations Officer” award in both 2018 and 2022.
In the survey by Institutional Investor he has ranked first among the Best IR Professionals in the “Europe Combined Banks Sector Ranking” for 6 consecutive years since 2018 and he ranked in the top three for “Best IR Professional” among European Banks since 2013.
