Giovanni Bazoli (Brescia, 1932).
Lawyer and University Professor, he taught Administrative law and Institutions of public law at Università Cattolica in Milano. He retired from University teaching in 2001.

Knighted for Services to Industry "Cavaliere del Lavoro" in Italy and "Officier de la Légion d'Honneur" in France.

Current appointments:

Enrico Salza (Turin, 1937)
was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of Intesa Sanpaolo in January 2007.

On 29 April 2004 he was nominated as Chairman of Sanpaolo IMI Group, after having held the office of Deputy Chairman since 2001.

He is an entrepreneur, Chief Executive Officer of Tecno Holding SpA and Chairman of Italconsult S.p.A. Former Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce of Turin and of Unioncamere Piemonte, he was Chief Executive Officer of Cerved until 2002, U.B.S. Director in Italy and Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of "Il Sole 24 Ore" from 1971 to 1989, as well as Director of Compagnia di San Paolo.

He started his professional career in 1980 in McKinsey where he remained for 5 years, followed by a move to CIR, where he occupied the post of General Manager up to 1990. From 1988 to 1995 he was Deputy Chairman of Credito Romagnolo. He then transferred to the publishing sector where he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore and then Deputy Chairman and CEO of the Espresso-Repubblica Group. In 1992 he left publishing to join the Olivetti Group as its Co-CEO.

In 1996 he returned to the banking sector when he was appointed Managing Director and CEO of Banco Ambrosiano Veneto where he remained until he had completed the consolidation with CARIPLO.
In 1998 he took over as CEO of Poste Italiane where he stayed until April 2002.

Pietro Modiano (Milan, 1951)
was appointed General Manager (Deputy to the Managing Director) in charge of the "Banca dei Territori" Division of Intesa Sanpaolo in January 2007.

In November 2004 he was nominated General Manager of Sanpaolo IMI Group, with responsibility for all commercial banking activities.
Prior to this appointment he had been Acting Deputy CEO of Unicredit and Managing Director of both Unicredit Banca d'Impresa and Unicredit Banca Mobiliare, as well as Chairman of Pioneer Investments.

He began his career with Credito Italiano in 1977 in the Planning and Economic Research Department after obtaining a degree cum laude in Economics at the Bocconi University of Milan.

As well as his managerial experience in banking, Mr Modiano has also been Deputy Chairman of The Italian Banking Association and a board director in a number of leading Italian companies including Telecom Italia, Olivetti, e-MID and Borsa Italiana. He is currently Deputy Chairman of PRO MAC , of Banco di Napoli and member of the Executive Committee of The Italian Banking Association.

Francesco Micheli (Rome, 1946)
was appointed General Manager in charge of the Resource Governance of Intesa Sanpaolo in January 2007.

Degree: cum laude in Sociology.

1970 - 1977 Head of Human Resources Administration and from 1973
Head of Human Resources at Technicolor S.p.A.

1977 - 1986 Head of Human Resources, General Services and General Affairs at Tirrena Assicurazioni

1986 - 1990 Head of Human Resources and Organisation at Gucci S.p.A.

1990 - 1993 General Manager of a manufacturing and trading company

1993 - 1997 Head Office Manager of Human and Technical Resources
at Banco di Sardegna

1997 - 1998 Head of Planning and Development of Human Resources and
of Industrial Relations at Gruppo Banca di Roma

1998 - 2002 Head Office Manager of Human Resources at Poste Italiane
and from 2001 also Head of the Territorial Network Division.

Since 2002 Head of Human Resources and Organisation at Banca Intesa S.p.A.