Career Milestones Massimo Tosato has been working for Schroders since 1995. He has been executive vice chairman of the group since 2007, in charge of Distribution globally, as well as CEO of Schroder Investment Management ltd. He was born in Venice, with university education in Rome he then took an MBA at Columbia Business School in 1980. He grew up with a passion for entrepreneurship, in 1981 he founded Cominvest SpA, an investment and private banking company sold several years later to the Cassa di Risparmio di Roma Banco Santo Spirito. He also co-founded Tonic, an advertising company of which he was president from 1982 to 1987, and subsequently Viasat Assistance SpA, co-founded in 1994 and then sold in 1997 to the Telecom Italian Group. He started working for Schroders in 1995 as managing director for Italy, and in 1999 he moved to London, where he was initially responsible for Schroders Investment Management for Continental Europe and the Middle East. He has been Vice President of EFAMA (the European Association for asset management). In 2001 Schroders appointed him global head of retail, and joined the Board of Directors of the listed holding company; in 2004 he became global head of distribution, both institutional and retail. Between 2002 and 2005 he served as an Independent Director of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro SpA. He is member of the International Advisory Board of Columbia Business School in New York, and is a trustee of the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London.
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