Bio

Viviana Gasparrini is a Principal at Neuberger Berman and former Partner at Fondo Italiano d’Investimento, which she joined in March 2011. Before that, she gained five years’ experience working for the pan-European fund Barclays Private Equity where she concluded several investments in Italian SMEs in various industrial sectors, acting in some cases as board member. Viviana previously worked for several years in the Investment Banking division of Lazard & Co where she was involved, as an Associate, in numerous M&A transactions with focus on the telecommunications and media sector. Viviana graduated with a first class degree in Business Economics from the Bocconi University in Milan.