Davide Serra 

Founding & Managing Partner, Algebris Investments

 

 

Davide co-founded Algebris Investments, a global financials long/short equity fund launched in October 2006.

 

The fund was awarded Best Global Sector Equity Manager in 2007 by Eurohedge and Best Emerging Manager in 2008 at the Alternative Investment News Hedge Fund Industry Awards.

 

Davide has been awarded the Young Global Leader designation by the World Economic Forum and is recognised as one of the World's leading experts on financial services. He has spoken on a number of panels on financial reform including Davos, where he presented on the panel ‘Redesigning Financial Regulation’ in 2010. He is often consulted by the World's Central Bankers and Regulators on policy matters and he regularly contributes to the discourse on financial reform.

 

Prior to Algebris, Davide was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley where he headed the European Banks Research Team and was the Global Banks team coordinator. Davide was rated individually among the top three best European banks analysts for the period 1999-2006. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Davide worked in the top rated UBS Banks research team as a senior analyst (1995-2000) where he lead several IPOs and M&A projects and won major surveys including Institutional Investor and Extel from 1998 till 2000.

 

He is Chairman and Trustee of the Hakuna Matata foundation, a registered UK charity which he founded with his wife in April 2010. The primary focus of the foundation’s work is assisting orphaned children in Central Tanzania; www.hakunamatata-charity.org.

 

Davide is a graduate cum laude of Bocconi University in Italy and holds a Master CEMS. He speaks Italian and is fluent in English and French. Davide played volleyball professionally in Italy from 1985 and 1990 and reached Serie A1. Now he enjoys climbing and off-piste skiing in the Alps and mountains around the world.