Giuseppe Rossano Latorre
Managing Partner | CEO
Bio
Giuseppe Latorre is a Managing Partner at Kitra Advisory with around thirty years’ experience in corporate finance and M&A. Early in his career, he specialised in the banking and insurance sector. As a financial advisor, he handled around one hundred M&A deals worth over €20 billion. The majority of these were cross-border transactions involving takeover bids on listed companies, as well as valuations, bond and share issues, rating processes, and the drafting of business plans for leading financial institutions.
Recognised as one of the leading experts in the Italian insurance market, Giuseppe has worked on almost all insurance transactions over the last twenty years, completing more than fifty deals, as well as a significant number of international deals in Europe and Asia.
Prior to founding Kitra, he was an equity partner at KPMG Advisory for approximately twenty years, heading the Italian Corporate Finance team for ten of those years. He also held leadership roles at EMA and global levels for KPMG since 2018. Giuseppe previously worked at Lehman Brothers.
Positions Held
Giuseppe is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of NET Insurance S.p.A. (Poste Group – Italian Post) and sits on the Board of Directors of Fandango S.p.A. He was previously a member of the Board of Directors of AIAF (the Italian Association for Financial Analysis).
Education and qualifications
Giuseppe is a Chartered Accountant, registered with the ODCEC (Order of Chartered Accountants) in Milan since 1997. He is also an auditor (since 1999) and an expert appraiser at the Court of Milan (since 2003). He has a degree in Business Economics from L. Bocconi University in Milan, and completed KPMG’s Insurance programme at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2013), as well as the INSEAD C25 Insurance Executive MBA organised by KPMG International (2014). He also obtained an IMScEC diploma from the Rotterdam School of Management. He is the author of La Valutazione delle Assicurazioni (Insurance Valuation), published by Egea in 2014.
