Bank of Valletta has announced the appointment of a C-Level position, regulatory approval of a Non-Executive Director, and the appointment of an Executive Director.
Anatoli Grech
BOV announced it is appointing Anatoli Grech (main image) as Executive Director of the bank, with regulatory approval already having been obtained.
Mr Grech holds the position of BOV Group Chief Compliance Officer. He previously held the position of Head of Strategy and Regulatory Affairs at BOV Asset Management Limited (BOVAM).
Mr Grech is also a member of the bank’s Executive Committee, as well as various other bank and Group committees. Mr Grech is a Director on the Board of BOVAM and the Chair of the Risk and Regulatory Committee of BOVAM and BOV Fund Services Limited. Mr Grech is a member of the MAPFRE MSV Life plc Risk and Regulatory Committee.
He is also a member of the Markets Regulation Committee and Prudential and Supervision Committee of the European Savings and Retail Banking Group and a member of the WSBI-ESBG Task Force on AML.
Simon Azzopardi
BOV also announced the appointment of Simon Azzopardi as Chief Personal and Wealth Officer, adding that regulatory approval has already been obtained.
In his role, Mr Azzopardi is primarily responsible for the Branch Network, Investment Centres, Private Banking, Wealth Management and Digital Channels.
Mr Azzopardi first joined Bank of Valletta in 1987.
He has served in various areas within BOV, including the retail network, corporate lending, strategic planning, and marketing. During his career at the bank, he has occupied various senior positions in Risk Management, International Corporate Centre and in Wealth Management.
In 2021, Mr Azzopardi was appointed as Chief Wealth Management Officer and became a member of the bank’s Executive Committee. He is currently a Director on the Board of BOV Fund Services Limited, a subsidiary of Bank of Valletta.
Mr Azzopardi holds a degree Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) in Banking & Finance from the University of Malta, and an MSc in International Securities, Investment and Banking from the University of Reading. He is also an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers.
Nicola Angeli
Following the appointment of Nicola Angeli as Non-Exec Director in May, BOV has announced that regulatory approval has been obtained.
He has extensive knowledge of the European banking sector, accumulated in over 10 years of experience working on transactions in the private and public markets. Based in Italy, he started his career in the Debt Capital Markets team of UniCredit S.p.A., where he assisted medium and large corporates in the execution of financing transactions in the fixed-income market. In 2015 he moved to his current position in the Group M&A and Corporate Development team, where his responsibilities focus on the carrying out of M&A proprietary transactions for the UniCredit Group.
Mr Angeli was involved in several transformational inorganic projects, including both M&A and capital markets deals. Mr Angeli has a significant knowledge of the European financial sector across several geographies (e.g. Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe) and sectors (e.g. retail and corporate banking, investment banking, consumer finance and other product factories). He has a master degree cum laude in Banking, Business and Financial Markets and a bachelor of science cum laude in Economics, both from the University of Trento (Italy).
