Manfredi Catella
Founder & CEO, COIMA
Manfredi Catella is Founder & CEO at COIMA, a specialist in the investment, development and management of Italian real estate assets, focused on delivering an ESG impact. He is shareholder and CEO of COIMA SGR, an investment & asset management firm which manages 30 real estate investment funds with more than €9 bn in investments, and Chairman of the real estate company COIMA REM, a development and property management company founded in 1974. He was responsible for the Italian activities of the US group Hines, and worked for JP Morgan in Milan, Caisse Centrale des Banques Populaires in Paris, Heitman in Chicago and HSBC in Paris. Catella has gained 25 years of experience in the investment management and real estate sectors. Among the development projects realised, Porta Nuova in Milan represents one of the most important real estate developments in Europe, with an investment totalling €2 bn. He is currently President of the Fondazione Riccardo Catella and member of the Advisory Board of Università Bocconi and Assolombarda. Previously he was President of Urban Land Institute in Italy. Catella graduated in Economics from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and holds a master’s in regional planning and real estate from the Polytechnic University of Turin.
