Generali Investments Partners has appointed Sandrine Richard as Head of Private Debt, a newly created role aimed to strengthen the competences in private debt within the Generali Real Assets & Private Markets Hub’s, led by Aldo Mazzocco.
A senior investment professional with strong experience in private markets at European level, in her new role Richard is responsible to drive the ambitious development plans that Generali has set for its direct lending business, and to steer the growth of the indirect lending business. She reports to Roberto Marsella, Head of Private Assets at Generali Investments Partners.
Richard brings over 25 years of investment and business development experience in the European asset management industry. She joins from Muzinich, where she steered the European and French senior secured and private debt strategy in senior leadership roles, contributing to launching and managing private debt funds with robust ESG processes. Prior to that, she covered senior roles at AXA Investment Managers, including leading the private debt investment team, and at Exane.