Niccolo Polli was recently appointed Head of Strategy and Planning Europe and Chief of Staff to the Europe CEO and is a sub-regional CEO with banking operations in South Africa, Israel, Armenia and Russia reporting to him directly.
Prior to this Niccolo was CEO of HSBC in Luxembourg and responsible for all of HSBC’s operations covering Private Banking and Wealth Management, Securities Services, Wholesale Banking and Asset Management.
Niccolo joined HSBC Group in 2011 and worked in a variety of roles, including Head of Strategy UK and Chief of Staff to the UK CEO, Deputy to the Head of Global Business Banking and most recently Head of Strategy Europe International, with Armenia, Belgium, Czech Republic and Poland CEOs directly reporting to him.
Prior to joining HSBC, Niccolo had a varied career in finance in the USA, UK, France and Italy before becoming CEO Italy for a large London-based alternative investment management firm.
In both 2020 and 2021, Niccolo was recognised as a Global OUTstanding Top 50 LGBT+ Ally by Yahoo Finance.
Niccolo holds a BSc from Stanford and an MBA from INSEAD, is married, has 3 young children and enjoys playing all types of sports, travelling and spending quality time with the family.