Fabio FUSCO

Managing Director, Global Corporate and Investment Banking, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Fabio Fusco is Managing Director within the Global Corporate & Investment Banking line of business of Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He joined BAML in May 2019 and before that Fabio was for 5 years a Partner of JAB Holding, a privately held group focused on long term investments. In this period, JAB Assets under management increased from US$ 40bn to US$ 100bn, while net return stands at 18%+. Fabio led the exit from Luxury and co-piloted the development of the multi-brand fast casual restaurants platform. Previously Fabio has spent 20 years in retail and luxury, in successively senior financial positions:

• in 2003 he was CFO for IT Holding SpA where he was responsible for major financial

restructuring and disposals;

• in May 2005 he joined Bally International Ltd as Chief Financial Officer and was

responsible for managing the transfer of ownership of Bally International from TPG to JAB

Luxury in 2008.

• In 2010 became CFO of JAB Luxury. During his tenure he co-piloted the acquisition of

Belstaff and Jimmy Choo in 2011, and led Jimmy Choo flotation in 2014.

Fabio is a graduate of LUISS University in Rome where he read economics and finance and a Harvard alumnus, having successfully completed the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development (PMD78) in 2003.